1990–1999
810 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1997
#7722
Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.
A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.
1997
#7969
Landmarks in cardiac surgery. By Stephen Westaby, with Cecil Bosher.
History and biographical sketches, plus reprints of key papers.
1997
#8014
The history of the United States Army Medical Service Corps.
From the American revolution to 1994.
1997
#8051
The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.
1997
#8168
Gallica: La bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Gallica includes printed materials, graphic materials, and sound recordings. These materials are royalty-free and available free of charge when used strictly for private purposes. http://gallica.bnf.fr/
1997
#8169
Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek.
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ "Since 1997, the Munich Digitization Center has been offering the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) on the Internet. It is the central innovation and production unit…
1997
#8225
Corpus Galenicum: Verzeichnis der galenischen und pseudogalenischen Schriften.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
Revised edition 12/2012 is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publications/Galen-Bibliographie_2012_08_28.pdf
1997
#8226
Corpus Hippocraticum: Verzeichnis der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Schriften.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf
1997
#8237
Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.
1997
#8264
The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.
1997
#8273
Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.
1997
#8544
Iroquois medical botany.
"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…
1997
#8629
The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.
1997
#8734
Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.
1997
#8749
Moving questions: A history of membrane transport and bioenergetics.
"This book describes half a century of progress in two mainstream areas of biological research: membrane transport, initially a focus of physiologists, and oxidative phosphorylation, initially a focus of biochemists. …
1997
#8862
A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.
1997
#9060
Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.
1997
#9137
Law and the American health care system.
Second revised edition, 2012, with extensive discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
1997
#9344
Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
1997
#9364
The illustrated Yellow Emperor's canon of medicine. Compiled and illustrated by Zhou Chuncai and Han Yazhou.
Text in Chinese and English. A very accessible illustrated popularization— almost in the style of a comic book— of the Yellow Emperor's classic.
1997
#9369
Dieting for an emperor: A translation of books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations with an introduction and commentary by Mark Grant.
1997
#9371
De la gymnastique aux sports modernes: Histoire des doctrines de l'éducation physique.
1997
#9385
A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
1997
#9407
Kindly medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911.
"Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines …
1997
#9457
Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
Second edition, significantly revised and expanded, 2016.
1997
#9463
The powerful placebo: From ancient priest to modern physician.
1997
#9596
California Digital Library.
http://www.cdlib.org "The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being pu…
1997
#9609
Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.
1997
#9910
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…
1997
#9936
Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.
By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.
1997
#10030
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
1997
#10169
Life in the balance: Emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death.
1997
#10247
Battle station sick bay: Navy medicine in World War II.
1997
#10361
Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.
1997
#11050
Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.
1997
#11069
Science is not a quiet life: Unravelling the atomic mechanism of haemoglobin.
Reprints landmark papers with commentary by Perutz.
1997
#11408
The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Blattner, Plunkett, Bloch.... Complete genome sequence of E. coli, the first complete genome sequence of an organism. Following p. 1462 there are two large, unpaginated…
1997
#11822
The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
1997
#11968
Gardens of empire: Botanical institutions of the Victorian British Empire.
Provides "a detailed analysis of the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120 botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras, Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to M…
1997
#12020
Medicine and morals in the enlightenment: John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush.
"Modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world is commonly thought to derive from the medical philosophy of the Scotsman John Gregory (1725-1773) and his younger associates, the English Dissenter Thomas Percival…
1997
#12070
The changing face of death. Historical accounts of death and disposal.
1997
#12128
U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.
Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…
1997
#12172
John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].
1997
#12326
A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.
1997
#12360
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
1997
#12367
A century of arterial hypertension: 1896-1996. Edited by Nicholas Postel-Vinay in collaboration with the International Society of Hypertension. Translated by Richard Edelstein and Christopher Coffin.
1997
#12759
Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.
Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the mo…
1997
#12849
Histoire de l'orthodontie.
1997
#12856
Historia de l'odontologia.
1997
#13054
Five centuries of veterinary medicine: A short-title catalog of the Washington State University Veterinary History Collection.
Checklist of over 1800 books, journals, manuscripts, illustrations, and other rare documents.