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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1980–1989

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1986

#6551.4

Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.

GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven

A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.

1986

#6357.9

Historical aspects of pediatric surgery. Prog. pediat. Surg., 20.

RICKHAM, Peter Paul (1917 – 2003)

Well-documented illustrated series of historical articles by various authors.

1986

#6786.30

A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

KESHAVARZ, Fatemeh (1952 – )

1986

#6786.31

The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts

WYGANT, Larry J. BLOCKER, Truman Graves Jr. (1809 – 1984)

Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..

1986

#6786.32

The finest instruments ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature; 1700-1939.

DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006) DREYFUSS, Mark S.

1986

#6810

The Oxford companion to medicine. 2 vols.

WALTON, Sir John Nicholas (1922 – 2016) BEESON, Paul Bruce (1908 – 2006) SCOTT, Sir Ronald Bodley (1906 – 1982)

A dictionary, biographical dictionary, and encyclopedia covering selected aspects of the theory, practice and profession of medicine, including history, by the editors and 150 notable contributors. Produced in the sty…

1986

#6979

Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.

SPENCER, Frank (1941 – 1999)

1986

#7213

Specific enzymatic amplification of DNA in vitro: The polymerase chain reaction.

MULLIS, Kary Banks (1944 – 2019)
MULLIS, Kary Banks (1944 – 2019)

Improvements that Mullis made to the polymerase chain reaction in 1983 enabled PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel la…

1986

#7283

The origin of the human race.

ALEKSEYEV, Valery Pavlovich (ALEXEEV) (1929 – 1991)

First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…

1986

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

DARNTON, Robert Choate (1939 – )
DARNTON, Robert Choate (1939 – )

1986

#7432

Caring and curing: Health and medicine in the Western religious tradition. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Darrel W. Amundsen.

NUMBERS, Ronald L. (1942 – )
NUMBERS, Ronald L. (1942 – ) AMUNDSEN, Darrel W.

1986

#7475

Opere scientifiche. Traduzione integrale dai testi originali. Coordinatore Luciano Casella. Revisione e note a cura di Enrico Coturri. 2 vols.

STENO, Nicolas [Niels Steensen, Nicholaus Stenonis] (1638 – 1686)

Steno's collected works translated from Latin into Italian. Reproduces Steno's original engraved illustrations, plus others from the time (some in color).

1986

#7680

Natural history and the new world, 1524-1770. An annotated bibliography of printed materials in the library of the American Philosophical Society.

GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )

1986

#7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

1986

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

CARNEGIE, Mary Elizabeth (1916 – 2008)

1986

#8213

Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

CROSBY, Alfred W. Jr. (1931 – 2018)

Revised edition, 2004.

1986

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

1986

#8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) BRAIN, Peter

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

1986

#8368

Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.

NOONAN, John T. Jr.

1986

#8549

Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.

KRISTELLER, Paul Oskar (1905 – 1999)

1986

#8606

The man behind the syndrome.

BEIGHTON, Peter H. (1934 – )
BEIGHTON, Peter H. (1934 – ) BEIGHTON, Greta

Portraits and biographies, emphasizing genetic syndromes. Followed by the authors' The person behind the syndrome (1997).

1986

#8647

Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.

FOX, Daniel M. (1938 – )

1986

#8666

Inventing the NIH: Federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937.

HARDEN, Victoria Angela
HARDEN, Victoria Angela

1986

#8695

The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide.

LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )
LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )

"The first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps" (Wikipedia).

1986

#8743

Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.

QUÉTEL, Claude (1939 – )

Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

1986

#9331

Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.

NAHMIAS, André J. (1930 – ) WEISS, Juan E. (1952 – ) YAO, X. KANKI, Phyllis J. ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – )

Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…

1986

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )

1986

#9464

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

WARNER, John Harley (1953 – )

1986

#9536

A history and theory of informed consent.

FADEN, Ruth R. (1949 – ) BEAUCHAMP, Tom L. (1939 – )

"In collaboration with Nancy M. P. King."

1986

#9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

MCGOVERN, Constance M.

1986

#9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

GALMICHE, Jean-Marie (1943 – )

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.

1986

#9939

Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.

HORVITZ, Howard Robert (1947 – ) ELLIS, Hilary M.

Using C. elegans to investigate whether there was a genetic program controlling cell death, or apoptosis, In 1986, Horvitz identified the first "death genes", ced-3 and ced-4. He showed that functional ced-3 and ced-4…

1986

#9998

Medical care and the general practitioner 1750-1850.

LOUDON, Irvine (1924 – 2015)

1986

#10009

L'Art dentaire à travers la peinture.

BARON, Pierre BARON, Armelle

1986

#10095

Who goes first? The story of self-experimentation in medicine.

ALTMAN, Lawrence K. (1937 – )

1986

#10201

The Visible Human Project.

U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html "The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional repre…

1986

#10351

The end of life: Euthanasia and morality.

RACHELS, James W. (1941 – 2003)

Full text available from Jamesrachels.org at this link.

1986

#10649

Theories of human evolution: A century of debate, 1844-1944.

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

1986

#10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

CLAVEL, François GUÉTARD, D. BRUN-VEZINET, François & et al.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…

1986

#10843

Fatal familial insomnia and dysautonomia with selective degeneration of thalamic nuclei.

LUGARESI, Elio (1926 – 2015) MEDORI, Rosella GAMBETTI, Pierluigi & et al.

The authors coined the name Fatal Familial Insomnia to describe a family cohort of individuals who were dying from a prion illness causing an inability to sleep. This disease has been characterized as one of the most …

1986

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998)

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…

1986

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

HARVEY, Abner McGehee (1911 – 1998) ABRAMS, Susan L.

1986

#11042

The T4 glycoprotein is a cell-surface receptor for the AIDS virus.

MCDOUGAL, J. S. MADDON, P. J.
DALGLEISH, A. G.
DALGLEISH, A. G. & et al.

Order of authorship in the original paper: McDougal, Maddon, Dalgleish. The authors discovered that the T4 lymphocyte cell has an outer glycoprotein on its surface that specifically acts as the receptor for HIV. Witho…

1986

#11106

Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.

YARCHOAN, Robert (1950 – )
YARCHOAN, Robert (1950 – ) WEINHOLD, Kent James LYERLY, Herbert Kim & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1986

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

PARK, Bert Edward

1986

#11323

Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.

CASSEDY, James H. (1919 – 2007)

"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)

1986

#11476

New perspectives on the medical consequences of nuclear war.

LEAF, Alexander (1920 – 2012)

Leaf helped found Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in 1961 and became a prominent member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). This paper highlighted "new research on estimat…

1986

#11518

The library of Dr. John Webster: The making of a seventeenth century radical. Medical History supplement no. 6. Edited by Peter Elmer.

ELMER, Peter WEBSTER, John (1610 – 1682)

1986

#11635

The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.

CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) OGDEN, Henry Vining (1857 – 1931) WEISTROP, Leonard

Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.

1986

#11851

Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.

CARMICHAEL, Anne G.

"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…