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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1980–1989

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1983

#12852

The dentist and the empress: The adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in gas-lit Paris.

EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
CARSON, Gerald Hewes (1899 – 1989)
CARSON, Gerald Hewes (1899 – 1989)

"Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a Philadelphia dentist of pioneering skill and great charm, moved in the highest circles of France's Second Empire. His expertise gave American dentistry a special distinction, while his discreti…

1983

#12956

Constantini Liber de coitu: El tratado de andrología de Constantino el Africano. Edited by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN (CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS) (1015 – 1087) MONTERO CARTELLE, Enrique

1983

#13021

The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.

GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven

1983 –1984

#13716

Health sciences in early Islam. Collected papers by Sami K. Hamarneh. Edited by Munawar A. Anees. 2 vols.

HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010) ANEES, Munawar A.

1983

#13975

Metallothionein - human GH fusion genes stimulate growth of mice.

BRINSTER, Ralph Lawrence (1932 – )
BRINSTER, Ralph Lawrence (1932 – ) PALMITER, Richard (1942 – )

Brinster and Palmiter created the first "transgenic" animals, transferring non-native genes into mice through genetic engineering techniques. The cover of the issue of Science magazine in which this paper was publishe…

1983

#13989

Expression of chimaeric genes transferred into plant cells using a Ti-plasmid-derived vector.

SCHELL, Baron Jozef Stefaan "Jeff" (1935 – 2003) VAN MONTAGU, Baron Marc (1933 – ) & et al.

Schell and Montagu discovered the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering in…

1983

#14140

Mammalian beta-adrenergic receptors. Structural differences in beta 1 and beta 2 subtypes revealed by peptide maps.

LEFKOWITZ, Robert Joseph (1943 – )
LEFKOWITZ, Robert Joseph (1943 – ) STILES, Gary L. STRASSER, Ruth H. CARON, Marc G. (1946 – 2022)

Lefkowitz and colleagues showed that there are two different types of beta receptors, distinguishing them as Beta-1 and Beta-2. They noticed that each has specific pharmacological characteristics. Order of authorship …

1983

#14212

Evidence for plasmid mediated toxin production in Bacillus anthracis.

MIKESELL, Oliver H. Perry (1952 – 2002)
IVINS, Bruce Edwards (1946 – 2008)
IVINS, Bruce Edwards (1946 – 2008) RISTROPH, Joseph David (1942 – 2011) & et al.

The authors illustrated and proved that “heating V770-NPI-R containing anthrax strains, to exactly 42.5 degrees centigrade, as Pasteur and colleagues reported in GM 14211, essentially ‘cured’ these strains of their pl…

1983

#14254

Cyclin: A protein specified by maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs that is destroyed at each cleavage division.

HUNT, Sir Richard Timothy (1943 – ) EVANS, Tom ROSENTHAL, Eric T. YOUNGBLOOM, Jim DISTEL, Daniel

"It was at Woods Hole around July 1982, using Arbacia sea urchin eggs as his model organism, that he discovered cyclin proteins.[12] Cyclins play a key role in regulating the cell-division cycle.[16] Hunt was observin…

1984

#461.4

Early history of human anatomy, from antiquity to the beginning of the modern era.

PERSAUD, T. Vidhya N.

1984

#1588.20

Science and medicine in France. The emergence of experimental physiology, 1790-1855.

LESCH, John E. (1945 – )

1984

#2068.20

The history of lithium therapy.

JOHNSON, F. Neil

1984

#2068.21

Electricity and medicine: A history of their interaction.

ROWBOTTOM, Margaret SUSSKIND, Charles (1921 – 2004)

1984

#2663

Galen on respiration and the arteries. An edition with English translation and commentary of De usu respirationis, An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, and De causis respirationis, by David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) FURLEY, David John (1922 – 2010) WILKIE, James S.

Galen's system of medicine based on the minutiae of pulse variations persisted into the 18th century.

1984

#3415.21

The hearing aid: its operations and development. Third edition.

BERGER, Kenneth W.

Includes a comprehensive listing of manufacturers and the models each produced.

1984

#5766.7

Tissue expansion in soft-tissue reconstruction.

RADOVAN, Chadomir (1932 – 1984)

1984

#6501.3

Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

1984

#6742.1

Dictionary of American medical biography. Edited by Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, and Todd L. Savitt. 2 vols.

KAUFMAN, Martin (1940 – ) SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – ) GALISHOFF, Stuart (1940 – )

1984

#6742.11

Dutch medical biography. A biographical dictionary of Dutch physicians and surgeons 1475-1975.

LINDEBOOM, Gerrit Arie (1905 – 1986)

1984

#6551.3

A portrait of Irish medicine. An illustrated history of medicine in Ireland.

O’BRIEN, Eoin CROOKSHANK, Anne WOLSTENHOLME, Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward (1913 – 2004)

Published for the bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

1984

#6556.1

La médecine à Paris du XIIIe au XXe siècle.

PECKER, André (1902 – 1994)

A collective work, edited by Pecker, superbly illustrated. Includes Paul Dumaître, "La Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris,"

1984

#6565.01

Storia d’ltalia. Vol. 7: Malattia e medicina.

PERUTA, Franco Della (1924 – 2012)

A collective work, edited by della Peruta.

1984

#6668

CANADIAN BULLETIN OF MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-

1984 –2000

#6584.1

Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine: A bibliography. 2 vols.

ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)

Vol. 2 was co-edited with Jacques Bernier.

1984

#6584.2

Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.

ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)

1984

#6603.7

Historia general de medicina en México: México antiguo. Edited by Fernando Cortés. Tomo I.

CORTÉS, Fernando Martinez (1922 – )

1984

#258.13

Evolution: The history of an idea.

BOWLER, Peter J. (1944 – )
BOWLER, Peter J. (1944 – )

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 2009.

1984

#6997

Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.

GALLO, Robert Charles (1937 – )
GALLO, Robert Charles (1937 – ) POPOVIC, Mikulas & et al.

Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …

1984

#7008

Modern drug use: An enquiry on historical principles.

MANN, Ronald David (1928 – 2013)

1984

#7053

The Caribbean slave: A biological history.

KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)

1984

#7189

Medical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)

Anthology of selections from the writings of some of the more famous English physician travellers.

1984

#7272

The origins of modern humans: A world survey of the fossil evidence.

SPENCER, Frank (1941 – 1999) SMITH, Fred H.

An historical and analytical review of the literature up to 1984, with detailed bibliographies, by several outstanding authorities, edited by Smith and Spencer. Includes, pp. 411-483, Milford H. Wolpott, Wu Xin Zhi, a…

1984

#7428

DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.

HIGUCHI, Russell RYDER, Oliver Allison III

Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…

1984

#8411

The poet-physician: Keats and medical science.

GOELLNICHT, Donald (1953 – )

For the edition of John Keats' medical and physiological notebook see No. 6622.1.

1984

#8460

Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.

IBN RIDWAN AL-MISRI, Abu'l Hassan Ali (988 – 1061) DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )

1984

#8529

The book of medical experiences attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra. Edited and translated by Joshua O. Leibowitz and Schlomo Marcus.

LEIBOWITZ, Joshua O. (1895 – 1993)
IBN EZRA, Abraham ben Meir (Abenezra or Aben Ezra) (1089 – 1167)
IBN EZRA, Abraham ben Meir (Abenezra or Aben Ezra) (1089 – 1167) MARCUS, Schlomo

1984

#8622

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.

CASSEDY, James H. (1919 – 2007)

1984

#8624

Understanding the liver: A history.

CHEN, Thomas S. CHEN, Peter S.

1984

#8636

The history of the health care sciences and health care, 1700-1980: A selective annotated bibliography.

ERLEN, Jonathon

1984

#8789

Modern Chinese medicine: Vol. 1: Chinese surgery: A comprehensive review of surgery in the People's Republic of China Vol. 2: Chinese medicine: A comprehensive review of medicine in the People's Republic of China. Vol. 3: Chinese health care: A comprehensive review of health services in the People's Republic of China. Edited by He-Guang Wu and Rui-Tu Ran.

WU, He-Guang RAN, Rui-Tu

1984

#9044

Historia general de la medicina en México: Medicina novohispana siglo XVI.

BELTRÁN, Gonzalo Aguirre (1908 – 1996)

1984

#9098

The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.

ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322) BARNES, Jonathan (1942 – )

Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…

1984 –2013

#9359

Edizioni nationale delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani. 30 vols.

SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)
SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799)

Includes the correspondence and previously unpublished manuscripts. A description of this set is available from the publisher at this link.

1984

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – ) MALONEY, Gilles FROHN, Willie

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

1984

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) BRUNI CELLI, Blas (1925 – 2013)

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

1984

#9979

Culture, health and illness.

HELMAN, Cecil G. (1944 – 2009)

Revised and expanded fifth edition, London: Hodder Arnold, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in healt…

1984

#10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.

CAMPION, Frank D.

1984

#10243

Secret passions, secret remedies: Narcotic drugs in British Society, 1820-1930.

PARSSINEN, Terry M.

"....The major orientation is to opium, with two chapters on its alkaloid, morphine, occasional references to cocaine, and a mention of heroin. There is an enlightening discussion of reasons for the initial acceptance…

1984

#10298

Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.

BRIDGFORTH, Lucie Robertson

1984

#10302

Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,

CARROLL, Douglas