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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

2000–2009

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2003

#9804

A history of online information services 1963-1976.

BOURNE, Charles P. HAHN, Trudi Bellardo

Pages 197-223 concern "Modern bibliographic control of medical literature." Development of MEDLARS, MEDLARS II, MEDLINE.

2003

#9806

Medical mycology in the United States: A historical analysis (1894–1996).

ESPINEL-INGROFF, Ana Victoria

2003

#9855

The Birth of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: Blumgart and Yens, 1925.

PATTON, Dennis D.

Available online at http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/44/8/1362.long.

2003

#9874

Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800: A source book. Edited by Peter Elmer and Ole Peter Grell.

GRELL, Ole Peter (1950 – ) ELMER, Peter

2003

#9885

The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.

CARTER, K. Codell (1939 – )

"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…

2003

#9898

Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.

GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )

2003

#9966

A merciful end: The euthanasia movement in modern America.

DOWBIGGIN, Ian Robert (1952 – )

2003

#10010

Dental practice in Europe at the end of the 18th century. Edited by Christine Hillam. (Clio Medica 72).

HILLAM, Christine (1941 – 2000)

2003

#10018

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 3ème partie: La maladie sacrée. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) JOUANNA, Jacques (1935 – )

Until Hippocrates epilepsy was believed to be religious in origin; Hippocrates provided the first medical description of the disease.

2003

#10025

Palliative care perspectives.

HALLENBECK, James L.

2003

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

LEWIS, Milton James

2003

#10143

Transplant: From myth to reality.

TILNEY, Nicholas L. ( – 2013)

2003

#10154

Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Vétérinaires.

http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/ http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/en/

2003

#10183

A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.

ALCHON, Susan Austin (1952 – )

2003

#10210

Homosexuality and civilization.

CROMPTON, Louis (1925 – 2009)
CROMPTON, Louis (1925 – 2009)

The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.

2003

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

HILTS, Philip J.

2003

#10233

Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis.

WILLIAMS, Michael (1935 – 2009)

This work, which was heralded as a masterwork of scholarship when published, originally consisted of 689pp. In 2006 the publishers issued "an abridgment" to make the work accessible to a "general readership." The abri…

2003

#10244

ArtandMedicine.com.

ROWLEY, Mark

http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.

2003 –2013

#10245

Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes.

http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mjw65/jmc/ Twenty-four issues were published. Table of Contents for all issues is available on the website.

2003

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

DAS, Rahul Peter (1954 – )

2003

#10709

Conjoined twins: An historical, biological and ethical issues encyclopedia.

QUIGLEY, Christine (1963 – )

2003

#10710

Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.

COCKS, Harry G. (1968 – )

2003

#10758

On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) POWELL, Owen

2003

#10818

Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.

CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich (1860 – 1904)
CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich (1860 – 1904) COULEHAN, Jack

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…

2003

#10859

Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - Worldwide, 2003.

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

First description of the scope of the outbreak dated March 21, 2003, preliminary case definition, and interim infection control guidance for the United States. Available from the CDC at this link. One week later the C…

2003

#10860

Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

PEIRIS, Joseph Sriyal Malik (1949 – ) POON, Lit Man Leo LAI, S. T. & et al.

Dated April 19, 2003, this paper identified and reproduced microscopic images of the novel viral agent. It was the first official journal publication on SARS. Order of authorship in the published paper was Peiris, Lai…

2003

#10861

A novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

KSIAZEK, Thomas F. ERDMAN, Dean GOLDSMITH, Cynthia S. & et al.

Ksiazek and over 40 co-authors around the world published the lead article in the May 15, 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that was nearly entirely devoted to SARS. Order of authorship in the publishe…

2003

#10862

Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

ROTA, Paul A. OBERSTE, M. Steven MONROE, Stephan S.
DERISI, Joseph L.
DERISI, Joseph L. & et al.

Dated May 30, 2003. Rota and team at the CDC determined the sequence of the complete genome of SARS-CoV, and characterized the viral genome. Order of authorship in the published paper was Rota, Oberste, Monroe....DeRi…

2003

#10863

The genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.

MARRA, Marco A. (1966 – )
MARRA, Marco A. (1966 – ) JONES, Steven J. M. ASTELL, Caroline R.

Dated May 30, 2003 and published immediately after No. 10862 in the same issue of Science, this reported the work of Marco Marra and his team in Canada. Order of authorship in the published paper was Marra, Jones, Ast…

2003

#11047

Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).

LEV, Efraim

2003

#11118

History of periodontology.

CARRANZA, Fermín Alberto (1926 – ) SHKLAR, Gerald (1925 – 2015) WILLIAMS, Ray C.

2003

#11347

The invisible enemy: A natural history of viruses.

CRAWFORD, Dorothy H.

2003

#11593

The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.

ENGS, Ruth Clifford

2003

#11744

A history of cocaine: The mystery of coca Java and the Kew plant.

KARCH, Steven B.

This work is not actually a "history", rather it contains translations, with commentary, of three late nineteenth and early twentieth century treatises on coca and cocaine, plus other documents. "An exploration of the…

2003

#11755

Cattle plague: A history.

SPINAGE, Clive A.

"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…

2003

#11903

Labeling people: French scholars on society, race, and empire, 1815-1848.

STAUM, Martin S. (1943 – )

2003

#12009

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus.

LI, Wenghui MOORE, Michael J. VASILIEVA, Natalya

The authors showed that the angiontensin-converting enzyme 2, abbreviated ACE2, is the obligative cell receptor for the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

2003

#12059

Victorian detective fiction: The scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle.

FRANK, Lawrence

2003

#12132

The scientific study of mummies.

AUFDERHEIDE, Arthur C. (1922 – 2013)

2003

#12137

Numbers and nationhood: Writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy.

PATRIARCA, Silvana

2003

#12195

Human survival: Life and death in extreme environments.

PIANTADOSI, Claude Anthony

2003

#12241

Transplant: From myth to reality.

TINEY, Nicolas L.

"... organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation resear…

2003

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

2003

#12712

Demetrio Pepagomeno. Prontuario medico. Testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico e indice. (Hellenica et Byzantina Neapolitana. Collana di Studi e Testi 21).

PEPAGOMENOS, Demetrios (Demetrius Pepagomenus) (1200 – 1300) CIOLLARO, M. Capone

First printed edition of this Byzantine medical text.

2003

#13145

The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.

CHASE, Marilyn

2003

#13322

La medicina en el exilio republicano.

GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

Biographies of more than one thousand exiled veterinarians, dentists, clinicians, and pharmacists who, like Guerra, left Spain after the Civil War of 1936-39.

2003

#13646

Against the spirit of system: The French impulse in nineteenth-century American medicine.

WARNER, John Harley (1953 – )

"... the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medi…

2003

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

LAQUEUR, Thomas Walter (1945 – )
LAQUEUR, Thomas Walter (1945 – )

2003

#13895

Saving lives, training caregivers, making discoveries: A centennial history of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

BURNS, Chester R. (1937 – 2006)

2003

#14155

Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world

FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022)
FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022) KIDDER, John Tracy (1945 – )

Traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.