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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1990–1999

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1999

#9048

Bosquejo de la historia de la medicina colombiana.

SERPA FLÓREZ, Fernando (1928 – 2001)

1999

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

TOMES, Nancy J. (1952 – )

1999

#9127

Galen. On my own opinions. Galeni De propriis placitis. Edition, introduction and translation by Vivian Nutton. CMG 5.3.2.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )
NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )

De propriis placitis is Galen's final work in which he reflected on some of the fundamental medical problems that occupied him throughout his long career. "This treatise is not quite the comprehensive survey of a life…

1999

#9193

The birth of the cell.

HARRIS, Sir Henry (1925 – 2014)

1999

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

HYSON, John Miller Jr. (1927 – 2009)

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1999

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )

1999

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

GARIBALDI, Ann

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

1999

#9468

Drugs on trial: Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century.

MAEHLE, Andreas-Holger (1957 – )

"This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed in the course of the seventeenth and eig…

1999 –2000

#9573

The works of Robert Boyle. Edited by Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis. 14 vols.

BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)
BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)
HUNTER, Michael Cyril William (1949 – )
HUNTER, Michael Cyril William (1949 – ) DAVIS, Edward B.

1999

#9602

A Pompeian herbal: Ancient and modern medicinal plants. Plant portraits by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson Meyer. Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemki and others.

JASHEMSKI, Wilhelmina Mary Feemster (1910 – 2007)

1999

#9745

Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.

MOSS, Kay K.

1999

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

MIKKELI, Heikki

1999

#9761

Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.

WATTS, Sheldon

1999

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

JONES, Peter Murray UNTERKIRCHER, Franz

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

LYONS, Maryinez LEWIS, Milton James SETEL, Philip W.

1999

#10053

The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )

1999

#10073

The History of Phrenology on the Web.

VAN WYHE, John (1971 – )

http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/overview.htm This is the most comprehensive reference source available on phrenology. Van Wyhe divides it into the following following sections: Overview Organs The Phrenological …

1999

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

FURTH, Charlotte (1934 – )

1999

#10093

Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.

UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – ) KOVACS, Jürgen

Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…

1999

#10179

Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.

TODD, Jan (1952 – )

The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.

1999

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )

1999

#10315

Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.

WATSON, Wilbur H. (1938 – 1998)

1999

#10338

Natural history investigations in South Carolina from colonial times to the present.

SANDERS, Albert E. ANDERSON, William D. Jr.

1999

#10429

Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.

MORANTZ-SANCHEZ, Regina Markell
JONES, Mary Amanda Dixon (1828 – 1908)
JONES, Mary Amanda Dixon (1828 – 1908)

"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …

1999

#10571

Bibliografía médica americana y filipina: Periodo formativo. 2 vols.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

1999

#10579

An illustrated history of malaria.

BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002) POSER, Charles Marcel (1923 – 2010)

Concentrates on 19th century developments.

1999

#10903

Ehrlichia ewingii, a newly recognized agent of human Ehrlichiosis.

BULLER, Richard ARENS, Max HMIEL, S. Paul & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Buller, Arens, Hmiel. The authors confirmed that the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), is Ehrlichia ewingii, a pathogen carried by dogs and known in that …

1999

#10936

The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fi'l-tibb). Adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar from translations of Volume 1 by O. Cameron Gruner and Mazar H. Shah. Correlated with the Arabic by Jay R. Crook with notes by O. Cameron Gruner.

AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)
AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037) GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)
BAKHTIAR, Laleh Mehree (1938 – )
BAKHTIAR, Laleh Mehree (1938 – )

1999

#10953

Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…

1999

#10954

Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.

ANDERSON, John F. ANDREADIS, Theodore G. VOSSBRINCK, Charles R.

First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …

1999

#10977

Medicine in Maryland: The practice and profession, 1799-1999.

SEWELL, Jane Eliot (1960 – 2002)

1999

#11029

William Osler: A life in medicine.

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)

The most significant biography of Sir William Osler since Harvey Cushing's work published in 1925.

1999

#11040

Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes.

HAHN, Beatrice H. (1955 – ) GAO, Feng BAILES, Elizabeth ROBERTSON, David L. & et al.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Gao, Bailes, Robertson, Hahn. Demonstration, led by Hahn, that HIV-1 originated specifically in the chimpanzee--a mutant of the chimp SIV (SIV-cpz) which acquired mutations s…

1999

#11064

Dictionnaire historique des médecins dans et hors de la médecine.

DUPONT, Michel

1999

#11065

Les musées de médecine: Histoire, patrimoine et grandes figures de la médecine en France.

TILLES, Gérard WALLACH, Daniel

1999

#11071

Tobacco mosaic virus: Pioneering research for a century. A theme issue edited by B. D. Harrison and T. M. A. Wilson.

HARRISON, Bryan Desmond (1931 – ) WILSON, T. M. A.

1999

#11166

The Medical Follow-up Agency: The first fifty years 1946–1996.

BERKOWITZ, Edward D. SANTANGELO, Mark J.

"The Medical Follow-up Agency is a national treasure for veterans and for long-term studies of health. Its data resources provide incomparable opportunities to follow very important populations and to ask creative que…

1999

#11234

Microbiology: A centenary perspective. Edited by Wolfgang K. Joklik, Lars G. Ljungdahl, Alison D. O'Brien, Alexander von Graevenitz, Charles Yanofsky.

JOKLIK, Wolfgang Karl (1926 – 1919) YANOFSKY, Charles (1925 – 2018) & et al.

Classic 20th century papers presented with introductory notes and Prefaces to the following 5 sections: 1. Diagnostic Microbiology and Epidemiology, 2. Pathogenesis and Host Response Mechanisms, 3. General and Applied…

1999

#11278

The works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD, Sir William Osler's alter ego. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard L. Golden.

OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) GOLDEN, Richard L. ( – 2007)

1999

#11632

Birth chairs, midwives and medicine.

BANKS, Amanda Carson (1965 – )

1999

#11925

Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.

KOLATA, Gina Bari (1948 – )

1999

#12189

Corneal transplantation: A history in profiles. Edited by Mark J. Mannis and Avi A. Mannis.

MANNIS, Avi A. MANNIS, Mark J.

1999

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

ENGLISH, Peter C.

1999

#12516

The diffusion of Greco-Roman medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. Edited by J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J. L. Gueriguian.

SAVAGE-SMITH, Emilie (1941 – ) GREPPIN, John A. C. (1937 – 2016) GUERIGUIAN, John L.

1999

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

DOW, Derek A.

1999

#12564

Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, a Fifteenth-Century Armenian Natural Historian and Physician.

VARDANYAN, Stella Armenaki (1934 – ) AMASIATSI, Amirdovlat (1420 – 1496)

1999

#12754

Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.

TAVES, Ann (1952 – )

"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…

1999

#12992

Anglo-Norman literature: A guide to texts and manuscripts.

DEAN, Ruth Josephine (1902 – 2003) BOULTON, Maureen Barry McCann (1948 – )

This standard work catalogued nearly 1000 manuscripts, including medical texts.

1999

#13080

Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).

DAVIS, Althea T.

1999

#13315

Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.

MORAN, Michael

"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…