1980–1989
677 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1985 CE
#10319
In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity.
1985 CE
#13736
Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.
Jeffreys and associates discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling.
1985 CE
#8158
Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal Cl0x/Nox interaction.
Discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. In December 2016 the full text of the paper was available from ciesin.org at this link.
1985 CE
#8374
Learning to heal: The development of American medical education.
1985 CE
#8958
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.
1985 CE
#9854
Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
1985 CE
#8123
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
1985 CE
#11533
Medical thermometry--a short history.
Available from PubMedCentral at this link.
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
#6524.5
Medieval medical miniatures.
1985 CE
#5019.20
Neurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.
Brief biographical essays by various authors, edited by Bucy. The companion volume, Modern neurosurgical giants (1986) includes articles on living neurosurgeons, written by colleagues. Neither volume includes bibliogr…
1985 CE
#6639.11
Nursing: the finest art. An illustrated history.
The most elaborately illustrated history available.
1985 CE
#9835
Perseus Digital Library. Gregory R. Crane, Editor-in-Chief.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ "The Perseus Digital Library Project began at Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts in 1985. Though the project was ostensibly about Greek and Roman literature and cu…
1985 CE
#13936
Repetitive zinc-binding domains in the protein transcription factor IIIA from Xenopus oocytes.
Discovery of Zinc fingers, a protein structural motif. "Zinc fingers were first identified in a study of transcription in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis in the laboratory of Aaron Klug. A study of the transcr…
1985 CE
#10306
Scalpels and sabers: Nineteenth century medicine in Texas.
1985 CE
#10965
Serologic identification and characterization of a macaque T-lymphotropic retrovirus closely related to HTLV-III.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kanki, McLane... Essex. This paper was followed in the issue of Science by: Daniel, M., Letvi, N. L., King, N.W., "Isolation of T-cell tropic HTLV-3 - like retrovirus from ma…
1985 CE
#10789
Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.
First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…
1985 CE
#8228
Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge.
Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.
1985 CE
#11060
Structure of the protein subunit in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis at 3 Å resolution.
Discovery of the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in certain photosynthetic bacteria, called the photosynthetic reaction center. This was the first elucidation of the 3D crystal structure of any …
1985 CE
#1757.2
Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878.
1985 CE
#10430
Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.
"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…
1985 CE
#6986
Symposium on Byzantine medicine. Edited by John Scarborough.
Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 38, 1984.
1985 CE
#11377
The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…
1985 CE
#145.91
The background of ecology: concept and theory.
1985 CE
#1588.21
The brain machine: The development of neurophysiological thought.
Translation of Le cerveau-machine: physiologie de la volonté, Paris, 1983.
1985 CE
#8883
The collected essays of Sir William Osler. 3 vols. Edited by John P. McGovern and Charles G. Roland.
Vol. 1: The philosophical essays. Vol. 2: The educational essays. Vol. 3: The historical and biographical essays.
1985 CE
#5768.7
The creation of aesthetic plastic surgery.
Reprints useful papers from Aesthetic plast. Surg., 1976-85. No index.
1985 CE
#10094
The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.
1985 CE
#9133
The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.
Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …
1985 CE
#13727
The management of smallpox eradication in India.
1985 CE
#7558
The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.
A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.
1985 CE
#1931.8
The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 7th ed.
Includes useful historical information.
1985 CE
#9889
The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
1985 CE
#6786.29
The two Sydenham Societies. A history and bibliography of the medical classics published by the Sydenham Society and the New Sydenham Society (1844-1911).
1985 CE
#11279
Two hundred years of publishing: A history of the oldest publishing company in the United States - Lea & Febiger, 1785-1985.
1985 CE
#8882
William Osler's collected papers on the cardiovascular system. Edited by W. Bruce Fye.
Includes a previously unpublished essay by Maude Abbott, "Osler's contributions to our knowledge of heart disease."
1985 CE
#11509
William Withering and the Foxglove: A bicentennial selection of letters from the Osler bequest to the Royal Society of Medicine, together with a transcription of 'An Account of the Foxglove' and an introductory essay. Edited by Ronald D. Mann.
Details William Osler's acquisition of the letters and his donation of them to the Royal Society of Medicine.
1985 CE–1995 CE
#8325
Stephanus of Athens: Commentary on Hippocrates' aphorisms. Edited and translated by Leendert G. Westerink. Vol. 1: Section 1-2; Vol. 2: Sections 3-4; Vol. 3: Sections 5-6.
Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 11, 1, 3, 1-3.
1985 CE–1998 CE
#7080
Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 2 vols.
1986 CE
#10987
"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.
1986 CE
#6786.30
A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
1986 CE
#9536
A history and theory of informed consent.
"In collaboration with Nancy M. P. King."
1986 CE
#534.42
A history of embryology. British Society for Developmental Biology Symposia 8. Edited by T. J. Horder, J. A. Wikowski and C. C. Wylie.
A survey of the history of developmental biology from 1880.
1986 CE
#13974
A human DNA segment with properties of the gene that predisposes to retinoblastoma and osteosarcoma.
Isolation of the first human tumor suppressor gene. Order of authorship in the original publication: Friend, Bernards, Rogeli, Weinberg, Rapaport, Albert, Dryja.
1986 CE
#7957
A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.
1986 CE
#11106
Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1986 CE
#3705.5
Antique dental instruments.
1986 CE
#14070
Bibliography of publications in legal medicine & forensic sciences relating to Sri Lanka 1811 - 1984.
1986 CE
#8217
Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.
Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…
1986 CE
#7432
