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1990–1999

810 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1994

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1994

#9409

Medical protestants: The Eclectics in American medicine, 1825-1939.

The first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. "The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medici…

1994

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

1994

#9482

La bataille de cent ans: Histoire de la psychanalyse en France, 1, 1885-1939. 2, 1925-1985. 2 vols.

1994

#9557

Science and the practice of medicine in the nineteenth century.

1994

#9608

Ancient natural history: Histories of nature.

1994

#9684

Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.

1994

#9718

Molecular politics: Developing American and British regulatory policy for genetic engineering, 1972-1982.

1994

#9742

The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.

1994

#9744

Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.

1994

#9860

The case books of Dr. John Snow. Edited by Richard H. Ellis.

1994

#9890

The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.

1994

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

1994

#10038

How we die: Reflections on life's final chapter.

1994

#10051

Nature doctors: Pioneers in naturopathic medicine.

1994

#10084

The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.

1994

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

1994

#10195

A history of gene transfer and therapy by Jon A. Wolff and Joshua Lederberg in: Wolff, Jon A. (ed.) Gene therapeutics: Methods and applications of direct gene transfer, pp.3-25.

Valuable for its detailed, but highly compressed discussion of the earliest history of these subjects, co-authored by Lederberg, who played a significant role during that period.

1994

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1994

#10499

CERL. Consortium of European Research Libraries

https://www.cerl.org/resources/main "The Consortium was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. CERL seeks to share resources and exp…

1994

#10500

Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.

1994

#10849

The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).

Revised edition, 1995.

1994

#10880

Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.

Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …

1994

#10901

Human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?

Order of authorship in the original paper: Bakken, Dumler, Chen. First description of the Ehrlichia ewingii species of Ehrlichiosis (HGE) from a patient in Duluth, Minnesota, though the infectious agent was not yet na…

1994

#11070

Histoire de la biologie moléculaire.

Translated into English by Matthew Cobb as A history of molecular biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

1994

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1994

#11177

The embryonic human brain: An atlas of developmental stages.

"The first work devoted to the staged, embryonic human brain."

1994

#11262

Order out of chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's coming of age.

1994

#11285

Epilogue: The death of an imprint: A supplement to two hundred years of publishing.

Retrospective on Lea & Febiger after its closure.

1994

#11506

English manuscripts of Francis Glisson (1): from Anatomia hepatis (The anatomy of the liver), 1654. Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, no. 3. Edited by Andrew Cunningham.

Publishes for the first time the surviving partial English text of Glisson's book on the liver, and of the work's postscript on the lymphatic system. Glisson wrote in English, but his text was translated into Latin fo…

1994

#11655

The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). Edited by David M. Reifler.

A history of the first twenty-five years of the ASOPRS, plus a history of ophthalmic plastic surgery from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 1994.

1994

#11785

Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

1994

#11834

Roman surgical instruments and other minor objects in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. With a catalogue of the surgical instruments in the "Antiquarium" at Pompeii by Ralph Jackson.

Definitive analysis of the most extensive extant collection of Roman instruments.

1994

#11889

Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.

Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…

1994

#11969

Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers.

Completely revised and updated second edition.

1994

#11973

The art of botanical illustration.

First edition by Blunt, 1950.

1994

#12036

Legal medicine in history. Edited by Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford.

1994

#12207

Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.

1994

#12335

Fifty years of cardiac and pulmonary surgery 1942-1993. The beginning of open heart surgery of postoperative intensive care. The first complete left heart catheterization. Mechanical heart valves.

Björk may be most remembered for the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve.

1994

#12375

Heart surgery classics. Edited by Larry W. Stephenson and Renato Ruggiero.

Reprints of classics with commentaries by Henry Bahnson, Earl Bakken, Denton Cooley, James Cox, Michael DeBakey, Alden Harken, Dudley Johnson, Adrian Kantrowitz, Willem Kolff, C. Walton Lillehei, and Albert Starr. Sev…

1994

#12436

A new coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from humans.

Based on very high magnification electron transmission micrographs and contrast microscopy, Ortega and colleagues fully characterized the parasite and named it Cyclospora cayetanensis n. sp., naming it after Universid…

1994

#12638

Reader in the history of aphasia from [Franz] Gall to [Norman] Geschwind. Edited by Paul Eling.

1994

#12924

Antique hearing devices.

1994

#13190

Bibliographie medicale des Antilles Françaises: Imprimés médicaux dans les colonies françaises des Antilles sous l'Ancien Regime: Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, La Martinique, Sainte-Lucie, Grénade et Guyane, 1765-1805.

1994

#13564

Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression.

Chalfie and colleagues showed that the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, could be used as a visible marker for protein localization and expression in vivo, in bacteria and worm cell…

1994

#13654

The history of public health and the modern state. Edited by Dorothy Porter.

1994

#13823

A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.

1994

#13892

The medical library of Warren G. Smirl, M.D.,S.C.

1994

#14015

A strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1.

Discovery of the BRCA1 gene using the technique of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1994

#14016

Location of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRACA2, to chromosome 13q12-13.

Stratton and colleagues discovered the BRCA2 gene. Oder of authorship in the original publication: Wooster, Neuhausen, Mangion....Stratton. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)