Facets

1823 CE

#7361

Medical jurisprudence. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1990 CE

#11265

Medical malpractice in nineteenth-century America: Origins and legacy.

2014 CE

#11612

Medical monopoly: Intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry.

2010 CE

#13459

Medicine after the Holocaust: From the master race to the human genome and beyond. Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld.

"Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a führer over God, and personal …

2002 CE

#13503

Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Origins, practices, legacies. Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.

1997 CE

#12020

Medicine and morals in the enlightenment: John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush.

"Modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world is commonly thought to derive from the medical philosophy of the Scotsman John Gregory (1725-1773) and his younger associates, the English Dissenter Thomas Percival…

2007 CE

#10027

Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.

2014 CE

#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…

1897 CE

#1766

Medicinische Deontologie.

1921 CE

#1756

Medicolegal application of human blood grouping.

An important series of papers on blood-grouping and the jurisprudence of paternity. Ottenberg performed the first matched-blood transfusion.

1684 CE

#1762

Medicus peccans, sive tractatus de peccatis medicorum.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1614 CE

#1759

Medicus-politicus: Sive de officiis medico-politicis tractatus.

One of the first “modern” works on medical ethics. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2006 CE

#7172

Medizin im "Dritten Reich". Humanexperimente, "Euthanasie" und die Debatten der Gegenwart.

1764 CE

#1731

Mémoire contre la légitimité des naissances prétendues tardives.

An attempt to set the minimum and maximum time limits of duration of human pregnancy. Supplement published in 1764.

1826 CE

#13410

Mémoire médico-légal sur la viabilité de l'enfant naissant.

Chaussier introduced a procedure for the revival of near-dead infants. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1763 CE

#1730

Mémoire sur une question anatomique relative à la jurisprudence; dans lequel on établit les principes pour distinguer, à l’inspection d’un corps trouvé pendu, les signes du suicide d’avec ceux de l’assassinat.

Louis was a pioneer of French medical jurisprudence. Above is a classic discussion on the differential signs of murder and suicide in cases of hanging.

1682 CE

#10017

Mercurius compitalitius, sive, Index medico-practicus.per decisiones, cautiones, animadversiones, castigationes & observationes in sugulis affectibus praeter naturam et praesidiis medicis, deaeteticis, cheirurgicis & pharmaceuticis... Accessit appendix de medici munere.

Discusses 63 topics on medical ethics and decorum, patient behavior, medical diagnosis, prognosis, and practice guidelines, including how to relate to the patient in all matters, including extreme old age and death. "…

2016 CE

#9779

Murder and the making of English CSI.

2004 CE

#7893

Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.

1741 CE–1751 CE

#10344

Nuevo aspecto de theologia medico-moral y ambos derechos, ó paradoxas phisico-theologico-legales. 3 vols.

Rodríguez, a self-taught Cistercian monk, dealt with issues in medical ethics in this manual for confessors.

2006 CE

#7989

Oath betrayed: Torture, medical complicity and the war on terror.

1836 CE

#1737

Observations on manual strangulation, illustrated by cases and experiments.

After performing an autopsy on a strangulation case, Gross set out to study the physiology involved in manual strangulation. He set up a series of experiments on dogs for this purpose and provides autopsy reports on e…

1770 CE

#8132

Observations on the duties and offices of a physician; and on the method of prosecuting enquiries in philosophy.

"The first philosophical, secular medical ethics in the English language" (Lawrence, Paul. "(John Gregory." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.). "Gregory divided the practice of medicine into four parts, or bran…

1789 CE

#10348

Observations on the duties of a physician, and the methods of improving medicine. Accommodated to the present state of society and manners in the United States. Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, February 7, 1789, at the conclusion of a course of lectures upon chemistry and the practice of physic.

Full text available from quod.lib.umich.edu at this link.

1998 CE

#10685

Oeuvres complètes, Tome VIII: Plaies, Nature des os, Coeur, Anatomie. Texte établi et traduit par Marie-Paul Duminil.

Greek text with facing French translation and study of four short treatises of the Hippocratic Collection on anatomy and traumatology of different periods and origins: On sores (probably 5th cent. BCE), On the nature …

1798 CE

#10035

Of the treatment of the dying: Disturb him not - let him pass peaceably. IN: Medical histories and reflections, volume 3, 191-208.

"This apparently first-ever full essay on palliative care is tightly reasoned and carefully crafted—an innovative classic that attests to years of first-hand experience in the care of gravely ill and dying perso…

1978 CE

#10209

Offenses against one's self. Edited by Louis Crompton.

This is the first publication of Jeremy Bentham's essay on "Paederasty," written about 1785. Bentham suppressed the essay during his lifetime, for fear of public outrage at his views on liberalizing the laws concernin…

1842 CE

#13121

On the different forms of insanity in relation to jurisprudence, designed for the use of persons concerned in legal questions regarding unsoundness of mind.

In this book Prichard presented his arguments for introducing the concept of diminished responsibility and irresistable impulse into the legal precedents. Hunter & McAlpine, 836-42. Digital facsimile from the Wellcome…

1913 CE

#211

On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetr…

1880 CE

#177

On the skin-furrows of the hand.

Faulds’s fingerprint method of identification.

1784 CE

#1732

On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children.

This essay on the signs of murder in illegitimate children is, in Garrison’s view, the most important early contribution to forensic medicine by a British writer.

1550 CE

#6142

Ordnung eines erbarn Raths der Statt Regenspurg, die Hebammen betreffende.

The earliest public document in the vernacular containing legislation governing midwives. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1977 CE

#12174

Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].

2015 CE

#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.

2008 CE

#9455

Paolo Zacchia: alle origini della medicina legale, 1584-1659. Edited by Alessandro Pastore and Giovanni Rossi.

2009 CE

#12665

Papillomavirus vaccines. US Patent US7476389B1.

Frazer and Zhou invented and patented the first Papillomavirus vaccine. In 2020 it was marketed as Gardasil and Cervarix. Developed beginning in 1991, about 20 years after Blumberg and Millman's vaccine against viral …

2020 CE

#14043

Patents on life: Religious, moral, and social justice aspects of biotechnology and intellectual property. Edited by Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, and Simon Ravenscroft.

1849 CE

#10110

Physician and patient; or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community.

"During this era of rampant sectarianism in medicine, doctors frequently became dishonest or abusive as they competed for patients. To deal with this situation, the American Medical Association adopted [in 1847] a cod…

1984 CE

#12281

Physicians, law and ethics.

1848 CE

#10729

Poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine.

Taylor was the leading English toxicologist and medical witness of his time, and his works were revised, edited, and translated into other languages. He "performed an invaluable service in codifying legal precedents a…

1638 CE

#1760

Politia medica.

1857 CE–1858 CE

#1743

Practisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin. 2 vols. plus atlas of nine chromolithographed plates.

Casper was the greatest name in forensic medicine in his time. His book was published in English by the New Sydenham Society in 1861-65; it was unsurpassed for many years.

1847 CE

#7249

Première Lettre. Boston, le 13 november 1846.

Jackson, a physician, geologist and chemist in Boston, wrote this letter to Élie de Beaumont in Paris on November 13, 1846, the day after he and William T. G. Morton jointly received U.S. Patent No. 4848 for Im…

1844 CE

#1740

Principles of forensic medicine.

1847 CE

#10063

Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.

The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…

1886 CE

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

1877 CE

#9160

Public hygiene in America: Being the centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 by Henry I. Bowditch. With extracts from correspondence from the various states. Together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

1621 CE–1661 CE

#1720

Quaestiones medico-legales. 9 vols.

Zacchias, a Papal physician, was one of the founders of medical jurisprudence. His treatise includes information concerning injuries of the eye, etc., and contains section on the medico-legal aspects of insanity. The …

1660 CE

#1722

Rationale vulnerum lethalium judicium, in quo de vulnerum lethalium natura et causis, legitima item eorundem inspectione, ac aliis circa hanc materiam scitu dignis juxta, quam necessariis, agitur.

Welsch stressed the need for autopsy in medico-legal cases. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.