1980–1989

1986 CE

#8368

Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.

1986 CE

#13359

Das Aqrābādīn al-Qalānisī. Quellenkritische und begriffsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Arabisch-Pharmazeutischen Literatur.

1986 CE

#13185

Development of the ion X-ray tube: With a description of the Collection in the Medical Historical Museum, University of Copenhagen.

1986 CE

#6551.4

Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.

A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.

1986 CE

#6979

Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.

1986 CE

#8213

Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

Revised edition, 2004.

1986 CE

#9331

Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…

1986 CE

#10843

Fatal familial insomnia and dysautonomia with selective degeneration of thalamic nuclei.

The authors coined the name Fatal Familial Insomnia to describe a family cohort of individuals who were dying from a prion illness causing an inability to sleep. This disease has been characterized as one of the most …

1986 CE

#13990

Fluorescence detection in automated DNA sequence analysis.

Invention of the first semi-automated DNA sequencing machine by Leroy H. Hood, Lloyd M. Smith and colleagues. Abstract of the paper: "We have developed a method for the partial automation of DNA sequence analysis. Flu…

1986 CE

#8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

1986 CE

#9939

Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.

Using C. elegans to investigate whether there was a genetic program controlling cell death, or apoptosis, In 1986, Horvitz identified the first "death genes", ced-3 and ced-4. He showed that functional ced-3 and ced-4…

1986 CE

#8647

Health policies, health politics: The British and American experience, 1911-1965.

1986 CE

#12999

Hendrik Engel's alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries . Second, enlarged edition prepared by Pieter Smith with the assistance of A. P. M. Sanders and J. P. F. van der Veer.

Digital facsimile from dwc.knaw.nl at this link. Originally published in Bijdragen tot de dierkunde, v. 27, 1939.

1986 CE

#12963

Henrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany

1986 CE

#13786

Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.

1986 CE

#6357.9

Historical aspects of pediatric surgery. Prog. pediat. Surg., 20.

Well-documented illustrated series of historical articles by various authors.

1986 CE

#5768.8

History and tradition [of ophthalmic plastic surgery].

A collection of articles by various authors, including partial reprint of No. 5768.1 and 6005.

1986 CE

#9798

Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.

History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.

1986 CE

#4158.3

Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.

Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.

1986 CE

#8666

Inventing the NIH: Federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937.

1986 CE

#10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…

1986 CE

#10009

L'Art dentaire à travers la peinture.

1986 CE

#8743

Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.

Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

1986 CE

#13394

Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.

1986 CE

#9785

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

1986 CE

#9998

Medical care and the general practitioner 1750-1850.

1986 CE

#11323

Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.

"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)

1986 CE

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1986 CE

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

1986 CE

#197.2

Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.

Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…

1986 CE

#7680

Natural history and the new world, 1524-1770. An annotated bibliography of printed materials in the library of the American Philosophical Society.

1986 CE

#11476

New perspectives on the medical consequences of nuclear war.

Leaf helped found Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in 1961 and became a prominent member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). This paper highlighted "new research on estimat…

1986 CE

#13784

Of birds and Texas.

Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…

1986 CE

#7475

Opere scientifiche. Traduzione integrale dai testi originali. Coordinatore Luciano Casella. Revisione e note a cura di Enrico Coturri. 2 vols.

Steno's collected works translated from Latin into Italian. Reproduces Steno's original engraved illustrations, plus others from the time (some in color).

1986 CE

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.

1986 CE

#2702.5

Pioneers and early years: A history of British radiology.

Well-illustrated and carefully documented, incorporating detailed biographies of pioneers. Covers the history before 1930.

1986 CE

#11851

Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.

"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…

1986 CE

#7213

Specific enzymatic amplification of DNA in vitro: The polymerase chain reaction.

Improvements that Mullis made to the polymerase chain reaction in 1983 enabled PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel la…

1986 CE

#8549

Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.

1986 CE

#14021

The anatomy of the infant head.

1986 CE

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific …

1986 CE

#10351

The end of life: Euthanasia and morality.

Full text available from Jamesrachels.org at this link.

1986 CE

#6786.32

The finest instruments ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature; 1700-1939.

1986 CE

#1588.22

The history of blood gases, acids and bases.

The authors were prominent investigators in the field.

1986 CE

#3726

The history of scurvy and vitamin C.

1986 CE

#1716.2

The history of statistics: The measurement of uncertainty before 1900.

The first comprehensive history of statistics from about 1700 to 1900.

1986 CE

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

1986 CE

#11518

The library of Dr. John Webster: The making of a seventeenth century radical. Medical History supplement no. 6. Edited by Peter Elmer.

1986 CE

#11635

The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.

Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.

1986 CE

#8606

The man behind the syndrome.

Portraits and biographies, emphasizing genetic syndromes. Followed by the authors' The person behind the syndrome (1997).