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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

DEATH & DYING

Exhibiting 61 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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2018 CE‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.
KAHL, Oliver IBN BAKHTYASHU, Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ( Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa) (940 – 1058)
1666 CEModo practico de embalsamar cuerpos defunctos, para preservarlos incorruptos....
PÉREZ FADRIQUE, Juan Eulogio
1767 CEA comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad, according to the different soils, situations, business of life, use of the non-naturals, &c. faithfully collected from, and attested by, above three hundred vouchers, and many of them for a long course of years, in two different Periods. To which is added a syllabus of the general States of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse.
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
2005 CEA concise history of euthanasia: Life, death, god, and medicine.
DOWBIGGIN, Ian Robert (1952 – )
1968 CEA definition of irreversible coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death.
HARVARD AD HOC COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH
1769 CEA discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments, on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital: Delivered before the president and governors of King's College, at the commencement, held on the 16th of May, 1769. As advice to those gentlemen who then received the first medical degrees conferred by that university.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1690 CEA letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
2003 CEA merciful end: The euthanasia movement in modern America.
DOWBIGGIN, Ian Robert (1952 – )
1996 CEA midwife through the dying process: Stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life.
QUILL, Timothy E. (1949 – )
2018 CEAge-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
CILEK, Laura CHOWELL, Gerardo FARIÑAS, Diego Ramiro
1742 CEAn mortis incertae signa minus incerta a chirurgicis quam ab aliis experimenti?
WINSLOW, Jacques-Bénigne [Jacob Benignus Winsløw] (1669 – 1760)
WINSLOW, Jacques-Bénigne [Jacob Benignus Winsløw] (1669 – 1760)
2001 CEAristotle on life and death
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
KING, R. A. H.
KING, R. A. H.
1927 CEBibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.
ROST, Hans (1877 – 1970)
1889 CECardiac failure and sudden death.
MACWILLIAM, John Alexander (1857 – 1937)
MACWILLIAM, John Alexander (1857 – 1937)
1952 CECare of the dying.
ALVAREZ, Walter Clement (1884 – 1978)
ALVAREZ, Walter Clement (1884 – 1978)
1895 CEDas Recht auf den Tod. Sociale Studie.
JOST, Adolf Lothar (1874 – 1908)
1826 CEDe euthanasia medica prolusio.
MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)
MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)
1707 CEDe subitaneis mortibus libri duo.
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)
2009 CEDeath before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
WOODS, Robert Ivor (1949 – 2011)
2014 CEDeath before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.
BELKIN, Gary
2012 CEDeath, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.
MILLER, Franklin G. (1948 – )
MILLER, Franklin G. (1948 – )
TRUOG, Robert D.
TRUOG, Robert D.
1981 CEDefining death: A report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
2015 CEDie Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.
STOLBERG, Michael (1957 – )
1856 CEDu suicide et de la folie suicide, considérés dans leur rapports avec la statistique, la médecine et la philosophie.
BRIERRE DE BOISMONT, Alexandre-Jacques-François (Brière de Boismont) (1797 – 1881)
2007 CEEncyclopédie sur la mort: La mort et la mort volontaire à travers les pays et les âges.
VOLANT, Éric Gustave (1926 – 2013)
2001 CEEncylopedia of death and dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman.
HOWARTH, Glennys (1954 – ) LEAMAN, Oliver (1950 – )
1887 CEEuthanasia; or, medical treatment in aid of an easy death.
MUNK, William (1816 – 1898)
1839 CEFirst annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
2009 CEForgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.
TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – ) MCCOY, Robert R.
1623 CEHistoria vitae & mortis. Sive, titulus secundus in historia naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam: Quae est instaurationis magnae pars tertia.
BACON, Francis (1561 – 1626)
BACON, Francis (1561 – 1626)
1994 CEHow we die: Reflections on life's final chapter.
NULAND, Sherwin Bernard (1930 – 2014)
NULAND, Sherwin Bernard (1930 – 2014)
1895 CELa mort et la mort subite.
BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
1752 CELettres sur la certitude des signes de la mort où l'on rassure les citoyens de la crainte d'être enterrés vivans ; avec des observations et des expériences sur les noyés.
LOUIS, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
LOUIS, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
1803 CEMedical ethics; or, a code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons. To which is added an appendix; containing a discourse on hospital duties ....
PERCIVAL, Thomas (1740 – 1804)
PERCIVAL, Thomas (1740 – 1804)
2007 CEMedicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.
LEWIS, Milton James
1763 CEMémoire 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, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
LOUIS, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
1682 CEMercurius 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.
BONET, Théophile (1620 – 1689)
2007 CEMorbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.
EBENSTEIN, Joanna
1770 CEObservations on the duties and offices of a physician; and on the method of prosecuting enquiries in philosophy.
GREGORY, John (1724 – 1773)
GREGORY, John (1724 – 1773)
1798 CEOf the treatment of the dying: Disturb him not - let him pass peaceably. IN: Medical histories and reflections, volume 3, 191-208.
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
1969 CEOn death and dying.
KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth (1926 – 2004)
2003 CEPalliative care perspectives.
HALLENBECK, James L.
2015 CEPalliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.
VANDERPOOL, Harold Young (1936 – )
1800 CERecherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort.
BICHAT, Marie François Xavier (1771 – 1802)
1642 CEReligio medici.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
2006 CESelected writings 1958-2004. Foreward by David Clark.
SAUNDERS, Dame Cicely Mary (1918 – 2005) CLARK, David (1953 – )
1840 CEThe anatomy of suicide.
WINSLOW, Forbes Benignus (1810 – 1874)
WINSLOW, Forbes Benignus (1810 – 1874)
1922 CEThe biology of death.
PEARL, Raymond (1879 – 1940)
PEARL, Raymond (1879 – 1940)
1999 CEThe black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.
PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )
1935 CEThe care of the aged, the dying and the dead.
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)