2010–2019
888 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2015
#8253
A historical perspective on evidence-based immunology.
Thoroughly documented and well-illustrated history, with a timeline and bibliography for each chapter.
2015
#8260
Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.
One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.
2015
#8274
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
2015
#8290
The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes
Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…
2015
#8291
The Alexandrian summaries of Galen’s On critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an introduction and notes by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann.
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"Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also…
2015
#8431
The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
2015
#8516
Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)
2015
#8583
A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.
"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…
2015
#8724
The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.
2015
#8770
Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.
2015
#8790
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
2015
#8800
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
2015
#9000
Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.
Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…
2015
#9039
The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.
The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…
2015
#9195
Radium and the secret of life.
2015
#9202
Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.
2015
#9315
Peter of Spain, Questiones super libro De animalibus Aristotelis. Critical edition with introduction, edited by Francisca Navarro Sánchez.
2015
#9429
Bones: Orthopaedic pathologies in Roman Imperial age.
2015
#9476
The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.
Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
2015
#9636
In search of the perfect health system.
"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…
2015
#9705
Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.
2015
#9706
Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.
2015
#9716
The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.
"The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a…
2015
#9818
The graphic medicine manifesto.
"...establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and M…
2015
#9829
The great paleolithic war: How science forged an understanding of America's ice age past.
A masterful synthesis of the history of the study of human origins in North America with a comprehensive bibliography.
2015
#9859
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
2015
#9870
Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.
2015
#9957
Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.
Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…
2015
#9968
Palliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.
This is a fine example of "you can't judge a book by its cover" since this study is outstanding from the bibliographical point of view and contains footnotes that are remarkable for their scholarly detail.
2015
#10034
Die Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.
Translated into English by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub as A history of palliative care, 1500-1970: Concepts, practices, and ethical challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017).
2015
#10088
History of medical practice in Nigeria.
2015
#10116
The dying and the doctors: The medical revolution in seventeenth-century England.
"From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general pra…
2015
#10119
An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.
1077 pages.
2015
#10147
Pioneers in plastic surgery.
2015
#10275
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
2015
#10341
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
2015
#10424
L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).
Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
2015
#10442
The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.
2015
#10556
Brought to Light: Stories from UCSF Archives & Special Collections.
https://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/broughttolight/
2015
#10620
The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
2015
#10724
Sleep medicine: A comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment. Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard.
2015
#10800
The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.
2015
#10905
Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mous…
2015
#10917
Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for th…
2015
#10919
Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …
2015
#10969
Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.
A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.
2015
#11068
Chirurgie dentaire et nazisme.
2015
#11084
Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: A descriptive catalogue. By Petros Bouras-Vallianatos with contributions by Georgi R. Parpulov.
Detailed bibliographical descriptions of the 16 manuscripts then owned by the Wellcome Library, including several from the collections of Anthony Askew (1722-1774), who acquired his in the dispersal of the library of …
2015
#11196
The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.
2015
#11368
The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.
"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Sma…