1980–1989

1986 CE

#6623.51

The medical mind of Shakespeare.

1986 CE

#8695

The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide.

"The first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps" (Wikipedia).

1986 CE

#7283

The origin of the human race.

First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…

1986 CE

#6810

The Oxford companion to medicine. 2 vols.

A dictionary, biographical dictionary, and encyclopedia covering selected aspects of the theory, practice and profession of medicine, including history, by the editors and 150 notable contributors. Produced in the sty…

1986 CE

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1986 CE

#11042

The T4 glycoprotein is a cell-surface receptor for the AIDS virus.

Order of authorship in the original paper: McDougal, Maddon, Dalgleish. The authors discovered that the T4 lymphocyte cell has an outer glycoprotein on its surface that specifically acts as the receptor for HIV. Witho…

1986 CE

#9464

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

1986 CE

#6786.31

The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. history of medicine collections: Books and manuscripts

Describes approximately 13,000 books chiefly acquired for the Moody Medical Library by Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Includes the Alfred H. Whittacker library on the history of occupational medicine..

1986 CE

#12356

The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.

Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …

1986 CE

#10201

The Visible Human Project.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html "The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional r…

1986 CE

#10649

Theories of human evolution: A century of debate, 1844-1944.

1986 CE

#10095

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

1987 CE

#6927

Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.

The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.

1987 CE

#13165

"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.

Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.

1987 CE

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

1987 CE

#12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

1987 CE

#9734

A history of medicine in Sri Lanka--from the earliest times to 1948.

1987 CE

#12542

A history of the New Zealand Medical Association: The first 100 years.

1987 CE

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1987 CE

#10431

American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.

1987 CE

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what wa…

1987 CE

#6565.02

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

1987 CE

#8425

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et Haut Moyen Âge.

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins: Antiquité et haut moyen âge : Premier supplément, 1986-1999, Volume 2 by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Université de Saint-Etienne, 2000.

1987 CE

#9106

Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.

1987 CE

#461

British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.

Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.

1987 CE

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

1987 CE

#13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.

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.

1987 CE

#14116

Cognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (Leuko-Araiosis).

"Abstract: As part of a prospective clinicopathologic study, a cohort of 105 "normal" elderly volunteers was investigated with computed tomographic scans, psychometric testing (Extended Scale for Dementia [ESD]) and n…

1987 CE

#12237

Compensatory enlargement of human atherosclerotic coronary arteries.

"Glagov remodeling" or the "Glagov phenomenon." In 1987 Glagov showed that as atherosclerotic plaque began to build up within an artery, the arterial wall would expand enough to maintain normal blood flow. Only after …

1987 CE

#7136

Correction of astigmatism with the excimer laser.

In 1985 Seiler performed the first large area ablation in a human eye to remove a corneal scar, having previously performed T-incisions with an excimer laser to correct for astigmatism.

1987 CE

#12107

Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.

1987 CE

#7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

1987 CE

#11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link .

1987 CE

#11246

DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non…

1987 CE

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987 CE

#11585

Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century

"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …

1987 CE

#8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

1987 CE

#8048

Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…

1987 CE

#3666.8

Histoire illustrée de l’hépato-gastro-entérologie de l’antiquité à nos jours.

1987 CE

#3979.2

Histoire illustrée du diabète de l’antiquité à nos jours.

1987 CE

#12193

History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.

1987 CE

#10899

Human infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Maeda, Markowitz, Hawley. First description of Ehrlichiosis in humans, description of the organism, and successful drug treatment with doxycycline. The pathogen was lat…

1987 CE

#11192

Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.

Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1987 CE

#8842

Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .

1987 CE

#9055

La medicina científica y el siglo XIX mexicano.

1987 CE

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

1987 CE

#7870

Les historiens français de la médecine au XIXe siècle et leur bibliographie.

1987 CE

#12957

Liber minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrología anónimo Salernitano: Edicíon crítica, traducción y notas, by Enrique Montero Cartelle.

1987 CE

#8270

Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner