1980–1989
677 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1982 CE
#12244
Doppler ultrasound in cardiology: Physical principles and clinical applications.
1982 CE
#9227
Dust off: Army aeromedical evacuation in Vietnam.
Digital text available from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
1982 CE
#12469
Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.
"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-…
1982 CE
#11217
Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.
1982 CE
#8737
Health science books, 1876-1982. 4 vols.
One of the last very large printed works of this type: "Over 132,000 English-language titles classified by some 28,000 Library of Congress subject headings. 'A unique feature ... is that, where possible, equivalent Na…
1982 CE
#13614
Health/medicine and the faith traditions: An inquiry into religion and medicine. Edited by Martin E. Marty and Kenneth L. Vaux.
1982 CE
#10659
Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease.
First successful heart-lung transplant, performed on March 9, 1981, after nearly four years of testing on primates. Abstract "We report our initial experience with three patients who received heart-lung transplants. T…
1982 CE
#8187
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
1982 CE
#10842
Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.
Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982. Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-aut…
1982 CE
#8436
Iohannis Alexandrini Commentaria in librum De sectis Galeni. Edited by C. D. Pritchet.
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Edited from the Latin translation by Burgundio of the Greek text first published in the 1490 edition of Galen's works.
1982 CE
#6510.4
Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.
1982 CE
#13179
John Gould, the bird man. A chronology and bibliography by Gordon C. Sauer.
1982 CE
#6610.16
La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gerard de Lairese, peintre en Hollande – Lairesse, Bidloo, Cowper.
1982 CE
#6786.25
La médecine médiévale à travers les manuscrits de la Bibliothéque Nationale.
Annotated exhibition catalogue, with introductory essays, describing 99 exceptionally important medieval medical manuscripts as well as a few very early medallions.
1982 CE
#11055
Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques
Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.
1982 CE
#11328
Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.
"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…
1982 CE
#6623.4
Literature and medicine: an annotated bibliography. Revised edition.
Annotated bibliography of medical references in Western literature from the ancient world to time of writing. Emphasis is on summaries of the medical content. Editions cited are usually modern and always in English,
1982 CE
#10782
Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?
Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered…
1982 CE
#10140
Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.
In 1997 Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection." In his 1982 paper Prusiner proposed a completely novel explanation for th…
1982 CE
#6885
Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage lambda.
Sanger and colleagues sequenced the entire genome of bacteriophage lambda using a random shotgun technique. This was the first whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequence.
1982 CE
#11037
Origins of clinical chemistry: The evolution of protein analysis.
1982 CE
#13932
Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena.
Discovery of ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes). Cech discovered that RNA itself could cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. "In the 1970s, Cech had been studying the splicing of RNA in…
1982 CE
#10254
Space physiology and medicine. Edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and James F. Parker, Jr.
1982 CE
#10046
Splicing life: A report on the social and ethical issues of genetic engineering with human beings.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1982 CE
#3979.1
The discovery of insulin.
1982 CE
#11769
The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline.
1982 CE
#11294
The gates of memory.
The autobiography of the great surgeon, bibliographer, scholar and book collector.
1982 CE
#258.12
The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.
An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.
1982 CE
#12492
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
1982 CE
#10403
The history of medicine in Alabama.
1982 CE
#7676
The museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
1982 CE
#10816
The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.
Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patie…
1982 CE
#5768.5
The progress of plastic surgery: An introductory history.
1982 CE
#6596.6
The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.
1982 CE
#12595
The spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.
The authors reported a detailed and complete analysis of the original slides of the brain done by Afons Jakob, and provided a partial translation into English, with a detailed analysis of Jakob's clinical description,…
1982 CE
#145.2
The strategy of life: teleology and mechanics in nineteenth century German biology.
1982 CE
#9365
The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.
1982 CE
#14266
Tumor-specific antigen of murine T-lymphoma defined with monoclonal antibody.
In 1982 Allison discovered the T-cell receptor. Order of authorship in the original publication: Allison, Bloch, McIntyre.
1982 CE
#5733.4
Under the influence. A history of nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia.
The most comprehensive work on the subject. Articles reprinted primarily from Brit. J. Anaesth., with new introduction and index.
1982 CE
#11414
Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.
Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.
1982 CE–1986 CE
#11940
Die Entwicklung der Rezept- und Arzneibuchliteratur. Vol. 1: Altertum und Mittelalter. 1982. Vol. 2: Die Autoren, ihre Werke und die Fortschritte im 16. Jahrhundert. 1984 Vol. 3: Die Arzneibücher und schweizerischen Pharmakopöen vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. 1986.
1982 CE–1987 CE
#9793
Histoire de la médecine aux armées. Par Pierre Lefebvre, Jean Guillermand et Albert Fabre. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution. Vol. 2: De la révolution française au conflit mondial de 1914. Vol. 3: De 1914 à nos jours.
1982 CE–2012 CE
#12213
Women scientists in America. 3 vols. Vol. 1: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Vol. 2: Before affirmative action, 1940-1972. Vol. 3: Forging a new world since 1972.
1983 CE
#6996
Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The …
1983 CE
#8745
"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.
1983 CE
#8670
A catalogue of the manuscripts and archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Edited by Rudolf Hirsch.
1983 CE
#12663
A papillomavirus DNA from a cervical carcinoma and its prevalence in cancer biopsy samples from different geographic regions,
Zur Hausen and colleageus identified HPV 16 DNA in cervical cancer tumors by Southern blot hybridization. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1983 CE
#7871
A short history of breast cancer.
1983 CE
#9997
A study of the English apothecary from 1660 to 1760, with special reference to the provinces.
Medical History Supplement No. 3. Digital facsimile from discovery.ucl.ac.uk at this link.
1983 CE
#6786.27
An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Books and printed documents 1557-1821 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, and manuscripts from the Americas 1575-1927. 540 items, usually with detailed notes.