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2013

#11915

Biologics. A history of agents made from living organisms in the twentieth century. Edited by Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff and Bettina Wahrig.

2013

#11978

The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.

Available online from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov at this link. "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a lead…

2013

#12023

Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.

"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…

2013

#12040

The duke and the stars: Astrology and politcs in renaissance Milan.

Explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical…

2013

#12102

Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.

2013

#12141

Cholera in Detroit: A history.

2013

#12194

Mankind beyond earth: The history, science, and future of human space exploration.

2013

#12219

Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.

A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.

2013

#12299

Medical books in the Byzantine world. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

2013

#12389

Landmark papers in allergy. Seminal papers in allergy with expert commentaries. Edited by Aziz Sheikh, Thomas Platts-Mills, and Allison Worth.

2013

#12391

Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.

2013

#12493

Medicine on screen: Films and essays from NLM.

https://medicineonscreen.nlm.nih.gov/ "Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections. This site showcases unique, rare, and important medical films…

2013

#12568

Wars, pestilence and the surgeon's blade: The evolution of British Military medicine and surgery during the nineteenth century.

2013

#12580

Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland.

2013

#12682

Catching cancer: The quest for its viral & bacterial causes.

2013

#12927

History of orthodontics.

This history covers 19th century and earlier developments but emphasizes 20th century material including "History of dental lasers and their applications in orthodontics," "History of of Invisalign," etc.

2013

#13230

A history of psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomsky Era.

2013

#13265

The history of radiology.

2013

#13284

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures

The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …

2013

#13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

2013

#13532

The PKU paradox: A short history of a genetic disease.

2013

#13582

Modern colonization by medical intervention: U.S. medicine in Puerto Rico.

2013

#13647

Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789.

"Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This…

2013

#13660

Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.

2013

#13661

The history of color blindness. Translated from the original French manuscript by Colin Mailer.

2013

#13674

Ways of regulating drugs in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess.

2013

#13691

A medical history of skin: Scratching the surface. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.

2013

#13729

The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143764/ "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a leader in t…

2013

#13740

The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.

2013

#14101

The haplotype-resolved genome and epigenome of the aneuploidy HeLa cancer cell line.

Adey and colleagues sequenced the haplotype-resolved whole genome of the HeLa cancer cell line. This showed a highly rearranged region at chromosome 8q24.21, where an integration locus of the HPV (human papillomavirus…

2013

#14353

Adrenaline.

A history and survey.

2014

#5557

De arte phisicale et de cirurgia

John of Arderne was the first English surgeon of note. The Stockholm manuscript preserved in the National Library of Stockholm is an illustrated vellum roll nearly 18 feet long and 15 inches wide written in England in…

2014

#7220

Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.

Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…

2014

#7237

Jewish medical resistance in the holocaust. Edited by Michael A. Grodin.

2014

#7289

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.

First complete sequence of a Neanderthal genome. With more than 20 co-authors. In 2022 Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and hu…

2014

#7377

The Oxford handbook of animals in classical thought and life.

2014

#7411

The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.

2014

#7503

The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).

2014

#7624

Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

2014

#7664

Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.

2014

#7754

African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.

Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.

2014

#7837

Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.

2014

#7845

Global population: History, geopolitics and life on earth.

2014

#7846

Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.

2014

#7858

The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.

2014

#7889

The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.

2014

#7936

Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.

An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.

2014

#7937

Historia de la medicina Argentina: Desde la dominación hispánica hasta la actualidad.

2014

#8038

Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.

2014

#8067

Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.