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1980–1989

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1987 CE

#11643

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

1987 CE

#7256

Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.

Cann's discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother, known as Mitochrondrial Eve, who lived <200,000 years ago, became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most wi…

1987 CE

#2319.2

Morbid appearances: the anatomy of pathology in the early nineteenth century.

1987 CE

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987 CE

#10897

Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.

1987 CE

#12124

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur

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

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1987 CE

#13950

Nucleosomes inhibit the initiation of transcription but allow chain elongation with the displacement of histones.

Within the nucleosome Kornberg found that roughly 200 bp of DNA are wrapped around an octamer of histone proteins. With Yahli Lorch, Kornberg showed that a nucleosome on a promoter prevents the initiation of transcrip…

1987 CE

#7304

Nucleotide sequence of the iap gene, responsible for alkaline phosphatase isozyme conversion in Escherichia coli, and identification of the gene product.

The DNA sequence of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) discovered. The function of the interrupted clustered repeats was not known at the time. With H. Shinagawa, K Makino, M Amemura, a…

1987 CE

#12997

Operation Everest II: Man at extreme altitude.

In 1985 Houston, Sutton and Cymerman and colleagues in Canada used a decompression chamber to simulate a seven week ascent of Mt. Everest. This appears to be their first paper summarizing the overall results. Many pub…

1987 CE

#8601

Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.

1987 CE

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1987 CE

#1588.23

Renal physiology: People and ideas.

A collective work on the history of renal physiology with thematic chapters by the editors and other prominent investigators.

1987 CE

#8671

Ross A. McFarland collection in aerospace medicine and human factors engineering. Catalogue of the library.

1987 CE

#13931

Site-directed mutagenesis by gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells.

In 2007 Capecchi shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of em…

1987 CE

#7358

Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.

1987 CE

#13940

Targeted correction of a mutant HPRT gene in mouse embryonic stem cells.

Smithies discovered, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previ…

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987 CE

#2188.4

The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987 CE

#6596.61

The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.

1987 CE

#12211

The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.

"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…

1987 CE

#7857

The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.

1987 CE

#8315

The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.

1987 CE

#10212

The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.

1987 CE

#9883

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

1987 CE

#8021

The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

1987 CE

#10242

The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.

http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …

1987 CE

#9212

United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987 CE

#197.3

Victorian anthropology.

1987 CE

#10264

Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.

1987 CE–1991 CE

#9047

Bibliographia médica hispánica. 1475-1950. 9 vols.

1988 CE

#12349

The politics of prevention: Anti-Vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.

1988 CE

#9970

A history of surgery: With emphasis on the Netherlands.

1988 CE

#10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…

1988 CE

#7952

A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery.

With Jin Hou, E. A. Jonckheere, and S. Hyati.

1988 CE

#9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

1988 CE

#13682

Aids: The burdens of history. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

1988 CE

#11281

An informal history of W. B. Saunders Company.

1988 CE

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988 CE

#10997

Bibliography of Australian medicine and health services to 1950. 4 vols.

"A joint project of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Department of Community Services and Health."

1988 CE

#10605

Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle.

1988 CE

#11141

Compendium of human anatomic variation: Text, atlas, and world Literature.

A recent edition is Bergman's Comprehensive encyclopedia of human anatomic variation edited by R. Shane Tubbs, Mohammadali M. Shoja, and Marios Loukas. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

1988 CE

#8640

Critical care nursing: A history

1988 CE

#12520

Das Ergebnis des Nachdenkens über die Behandlung der Augenkrankheiten von Fath ad-Dīn al-Qaisī. Übersetzung des arabischen Textes, Kommentar von Hans-Dieter Bischoff.

1988 CE

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1988 CE

#13357

Dioscurides triumphans: Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols.

1988 CE

#10015

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.

1988 CE

#8066

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

1988 CE

#11835

Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire.