1990–1999
810 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1998
#13286
Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts.
Thomson and collaborators first isolated embryonic stem cells from human blastocysts. Order of authorship in original publication: Thomson, Itskovitz-Eldor, Shapiro et al. Available online from science.sciencemag.org …
1998
#13294
Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.
1998
#13325
The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.
1998
#13599
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise on Med…
1998 –2005
#13718
Geschichte der Pharmazie. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Von Rudolf Schmitz. Unter Mitarbeit von F.-J. Kuhlen. Band II: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Von Christoph Friedrich und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.
1998
#13807
The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.
This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.
1998
#13957
Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans.
The authors reported that tiny snippets of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) effectively shut down specific genes, driving the destruction of messenger RNA (mRNA) with sequences matching the dsRNA. As a result, the mRNA can…
1998
#13977
Derivation of pluripotent stem cells from cultured human primordial germ cells.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Shamblott, Axelman,... Gearheart. Gearheart led the team that successfully developed human embryonic germ cells, pluripotent stem cells derived from primordial germ cel…
1998
#14153
Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor
"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…
1998
#14251
DARPP-32: Regulator of the efficacy of dopaminergic neurotransmission.
"Greengard's research focused on events inside the neuron caused by neurotransmitters. Specifically, Greengard and his fellow researchers studied the behavior of second messenger cascades that transform the docking of…
1998
#14264
CYCLE Is a Second bHLH-PAS Clock Protein Essential for Circadian Rhythmicity and Transcription of Drosophila period and timeless.
In 1998 Rosbach, Hall and colleagues discovered the cycle gene, clock gene, and cryptochrome photoreceptor in Drosophila through the use of forward genetics, by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then det…
1998
#14332
The structure of the potassium channel: Molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity.
The authors determined the first high resolution structure of an ion channel, called KcsA from the bacterium Streptomyces lividans. The structure that they revealed was perfectly adapted to allow entry of potassium io…
1999
#7032
Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.
Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…
1999
#7083
Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.
1999
#7104
Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.
1999
#7153
Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
1999 –2002
#7216
A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.
Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.
1999
#7371
Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.
1999
#7379
From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.
1999
#7535
Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.
1999
#7546
Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)
Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…
1999
#7562
Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
Spectacular color images including many of original paintings and manuscripts.
1999
#7616
Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.
1999
#7640
Das Anatomische Museum Basel: Museumsführer.
1999
#7833
Histoire de la médecine en Arménie: De l'antiquité à nos jours.
Translated into English as The history Armenian medicine from antiquity to the present day (2007).
1999
#7838
Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.
1999
#7890
Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.
1999
#7914
VIRUS. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin. 1-
Contents of recent issues may be viewed at http://www.sozialgeschichte-medizin.org/wp_verein/?page_id=57.
1999
#7973
MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching.
Second edition, 2006.
1999
#8053
Medicine and society in early modern Europe.
Second edition, 2010.
1999
#8069
An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.
1999
#8078
... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.
1999
#8141
The American medical ethics revolution: How the AMA's code of ethics has transformed physicians' relationships to patients, professionals, and society.
1999 –2014
#8182
Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident : Tome 1: Antiquité et Moyen Age. Tome 2: De la Renaissance aux Lumières. Tome 3: Du romantisme à la science moderne. Edited by Mirko Grmek.
1999
#8284
Ancient histories of medicine: Essays in medical doxography and historiography in classical antiquity, edited by Philip J. van der Eijk.
"...focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristi…
1999
#8337
Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.
1999
#8511
Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.
Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).
1999
#8563
Albertus Magnus, On animals: A medieval summa zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols.
1999
#8608
Cardiology: The evolution of the science and the art. Second edition.
1999
#8625
Nurturing children: A history of pediatrics
1999
#8694
The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
1999
#8698
Time to heal: American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care.
1999
#8721
Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine.
1999
#8722
The surgeon's stage: A history of the operating room.
Perhaps the only book on this special subject; numerous illustrations, mostly in color.
1999
#8752
Four centuries of clinical chemistry.
The first in-depth study of the development of this field that had such a profound impact on patient care beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.
1999
#8767
Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920.
1999
#8874
Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany
1999
#8937
Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
1999
#8960
Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.
"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …
1999
#9034