2000–2009
890 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2008
#9653
Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.
2008
#9683
Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.
2008
#9842
Archives and manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/ "The collections held in the Western Manuscripts section of the Bodleian Libraries are a vast treasure house of historical records and literary papers from all pe…
2008
#9852
Literature and medicine, future tense: Making it graphic.
A relatively early discussion of the principles of graphic medicine. Available from obermann.uiowa.edu at this link.
2008
#9878
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
2008
#9880
The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.
"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…
2008
#9916
The Sloane Printed Books catalogue.
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/ "The Sloane Printed Books catalogue lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Bibliographical records are enhanced with Sloane's own numbers or other identifying ma…
2008
#9967
The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.
2008
#10014
L'Histoire des vaccinations.
Translated and significantly revised and enlarged as Vaccination: A history from Lady Montagu to genetic engineering (Montrouge: John Libbey Eurotext: 2011).
2008
#10082
Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.
Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).
2008
#10085
Russkie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
2008
#10134
A history of microsurgery.
2008
#10187
Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.
2008
#10224
The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.
" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…
2008
#10246
Navy medicine in Vietnam: Oral histories from Dien Bein Phu to the fall of Saigon.
2008
#10289
The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.
2008
#10362
Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.
2008
#10509
Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
2008
#10547
The casebooks project: A digital edition of Simon Forman's & Richard Napier's medical records 1596-1634. Lauren Kassell, Project Director.
http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ "The Casebooks Project offers a tool for searching and reading the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier. The project is ongoing: 48,500 cases ar…
2008
#10550
Making visible embryos.
http://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/index.html "IMAGES OF HUMAN EMBRYOS Images of human embryos are everywhere. We see them in newspapers, clinics, classrooms, laboratories, family albums and on the internet…
2008
#10635
Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)
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A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.
2008
#10732
La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).
2008
#10798
Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
2008
#10974
Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.
"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…
2008
#11544
History of cognitive neuroscience.
2008
#11624
Liber bestiarum. MS Bodley 764. Commentary by Christopher de Hamel and translation by Richard Barber. 2 vols.
Full color facsimile of the illuminated manuscript with translation and commentary in an accompanying volume. The two volumes boxed. The translation was originally published by the Folio Society in 1992, and the Boyde…
2008
#11792
Milestones in the history of aphasia: Theories and protagonists.
2008
#12097
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
2008
#12214
Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.
2008
#12331
On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.
Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2008
#12431
Madness to mental illness: A history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
2008
#12555
At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.
",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…
2008
#12724
Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.
Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…
2008
#13058
DNA sequencing of a cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukaemia genome.
Ley and collaborators decoded all the genes of a person with cancer (acute myeloid leukemia (AML)) and found a set of mutations that might have caused the disease or aided its progression.
2008
#13166
The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.
An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.
2008
#13390
The age of anxiety: A history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers.
2008
#13515
Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.
2008
#13653
The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…
2008
#14011
A history of neuro-oncology.
2008
#14294
In vivo imaging of membraine-associated glycans in developing Zebrafish.
The authors applied click chemistry to previously inaccessible biologic environments. Towards that end, they used a modified azide and clicking it onto an alkyne but without using copper ions which are toxic to cells,…
2008
#14360
The Zurich Paracelsus Project.
Paracelsus "Alterius not sit, qui suus esse potest." "Who can be himself, shall not belong to someone else." "This was the motto of Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim (1493-1541), generally known as Paracelsus. This pe…
2008
#14360
The Zurich Paracelsus Project. General editor: Urs Leo Gantenbein. Digital Edition.
A digital edition from the Center for Medieval Studies Zurich: https://www.paracelsus.uzh.ch/index.html "Alterius not sit, qui suus esse potest." "Who can be himself, shall not belong to someone else." "This was the m…
2009
#7149
The evolution of Chinese medicine: Song dynasty 960-1200.
2009
#7205
Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio: A history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America.
2009
#7222
The Cambridge world history of medical ethics. Edited by Robert B. Baker and Lawrence B. McCullough.
2009
#7477
The history of oncology.
2009
#7523
History of telemedicine: Evolution, context, and transformation.
2009
#7548
Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.
2009
#7567
Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.
2009
#7650
Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.
Text and captions in English and German.