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50 entries published in this place. (Berkeley, US)

1934 CE

#11358

Exhibition of first editions of epochal achievements in the history of science.

Briefly annotated listings of 114 classics under the headings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and the Hearst Medical Papyrus. Strangely, several major medical and biological cl…

1939 CE

#2525

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

1955 CE

#10852

The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1964 CE

#4509.1

A short history of the gout and the rheumatic diseases.

1970 CE

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

Revised edition, 1990.

1970 CE

#1766.608

The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.

1976 CE

#8497

Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.

1976 CE

#9731

Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.

1976 CE

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

1978 CE

#6623.3

Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.

The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.

1978 CE

#1766.610

The medical profession in mid-Victorian London.

1979 CE

#2682.53

Antique medical instruments

Well-illustrated work coving the history of medical and surgical instruments from the Middle Ages to 1870, with emphasis on pre-19th century material. Includes useful information on instrument makers.

1979 CE

#8128

Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.

The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …

1980 CE

#1588.17

Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.

1980 CE

#9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

1983 CE

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1984 CE

#258.13

Evolution: The history of an idea.

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 2009.

1984 CE

#8460

Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.

1985 CE

#6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…

1985 CE

#10094

The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.

1986 CE

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1986 CE

#10095

Who goes first? The story of self-experimentation in medicine.

1987 CE

#1588.24

Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.

Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes.

1987 CE

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1989 CE

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

1992 CE

#8637

Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control

1992 CE

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1993 CE

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1994 CE

#7239

Jews, medicine and medieval society.

1994 CE

#7561

Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.

1995 CE

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1996 CE

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1999 CE

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

1999 CE

#10093

Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.

Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…

2000 CE

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

2000 CE

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

2001 CE

#10256

Spacefaring: The human dimension.

2003 CE

#6879

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text.

2004 CE

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

2004 CE

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…

2006 CE

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2007 CE

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

2011 CE

#8340

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An annotated translation of Huang Di's inner classic- Basic questions. 2 vols.

2012 CE

#7961

Roots of ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel.

2015 CE

#10275

A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.

"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…

2016 CE

#10096

Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.

2016 CE

#8338

Huang Di Ne Jing Ling Shu. The ancient classic on needle therapy. The complete Chinese text with annotated English translation.

2016 CE

#8339

Nan Jing: The classic of difficult issues. Second edition, revised and updated.