2000–2009
890 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2007
#12584
The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Smith "was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After his return to the United States, he became the first African America…
2007
#12965
The diploid genome sequence of an individual human.
The first genome sequence of a single human (Craig Venter), including analysis and comments on his genetic markers, and their possible medical and prognosticating implications. (Order of authorship in the original pub…
2007
#12988
Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.
2007 –2010
#13034
The Linnaeus Apostles. Global science & adventure. 8 vols. in 11. General editor: Lars Hansen.
Vol. 1: Introduction Vol. 2: Europe, Arctic & Asia. Anton Rolandsson Martin, Johan Peter Falck Vol. 3: Europe, North & South America. Pehr Kalm, Pehr Löfling, Daniel Rolander Vol. 4: Europe, Middle East, North East & …
2007
#13219
Promise on Parnassus: The first century of the UCSF School of Nursing.
History of the School of Nursing at the University of California San Franicsco.
2007
#13290
The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.
2007
#13304
Disability in Islamic law.
2007
#13320
Una biblioteca ejemplar: Tesoros de la Colección Francisco Guerra en la Biblioteca Complutense
2007
#13331
A history of social psychology: From the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the Second World War.
2007
#13577
Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.
"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…
2007
#13634
The medieval hospital and medical practice. Edited by Barbara S. Bowers.
2007
#13645
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
2007
#14063
Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors.
Yamanaka (Nobel Prize 2012) and colleagues demonstrated the generation of Induced Pluripotent Stems Cells (iPS) from adult human dermal fibroblasts with the same 4 mice factors they used in GM 13287. By overexpressing…
2007
#14074
Gustaf Retzius: A Biography by Thomas Lindblad. With special contributions by Gunnar Grant, Björn Afzelius, Olle Johansson & Markku Virtanen, Helge Rask-Andersen, Torstein Sjøvold. Editor: Ove Hagelin.
A finely written and superbly illustrated and produced study of Retzius's life and published works, issued in the style of Retzius's magnificent publications.
2007
#14128
Beyond the White House, waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.
President Carter devoted half of this book to Guinea worm disease, nature of the illness, its epidemiology, its cause and the current importance from a public health and human suffering standpoint. Carter's leadership…
2008
#6948
Conrad Gessner's Private Library by Urs B. Leu, Raffael Keller and Sandra Weidmann.
Includes a study of Gessner's library in the context of libraries in 16th-century Zurich, and a catalogue of the library, with listings of lost books and lost manuscripts, known from Gessner's correspondence or from a…
2008
#7026
The history of natural history: An annotated bibliography. Second edition
First published, New York: Garland, 1994.
2008
#7130
Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.
Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.
2008
#7266
Pantheon der Dermatologie. Herausragende historische Persönlichkeiten.
Probably the largest and most comprehensive history of a medical specialty published in the 21st century. Expanded and revised English translation: Pantheon of Dermatology: outstanding historical figures by Löser, Ple…
2008
#7298
Worlds before Adam: The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform.
2008
#7360
The mechanical mind in history. Edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler.
2008
#7412
Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.
The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…
2008
#7426
On speed: The many lives of amphetamine.
2008
#7569
The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.
2008
#7623
The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery.
2008
#7925
Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.
2008
#7929
This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
2008
#7943
The administration of sickness: Medicine and ethics in nineteenth century Algeria.
2008
#8080
National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.
Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…
2008
#8118
Hathi Trust Digital Library.
"HathiTrust began in 2008 as a collaboration of the universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (now the Big Ten Academic Alliance) and the University of California system to establish a repository to a…
2008
#8234
Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…
2008
#8305
Mania: A short history of bipolar disorder.
2008
#8308
Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.
2008
#8537
Galen and the rhetoric of healing.
2008
#8561
Health and healing from the medieval garden. Edited by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide.
2008
#8572
Alberti Magni e-corpus.
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~albertus/ "Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200 – 1280) is one of the most important medieval philosophers and theologians, and one of the very few to have been recognized as an auctoritas in his li…
2008
#8641
Making room in the clinic: Nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care.
2008
#8771
Pioneers of cardiac surgery.
Oral histories in narrative form without interposed questions of more than three dozen first and second generation cardiac surgeons.
2008
#8908
From skulls to brains: 2500 years of neurosurgical progress.
An annotated exhibition catalogue of rare books on the history of neurological surgery from Eugene Flamm's library.
2008
#9004
Answering the call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. edited by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2008
#9006
Der Trieb zum Erzählen: Sexualpathologie und Homosexualität, 1852-1914.
2008
#9035
Cocaine: Global drug.
Traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Conne…
2008
#9117
A history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
2008
#9231
War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A series of cases, 2003-2007. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz.
Exceptionally well illustrated with color photographs.
2008
#9239
Osmanli tibbi bilimler literaturu tarihi [History of the literature of medical sciences during the Ottoman period]. Edited by E. Ihsanoglu. [Îlim tarihi kaynaklari ve arastirmalari serisi 14, Osmanli bilim tarihi literatürü serisi 7]. 4 vols.
Comprehensive and detailed catalogue of Turkish medical writings produced during the Ottoman period from the 14th to early 20th centuries. "The main body of the book lists the medical works in chronological order unde…
2008
#9370
De arte gymnastica. The art of gymnastics. Critical edition by Concetta Pennuto. English translation by Vivian Nutton.
This critical edition, based upon the 1601 edition, the last edition published in Mercuriale's lifetime, includes the Latin text and English translation, reproductions of the woodcuts attributed to Coriolan and the or…
2008
#9455
Paolo Zacchia: alle origini della medicina legale, 1584-1659. Edited by Alessandro Pastore and Giovanni Rossi.
2008
#9489
"Hand mnemonics in classical Chinese medicine: Texts, earliest images, and arts of memory," Festschrift issued in honor of Nathan Sivin, Asia Major series 3, 21.1, 325-357.
2008 –2011
#9537
Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.
Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.
2008
#9600
Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.
"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…