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1990–1999

810 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1996

#7458

Bright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.

1996

#7493

The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.

1996

#7520

Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives.

1996

#7532

Kunst & Medizin: Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh.

1996

#7779

Respiratory physiology: People and ideas, edited by John B. West.

1996

#7794

Final report of the Advisory Committee on human radiation experiments.

Report of "an intensive inquiry into the history of government-sponsored human radiation experiments and intentional environmental releases of radiation that occurred between 1944 and 1974. We have studied the ethical…

1996

#7827

From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in art in eighteenth century Britain.

1996

#7856

American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.

1996

#7900

EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period. 1-

Articles from recent issues may be viewed at http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/15733823/21/5.

1996

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

1996

#7975

Information retrieval: A health care perspective.

Third edition as Information retrieval: A health and biomedical perspective (2009).

1996

#8010

Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.

1996

#8052

Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.

1996

#8113

PubMed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ "PubMed comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of bi…

1996

#8116

Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/index.php From the Wikipedia article on the Internet Archive, accessed 12-2016: "The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access…

1996

#8196

Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog. Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK).

http://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/?digitalOnly=0&embedFulltitle=0&newTab=0 The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a meta search engine for the detection of several hundred million media in library and book trade catalogs …

1996

#8214

Health care in Java: past and present. Edited by Peter Boomgaard, Rosalia Sciortino and Ines Smyth.

1996

#8319

Ancient Egyptian medicine.

This is the best comparatively brief, but sufficiently detailed, survey in English.

1996

#8602

The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.

1996

#8626

The Wellcome Trust illustrated history of tropical diseases. Edited by F. E. G. Cox.

1996

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1996

#8661

Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…

1996

#8688

The shaping of a profession: Physicians in Norway, past and present. Edited by Ivind Larsen and Bent Olav Olsen.

1996

#8717

The botanical garden of Padua 1545-1995. Translated by Gus Barker.

1996

#8728

Medicina in nummis: Die Heilkunde im Spiegel der Medaillen.

1996

#8766

Fritz Spiegl's sick notes: An alphabetical browsing book of medical derivations, abbreviations mnemonics and slang for amusement and edification of medics, nurses, patients and hypochondriacs.

Both serious and humorous; illustrated with cartoons.

1996

#8872

Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.

Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…

1996

#8926

Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.

"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…

1996

#9056

Geschichte der Alternativen Medizin: Von der Volksmedizin zu den unkonventionellen Therapien von heute.

1996

#9162

Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.

"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…

1996

#9201

The microscope in the Dutch Republic: The shaping of discovery.

Focusing on Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the author demonstrates that their uneasiness with their social circumstances spurred their discoveries. Ruestow argues that while aspects of Dutch culture impede…

1996

#9235

The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.

"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…

1996

#9290

Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.

1996

#9299

Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.

1996

#9327

The origin and evolution of birds.

On the evolution of birds and avian flight. Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the hypothesis, accepted by many paleontologists, that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are the…

1996

#9426

Photographic atlas of Civil War injuries. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Otis Historical Archives.

1996

#9427

Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.

1996

#9428

Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.

1996

#9435

Medicine, society and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.

1996

#9605

The wonderful art of the eye: A critical edition of the Middle English translation of his De probatissima arte oculorum, edited by L. M. Eldredge.

1996

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1996

#9772

Government and health care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979.

1996

#9787

Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.

1996

#9800

Veterinary medicine: An illustrated history.

1996

#10019

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 2ème partie: Airs, eaux, lieux. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

1996

#10058

A midwife through the dying process: Stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life.

1996

#10120

The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.

"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…

1996

#10174

Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.

1996

#10288

Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.

1996

#10435

The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.