2010–2019
888 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2014
#8131
Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 4th edition. Edited by Bruce Jennings. 6 vols.
2014
#8160
Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.
2014
#8189
The emergence of tropical medicine in France.
2014
#8194
COPAC.
http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search/form/main: "Copac exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of c.90 major UK and Irish libraries (and growing). In a single search you can discover th…
2014
#8252
Intolerant bodies: A short history of autoimmunity.
2014
#8259
Maimonides On rules regarding the practical part of the medical art. A parallel English-Arabic edition and translation. Translated by Gerrit Bos, edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann
2014
#8296
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
2014
#8397
History of allergy. Edited by K. C. Bergmann and J. Ring. (Chemical Immunology and Allergy Vol. 100.)
Allergy through 20 centuries; most common allergic diseases: historical reflections; mechanisms of allergy: important discoveries; detection and environmental influences and allergens; progress in allergy management; …
2014
#8464
Medicine and religion: An historical introduction.
2014
#8509
Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.
2014
#8515
The healing goddess Gula: Towards an understanding of ancient Babylonian medicine.
2014
#8584
Food and environment in early and medieval China.
2014
#8705
Huarte y Navarro: The examination of men's wits, translated by Richard Carew. Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera. (MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, Vol. 17).
Includes a very significant historical introduction, particularly concerning the very wide influence of this work on literature and philosophy as well as medicine.
2014
#8897
Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe, de la révolution à nos jours. 3 vols. Edited by Lisa Dumusay-Queffélec and Hélène Spengler.
2014
#9108
Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages. Edited by Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler.
"... a dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles i…
2014
#9412
Shadow medicine: The placebo in conventional and alternative therapies.
2014
#9703
Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.
2014
#9845
Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.
"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as…
2014
#9912
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
2014
#10043
Death before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.
"Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 19…
2014
#10087
Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.
" This volume resents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America" (from the introduction). "Kennewick Man is the name general…
2014
#10097
Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.
The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…
2014
#10125
Learning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.
How medical knowledge and experience gained during the U.S. Civil War advanced the development of American medicine after the war ended.
2014
#10171
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.
2014
#10214
The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.
Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.
2014
#10422
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
2014
#10489
Die Erfindung der Ophthalmoskopie dargestellt in den Originalbeschreibungen der Augenspiegel von Helmholtz, Ruete und Giraud-Teulon. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Wolfgang Jaeger.
2014
#10542
Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.
"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…
2014
#10566
Medical Museums outside the United States.
http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/research/links-of-interest/medical-museums-outside-the-united-states/ Annotated listing of medical museums outside the United States with links to their websites.
2014
#10629
The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.
"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis and shows its structural…
2014
#10699
Animalia: Men and animal care in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.
2014
#10771
Cholera: A worldwide history.
2014
#10778
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.
Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…
2014
#10879
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
2014
#10909
A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
![DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)](/media/portraits/2028)
"Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approxima…
2014
#10911
Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.
2014
#10928
Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Guéké…
2014
#10929
Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Schieffelin, Shaffer, Goba. The authors used "quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assays to assess the load of Ebola virus (EBOV, Zaire species) in a…
2014
#10930
Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.
Report on Ebola virus disease management from the Emory University unit and its specialists detailing the diagnosis, management, complications and expectations of this illness for infectious disease physicians. The au…
2014
#10970
Wounded: A new history of the Western Front in World War I.
A comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front in World War I. Over 21 million military in were wounded in World War I, and nearly 10 million were killed.
2014
#11061
Uroscopy in Middle English: A guide to the texts and manuscripts. Studies in medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. 11.
2014
#11115
Annotated x-ray bibliography 1896-1945, also containing some selected references on nuclear physics, radioactivity & nuclear medicine.
2014
#11157
An annotated bibliography of the Dennis G. Pappas Otolaryngology Collection at the Reynolds Historical Library.
Digital edition available from https://library.uab.edu/images/reynolds-finley/collections/otolaryngology/pappas-annotated-bibliography.pdf
2014
#11195
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.
"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …
2014
#11321
Rum maniacs: Alcoholic insanity in the Early American Republic.
2014
#11340
Genome sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Tyrpanosomiasis.
The Internation Glossina Genome Initiative consisted of 179 collaborators. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
2014
#11341
Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Brelsfoard, Tsiamis, Falchetto....The authors suggested that infection by Wolbachia may give a reproductive advantage to the fly that carries the parasite causing Sleep…
2014
#11346
Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.
2014
#11359
Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.
2014
#11397
Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wilson, Naccache, Samayoa...Chiu. This research demonstrated the value of "next-generation-sequencing" in the diagnosis of a specific meningoencephalitis, a disease whi…