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2000–2009

890 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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2006

#13702

Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.

2006

#13771

Freud's library: A comprehensive catalogue / Freuds Bibliothek: Vollständiger Katalog compiled and edited by J. Keith Davies and Gerhard Fichtner. Introductory volume and CD-ROM.

In January 2022 when I wrote this entry the English language text of this catalogue (dated 2004) was available as a PDF at this link.

2006

#13890

Expunging variola: The control and eradication of smallpox in India 1947-1977.

2006

#14041

Race and the odd history of human paleontology.

Abstract: "Although the late 17th century witnessed the recognition of fossils as the remains of extinct organisms—because they could be incorporated into the creation story embodied in the Great Chain of Being—accept…

2006

#14048

An inconvenient truth. The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.

A politician, Gore was one of the first to draw popular attention to climate change. He supplemented the best-selling book with a film and DVD with the same title. Ten years later, recognizing that in spite of its wid…

2006

#14066

Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches.

Through their more than 40 year study of Darwin's finches on the Island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos, the Grants demonstrated how natural selection can drive rapid changes in body and beak size in response to chan…

2006

#14084

The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb.

In 2004 Shubin, Daeschler and Jenkins discovered the first well-preserved Tiktaalik fossils in on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. Tiktaalik is a non-tetrapod member of Osteichthyes (bony fish) from the late Devon…

2006

#14085

A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan.

The authors showed that: 1) This transitional species had a set of features representing a major departure from the pattern in more primitive sarcopterygian fishes. 2) They presented data to indicate that Tiktaalik li…

2007

#6977

Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.

Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…

2007

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

2007

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

2007

#7141

Historia de la psicofarmacologia. 3 vols.

English translation, edited by Edward F. Domino, as History of psychopharmacology. 4 vols. Arlington, MA: NPP Books, 2014.

2007

#7155

A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine. The sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica.

2007

#7295

Finding time for the old stone age: A History of palaeolithic archaeology and quaternary geology in Britain, 1860-1960.

2007

#7296

Le cercle d'Abbeville: Paléontologie et préhistoire dans la France romantique. Edition établie par Marie-Françoise Aufrère.

In May 1940 the Boucher de Perthes Museum in Abbeville was destroyed by bombing. However, in the years before the war Leon Aufrère made copies of archives and correspondence, which became the source material for this …

2007

#7391

Avicenna Latinus: The reception and assimilation of Ibn Sīnā in the West: texts and studies.

2007

#7434

A life decoded. My genome: My life.

2007

#7506

Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,

2007

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

2007

#7590

William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007.

2007

#7622

A history of limb amputation.

2007

#7646

Charles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America

The first biography of Jackson, the physician and geologist who discoverered of the anesthetic effects of ether, and also played an important role in the discovery of the American electro-magnetic telegraph. Forms a s…

2007

#7753

African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.

2007

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

2007

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2007

#7853

What is medical history?

2007

#7881

Culturing life: How cells became technologies.

A history of tissue culture.

2007

#7954

The emergence of genetic rationality: Space, time & information in American biological science, 1870-1920.

2007

#7963

"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.

The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…

2007

#7972

Experimental design for biologists.

Explains how to establish the framework for an experimental project, how to set up all of the components of an experimental system, design experiments within that system, determine and use the correct set of controls,…

2007

#7994

Development of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS).

Digital version from PubMedCentral at this link.

2007

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

2007

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2007

#8101

Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.

2007

#8163

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

2007

#8197

The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC).

"The USTC is a collective database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century" (http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php, accessed 12-2016). It is hosted by the Universi…

2007

#8278

The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…

2007

#8342

Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.

2007

#8413

Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.

The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …

2007

#8481

Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: The uses of a sixteenth century compendium.

The compendium that King studied is Caspar Wolff's Gynaeciorum (1566, 1586-1588; Nos. 6011 and 6022). She concentrated on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from…

2007

#8556

La Scuola Medica Salernitana. Gli autori e i testi. Convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004. A cura di Danielle Jacquart e Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 01.

Includes on pp. 185-188, and 211-13, Monica H. Green, "Reconstructing the oeuvre of Trota of Salerno." Also, on pp. 15-60, Monica H. Green, “Rethinking the manuscript basis of Salvatore De Renzi’s Collectio Salernitan…

2007

#8557

Alphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.

Alphita, farina ordei idem, an anonymous collection of glosses, documents the linguistic renewal of the medical and botanical technical lexicon, derived from Greco-Latin as well as Arabic sources, at the School of Sal…

2007

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2007

#8696

Mutter Museum: Historic medical photographs. Edited by Laura Lindgren.

2007

#8815

British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830. Edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson.

2007

#8896

Litterature et medécine: Approaches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Alexandre Wenger.

2007

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

2007

#8995

Pride of America, we're with you: The letters of Grace Anderson, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I.

2007

#9003

Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.

"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…

2007

#9026

Medicina, ideología e historia en España (siglos XVI-XXI). Edited by Ricardo Campos, Luis Montiel and Rafael Huertas.