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2000–2009

890 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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2007

#9118

The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States.

2007

#9132

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…

2007

#9230

The first miracle drugs: How the sulfa drugs transformed medicine.

"In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines…

2007

#9350

Medieval Islamic medicine.

2007

#9425

The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.

"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…

2007

#9447

Dictionary of Medical Biography. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Helen Bynum. 5 vols.

2007

#9493

Alternative medicine: A history.

2007

#9620

Allenby's military medicine: Life and death in World War I Palestine.

2007

#9687

Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.

2007

#9688

Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.

2007

#9704

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.

2007

#9737

Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

2007

#9759

Government and public health in America.

"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility f…

2007

#9777

Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.

Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.

2007

#9819

Graphic Medicine. www.graphicmedicine.org

2007

#9856

Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land.

2007

#9944

Advances in the History of Psychology: A current look at the history of psychology, with news, notes, and additional resources. Edited (in 2018) by Jacy L. Young and Shayna Fox Lee. Faculty Consultant: Christopher D. Green.

https://ahp.apps01.yorku.ca/ "Advances in the History of Psychology is a news and notes aggregator pertaining to the history of the discipline. "AHP notifies readers of resources, publications, conferences, and other …

2007

#9976

African American folk healing.

2007

#9990

Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner. 3 vols.

2007

#10027

Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.

2007

#10250

United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.

Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.

2007

#10346

Encyclopédie sur la mort: La mort et la mort volontaire à travers les pays et les âges.

http://agora.qc.ca/thematiques/mort/

2007

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

2007

#10466

Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ Events & Talks - Library- Books, Articles, Lectures- Press- Exhibitions- Photography- Bookstore The most comprehensive online reference to these topics curated in a unique manner. In…

2007

#10815

The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.

2007

#11030

Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.

A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.

2007

#11082

Shock and awe: The performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations. (Version 5; January 2007.)

Digital edition available from princeton.edu at this link: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/gleason/010702.pdf

2007

#11085

A history of plastic surgery.

2007

#11171

Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.

2007

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecological”…

2007

#11338

Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Nene, Wortman, Lawson.... Sequence of the genome of the mosquito that transmits Zika, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya, etc. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference a…

2007

#11348

Deadly companions: How microbes shaped our history.

2007

#11357

Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.

2007

#11361

The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.

A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…

2007

#11370

Transsexual and other disorders of gender identity: A practical guide to management. Edited by James Barrett.

2007

#11391

Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.

"A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong…

2007

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

2007

#11478

Bacteriocin production as a mechanism for the antiinfective activity of Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Corr, Li, Reidel...Hill. The authors discovered that Lactobacilli produce a bacteriocin, a peptidic toxin that inhibits the growth of similar or closely related bacteri…

2007

#11500

Early modern zoology: The construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.

2007

#11575

Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.

2007

#11843

CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes.

Horvath and his team provided key details of the extremely complex mechanisms involved in CRISPR's function as an immune system for bacteria against bacteriophages. Analogous to Pasteur's heroic role in saving the Fre…

2007

#11934

Bacteremia, fever, and splenomegaly caused by a newly recognized Bartonella species.

The authors described an organism resembling, but different from, Bartonella bacilliformis (Oroya fever) on a patient returning from Peru. The patient recalled numerous insect bites on her legs and feet during her tri…

2007

#11952

History of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

2007

#12159

Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.

2007

#12280

A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.

A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2007

#12307

Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft: Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten.

2007

#12330

Resuscitation greats. Edited by Peter Baskett and Thomas Baskett.

2007

#12351

Evolution and creationism: A documentary and reference guide.

2007

#12505

The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.