Princeton, NJ

1943 CE

#1666

The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.

Reprinted 1980.

1949 CE

#12634

The chemistry of penicillin.

The National Academy of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, with Clarke and Johnson representing the United States on the editorial board, and Robinson representing Britain. The 1120 page book was p…

1949 CE

#12635

X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. IN: Clarke, Johnson, Robinson (eds.) Chemistry of penicillin (1949) 310-67.

Hodgkin and colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin in 1945, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring. The discovery was…

1952 CE

#1685

Man and epidemics.

1959 CE

#13242

Speech and brain mechanisms.

1960 CE–1979 CE

#9377

The collected works of C. G. Jung. 20 vols. Edited by Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham and Herbert Read. Translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull.

First collected edition, in English translation, published by the Bollingen Foundation created by Paul and Mary Mellon. Vol. 19, General bibliography, was revised and brought up to date for a second edition in 1990. V…

1961 CE

#12413

The toadstool millionaires.

Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.

1964 CE

#11422

Medicine and health in New Jersey: A history.

1966 CE

#8992

Adaptation and natural selection: A Critique of some current evolutionary thought.

1967 CE

#6643.2

The medical messiahs. A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America.

1967 CE

#12677

The role of the Nestorians and Muslims in the history of medicine.

1967 CE

#8155

The theory of island biogeography.

MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.

1974 CE

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

1975 CE

#10263

Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.

1976 CE

#8055

The naturalist in Britain: A social history.

1977 CE

#5145.1

The black death in the Middle East.

1978 CE

#13757

The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.

A history of contraception in the United States.

1981 CE

#6524.4

Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.

1982 CE

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

1983 CE

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

1984 CE

#2663

Galen on respiration and the arteries. An edition with English translation and commentary of De usu respirationis, An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, and De causis respirationis, by David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie.

Galen's system of medicine based on the minutiae of pulse variations persisted into the 18th century.

1984 CE

#9098

The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.

Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…

1985 CE

#11949

Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.

1986 CE

#6551.4

Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.

A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.

1986 CE

#8647

Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.

1987 CE

#6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

1987 CE

#11643

Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.

1989 CE

#12414

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

1989 CE

#9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

1990 CE

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

1991 CE

#9154

From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.

1992 CE

#9300

Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.

1992 CE

#10821

Vital signs: Medical realism in 19th-century fiction.

1994 CE

#8538

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

1995 CE

#8714

Quantification and the quest for medical certainty.

1995 CE

#11019

The private science of Louis Pasteur.

"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…

1995 CE

#8715

Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.

1996 CE

#9428

Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.

1996 CE

#9299

Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.

1997 CE

#8051

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.

1998 CE

#8560

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.

1998 CE

#13599

The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec

"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …

1999 CE

#12754

Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.

"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999 CE

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

2002 CE

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

2002 CE

#13127

Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.

2005 CE

#10026

The modern art of dying: A history of euthanasia in the United States.

2006 CE

#10366

All creatures: Naturalists, collectors, and biodiversity, 1850-1950.

2010 CE

#8430

The symptom and the subject: The emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece.