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2004

#9994

King's College London Special Collections Exhibitions.

http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/ http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/home "Here you can explore highlights of the College's uniquely rich and growing collections of more than 5 m…

2004

#9996

The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.

2004

#10074

Phrenology and the origins of Victorian scientific naturalism.

2004

#10141

Veterinary medicine: A guide to historical sources.

Includes archival materials.

2004

#10498

Alter und Krankheit in der Frühen Neuzeit. Der ärztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase.

Translated into English by Patrick Baker as Old age and disease in early modern medicine (London & New York: Routledge, 1911).

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2004

#10553

The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.

2004

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2004

#10650

Laws of men and laws of nature: The history of scientific expert testimony in England and America.

Includes some references to early expert testimony and related in France.

2004

#10759

Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China.

2004

#10999

Doctoring the South: Southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century.

2004

#11244

The life and death of smallpox.

2004

#11286

A history of William Osler's The principles and practice of medicine by Richard L. Golden. (Osler Library Studies in the History of medicine No. 8).

This 267-page work is a definitive bibliographical history of Osler's classic textbook.

2004

#11379

Molecular epidemiology of infectious disease.

2004

#11503

Jean Fernel's On the hidden causes of things: Forms, souls and occult diseases in Renaissance medicine.

2004

#11530

A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts. Edited by Alfredo Morabia.

2004

#11776

Bibliographie der deutschen vogelkundlichen Literatur von 1480 bis 1850.

2004

#12313

Le médecins nestoriens au Moyen Âge. Les maîtres des Arabes.

2004

#12463

Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies.

"Founded in 1635, the Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants became the National Museum of Natural History during the French Revolution, with magisterial chairs which were suppressed in 1985. During this 350-year period mor…

2004

#12524

The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia.

"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. I…

2004

#12680

Das Buch der Fieber des Isaac Israeli und seine Bedeutung im lateinischen Westen: Ein Beitrag zur Rezeption arabischer Wissenschaft im Abendland. (Sudhoffs Archiv - Beihefte (Sar-b) von Raphaela Veit.

2004

#12691

Bibliographia Halleriana. Verzeichnis der Schriften von und über Albrecht von Haller. Hrsg. von Hubert Steinke und Claudia Profos, unter Mitarbeit von Pia Burkhalter.

2004

#12836

Synthetic mammalian prions.

The authors modified Koch's Postulates within the context of prion disease. To do so the followed these steps: 1) They created recombinant mouse prion proteins in an E. coli and polymerized them. 2) They proved that t…

2004

#13446

Animals & authors in the eighteenth-century Americas: A hemispheric look at the writing of natural history. By Anita Cavagnaro Been with cataloguing records for selected titles prepared by Burton Van Name Edwards.

2004

#13536

The history of medicine in Iran. Entries extracted from the Encyclopaedia Iranica Vols. I-XII.

2004

#13635

Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain.

2004

#13657

The history of ophthalmology in Japan.

2004

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.

2004

#13701

When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed.

2004

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qajar Ir…

2004

#14080

Die Frühgeschichte der mittelalterlichen medizinischen Fachsprache im Deutschen: Bd 1: Untersuchungen. Bd 2: Wörterbuch.

2004

#14086

L’origine de la syphilis en Europe: Avant ou après 1493? / The origin of syphilis in Europe: Before or after 1493? Proceedings of an international colloquium, Toulon, France, 25–28 November 1993. Edited by Olivier Dutour, György Pálfi, Jacques Berato, and Jean-Pierre Brun.

The occasion of this meeting was the discovery in 1989 near Hyères (Var, France) of a human skeleton of the third or fourth century CE presenting lesions similar to those of syphilis. The volume contains fifty papers …

2004

#14205

Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst.

The authors in Korea, led by Woo-suk Hwang, reported the cloning of a human blastocyst using somatic cell nuclear transfer, and deriving pluripotent embryonic stem cells from that cloned blastocyst. In doing so they c…

2004

#14297

The detection of Monkeypox in humans in the Western Hemisphere.

The first report on detection of Mpox (Monkeypox) in humans in the Western Hemisphere, elaborating and expanding on cases reported in 2003 in Wisconsin and Milwaukee. These patients had been bitten by prairie dogs. At…

2005

#7004

Body worlds. The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.

In 1977 Gunther von Hagens invented plastination, a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. In the process water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be …

2005

#7146

Medieval Chinese medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen.

2005

#7150

Chinese medicine in early communist China, 1945-63.

Describes the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, sidelined medical practice of the early 20th century to an essential and high profile part of the national health care system under the Chinese Communi…

2005

#7416

Bleeding blue and gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine.

2005

#7987

Bioethics beyond the headlines: Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?

2005

#8045

Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.

2005

#8143

Anyone, anything, anytime: A history of emergency medicine.

2005

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

2005

#8199

The European Library.

"Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries. Users …

2005

#8201

From Gutenberg to the internet: A sourcebook on the history of information technology. Edited by Jeremy M. Norman.

Includes some documentation on the early applications of computing to biology and medicine.

2005

#8254

Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qaṭan: Original Hebrew text, medieval Latin translation, modern English translation by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, and Tzvi Langermann.

2005

#8295

From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in Late Antiquity.

2005

#8301

Hippocrates On ancient medicine, translated with an introduction and commentary by Mark J. Schiefsky.

2005

#8328

The rise and fall of HMOs: An American health care revolution.

A broad historical overview of HMOs with a close analysis of one institution, the Marshfield Clinic in northern Wisconsin.

2005

#8454

Medicine in the crusades: Warfare, wounds and the medieval surgeon.

The first book published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. "Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers D. Mitchell considers medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, tortur…

2005

#8488

Medieval science, technology, and medicine: An encyclopedia. Edited by Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey, and Faith Wallis.