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1990–1999

809 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1997 CE

#9060

Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.

1997 CE

#9369

Dieting for an emperor: A translation of books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations with an introduction and commentary by Mark Grant.

1997 CE

#9457

Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

Second edition, significantly revised and expanded, 2016.

1997 CE

#7722

Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.

A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.

1997 CE

#13054

Five centuries of veterinary medicine: A short-title catalog of the Washington State University Veterinary History Collection.

Checklist of over 1800 books, journals, manuscripts, illustrations, and other rare documents.

1997 CE

#9609

Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.

1997 CE

#8168

Gallica: La bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Gallica includes printed materials, graphic materials, and sound recordings. These materials are royalty-free and available free of charge when used strictly for private purposes. http://gallica.bnf.fr/

1997 CE

#11968

Gardens of empire: Botanical institutions of the Victorian British Empire.

Provides "a detailed analysis of the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120 botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras, Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to M…

1997 CE

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

1997 CE

#12849

Histoire de l'orthodontie.

1997 CE

#13604

Histoire du Collège des médecins du Québec, 1847-1997.

1997 CE

#12856

Historia de l'odontologia.

1997 CE

#6978

History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.

1997 CE

#8237

Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.

1997 CE

#12759

Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.

Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the mo…

1997 CE

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1997 CE

#12172

John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].

1997 CE

#9407

Kindly medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911.

"Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines …

1997 CE

#7969

Landmarks in cardiac surgery. By Stephen Westaby, with Cecil Bosher.

History and biographical sketches, plus reprints of key papers.

1997 CE

#9137

Law and the American health care system.

Second revised edition, 2012, with extensive discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

1997 CE

#11050

Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.

1997 CE

#10169

Life in the balance: Emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death.

1997 CE

#7530

Literatur & Medizin: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich Heine.

1997 CE

#9344

Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.

1997 CE

#12020

Medicine and morals in the enlightenment: John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush.

"Modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world is commonly thought to derive from the medical philosophy of the Scotsman John Gregory (1725-1773) and his younger associates, the English Dissenter Thomas Percival…

1997 CE

#8749

Moving questions: A history of membrane transport and bioenergetics.

"This book describes half a century of progress in two mainstream areas of biological research: membrane transport, initially a focus of physiologists, and oxidative phosphorylation, initially a focus of biochemists. …

1997 CE

#8169

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek.

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ "Since 1997, the Munich Digitization Center has been offering the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) on the Internet. It is the central innovation and production unit…

1997 CE

#7181

Naked to the bone. Medical imaging in the twentieth century.

1997 CE

#14131

Proteome research: New frontiers in functional genomics.

Order of editorship in the original publication: Wilkins, Williams, Appel, Hochstrasser. "Recent advances in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, protein microanalytsis and bioinformatics have made the large-scale, sy…

1997 CE

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

1997 CE

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…

1997 CE

#11069

Science is not a quiet life: Unravelling the atomic mechanism of haemoglobin.

Reprints landmark papers with commentary by Perutz.

1997 CE

#7370

Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.

1997 CE

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

1997 CE

#10361

Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.

1997 CE

#8734

Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.

1997 CE

#7219

The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine empire.

When first published in 1985 this was the first monograph devoted solely to the history of Byzantine hospitals. Reissued with an extensive new introduction by the author in 1997.

1997 CE

#8629

The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.

1997 CE

#14274

The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway.

"Abstract: Capsaicin, the main pungent ingredient in ‘hot’ chilli peppers, elicits a sensation of burning pain by selectively activating sensory neurons that convey information about noxious stimuli to the…

1997 CE

#12070

The changing face of death. Historical accounts of death and disposal.

1997 CE

#8051

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.

1997 CE

#11408

The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Blattner, Plunkett, Bloch.... Complete genome sequence of E. coli, the first complete genome sequence of an organism. Following p. 1462 there are two large, unpaginated…

1997 CE

#11822

The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.

1997 CE

#7463

The eye of the artist.

1997 CE

#7069

The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.

1997 CE

#8014

The history of the United States Army Medical Service Corps.

From the American revolution to 1994.

1997 CE

#9364

The illustrated Yellow Emperor's canon of medicine. Compiled and illustrated by Zhou Chuncai and Han Yazhou.

Text in Chinese and English. A very accessible illustrated popularization— almost in the style of a comic book— of the Yellow Emperor's classic.

1997 CE

#8264

The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1997 CE

#13229

The noblest animate motion: Speech, physiology and medicine in pre-Cartesian linguistic thought.

1997 CE

#9463

The powerful placebo: From ancient priest to modern physician.