Ithaca, NY

1939 CE

#6914

The nature of the chemical bond and the structure of molecules and crystals: An introduction to modern structural chemistry.

This book set forth in detail Pauling's valence-bond theory based on the quantum-mechanical concept of resonance between two energy states, which led to his highly innovative idea that the hybridization of orbitals (e…

1943 CE

#8762

Civilization and disease.

Study of the effect of disease on economics, law, religion and science.

1944 CE

#11352

Intracranial arterial aneurysms.

1966 CE

#534.1

Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology. 5 vols.

Vol. 1 is an exhaustive biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology, and annotated English translations of Nos. 468 & 469.

1968 CE

#9097

Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.

1973 CE

#8126

Galenism: Rise and decline of a medical philosophy.

1974 CE

#8758

The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.

Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…

1978 CE

#9434

Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.

1978 CE

#2268.1

Tropical medicine and parasitology: Classic investigations. 2 vols.

About 200 key papers, reproduced in whole or in part, in English translation where necessary. Includes useful biographical notes.

1981 CE

#8033

Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.

1987 CE

#13470

Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.

1988 CE

#8066

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

1988 CE

#13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…

1994 CE

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1995 CE

#9630

Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.

1995 CE

#7714

The archaeology of disease.

1998 CE

#7269

Ancestral images: The iconography of human origins.

1998 CE

#13294

Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.

2001 CE

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2004 CE

#8321

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.

Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).

2004 CE

#7109

The book of skin.

2007 CE

#11575

Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.

2014 CE

#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…

2019 CE

#13293

Anti/Vax: Reframing the vaccination controversy.

2019 CE

#13010

Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.

"Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless&mdash…

2021 CE

#14104

Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.

"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking…