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2000–2009

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2006

#8801

Biotech: The countercultural foundations of an industry.

2006

#8905

Leprosy and empire: A medical and cultural history.

"An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missio…

2006

#8935

Boticas & pharmacias: Uma historia ilustrada da farmacia no Brasil.

2006

#9155

The dilemma of federal mental health policy: Radical reform or incremental change?

2006

#9265

The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.

2006

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2006

#9462

Bad medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates.

The paperback edition published in 2007 included a new epilogue by the author in response to critics of the controversial hardback edition.

2006

#9614

Galen: On diseases and symptoms. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston.

2006

#9722

The genetics revolution: History, fears and future of a life-altering science.

2006

#9749

Death rode the rails: American railroad accidents and safety 1828-1965.

2006

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

2006

#9820

Mom's cancer.

This book was born digital in 2004, and later published in print. See www.momscancer.com. "Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version" "Brian Fies is a freelance…

2006

#9873

Miracles in Enlightenment England.

Chapter 3: Miracle workers dn healers. Chapter 4: Valentine Greatrakes and the New Philosophy, etc.

2006

#9911

Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.

2006

#9926

Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.

2006

#9934

Nurse-midwifery: The birth of a new American profession.

2006

#9952

Archive-It.org

https://archive-it.org/ "First deployed in 2006, Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations to harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content. Th…

2006

#10061

Selected writings 1958-2004. Foreward by David Clark.

Saunders founded St. Christopher's Hospice in 1967 as the first research and teaching hospice linked with clinical care.

2006

#10144

A perfectly striking departure: Surgeons and surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912—1980.

2006

#10148

A century of adventure in northern health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978.

2006

#10164

J-B Baillière et fils, éditeurs de médecine: Actes du colloque international de Paris (29 janvier 2005). Ed. Danielle Gourevitch et Jean-François Vincent.

2006

#10248

Frozen in memory: U.S. Navy medicine in the Korean War.

2006

#10366

All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.

2006

#10631

Disease in Babylonia. Edited by Irving L. Finkel and Markham J. Geller.

"This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on p…

2006

#10896

Former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1783-2002. Biographical index. 2 vols.

2006

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

2006

#10975

A personal history of nuclear medicine.

2006

#11041

Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…

2006

#11062

Sex, aging, & death in a medieval medical compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, its texts, language and scribe. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.

2006

#11100

The Latin Alexander Trallianus: The text and transmission of a late latin medical book

2006

#11227

The Roy G. Neville historical chemical library: An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry, chemical technology, and related subjects. 2 vols.

2006

#11650

The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.

2006

#11768

Inside the space race: A space surgeon's diary.

2006

#11772

MykoLibri. Die Biliothek der Pilzbücher.

2006

#11872

Influenza pandemics of the 20th century.

Abstract: "Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The latter 2 were in the era of modern virology and most thoroughly characterized. All 3 have been in…

2006

#11982

Culture of T. whipplei from the stool of a patient with Whipple's disease.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Raoult, Fenollar, Birg. Raoult and colleagues cultured the infectious agent of Whipple's disease from the stool of a patient with the disease. In the process the author…

2006

#12291

Curing the colonizers: Hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas.

Translated into French by the author as À la cure, les coloniaux ! Thermalisme, climatisme et colonisation française, 1830-1962. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

2006

#12332

The evolution of cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology.

2006

#12345

Classic papers in coronary angioplasty. Edited by Clive Handler and Michael Cleman.

2006

#12523

The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).

2006

#12551

Samoan medical belief and practice.

"...the first comprehensive study of Samoan medicine. Cluny and La‘avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofo, in Western Samoa …

2006

#12579

Shell shock to PTSD: Military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War.

2006

#12597

CCR5 deficiency increases risk of symptomatic West Nile infection.

The authors showed that the absence of the CCR5 receptor, which provides immunoresistance to HIV increases susceptability to West Nile virus. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Glass, McDermott, Lim et …

2006

#12672

Les chrétiens dans la médecine arabe.

2006

#12731

Fiber pathways of the brain

"... a comprehensive,well-illustrated study of the organization of the white matter pathways of the brain. Schmahmann and Pandya have analyzed and synthesized the corticocortical and corticosubcortical connections of …

2006

#12732

Atlas of regional anatomy of the brain using MRI with functional correlations

Though this book is intended for clinical and neurosurgical applications, the authors take an historical approach. Chapter 1 is "Historical review of cross-sectional anatomy of the brain."

2006

#12987

Manuscrits médicaux Latins de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Un index des oeuvres et des auteurs.

"Abstract "This index of medical medieval texts is the first result of a collective work started in the 60s. It is deliberately limited to medical works (to the exclusion of veterinary art, alchemy, and natural philos…

2006

#13094

The Pauling catalogue. Ava Helen and Linus Pauling papers at Oregon State University. Edited by Christoffer Petersen and Cliff Mead. 6 vols.

Vol. 1. Timeline, correspondence, publications, manuscripts & typescripts of articles, speechs, and books. Vol. 2. Science, Research Notebooks. 1917 Linus Pauling Diary. Vol. 3. Peace, Ava Helen Pauling, travel, honor…

2006

#13287

Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors.

Takahashi and Yamanaka reprogrammed mice fibroblast cells, which can produce only other fibroblast cells, to become pluripotent stem cells, which have the capacity to produce many different types of cells. This they a…

2006

#13693

Criminels and their scientists: The history of criminology in international perspective. Edited by Richard F. Wetzell and Peter Becker.