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1990–1999

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1998 CE

#14332

The structure of the potassium channel: Molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity.

The authors determined the first high resolution structure of an ion channel, called KcsA from the bacterium Streptomyces lividans. The structure that they revealed was perfectly adapted to allow entry of potassium io…

1998 CE

#8299

Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century copies of the Ars Medicine: A checklist and contents descriptions of the manuscripts.

1998 CE

#11164

To improve human health. A history of the Institute of Medicine.

Digital edition available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230742/ .

1998 CE

#9215

U. S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History: Books and Documents.

http://history.amedd.army.mil/books.html "The US Army Medical Department has an extensive and illustrious history. Brief historical highlights include maintaining one of the oldest regiments within the Army, providing…

1998 CE

#8171

U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Projects.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalprojects.html Also: Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the World's Largest Biomedical Library: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

1998 CE

#7960

Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.

Revised and updated edition, 2010.

1998 CE

#9296

Warts: Summary of Wart-cure survey for the Folklore Society.

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1998 CE–2005 CE

#13718

Geschichte der Pharmazie. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Von Rudolf Schmitz. Unter Mitarbeit von F.-J. Kuhlen. Band II: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Von Christoph Friedrich und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.

1998 CE–2014 CE

#9834

Suda On Line: Byzantine lexicography.

http://www.stoa.org/sol/ "In 1998 the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities organized by Ross Scaife sponsored the online collaborative annotated first English translation of the massive Byzanti…

1999 CE

#12564

Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, a Fifteenth-Century Armenian Natural Historian and Physician.

1999 CE

#8937

Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.

1999 CE

#14270

The tumour suppressor protein VHL targets hypoxia-inducible factors for oxygen-dependent proteolysis.

The focus of both Peter Ratcliffe’s and William Kaelin’s work, for which they shared the Nobel Prize with Gregg Semenza, was the relationship between pVHL and HIF. This led to an increased understanding of…

1999 CE

#8078

... And the pursuit of national health: The incremental strategy toward national health insurance in the United States of America.

1999 CE

#13460

A dictionary of the history of medicine.

1999 CE

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

1999 CE

#14262

A pdf Neuropeptide gene mutation and ablation of PDF neurons each cause severe abnormalities of behavioral circadian rhythms in Drosophila.

In 2017 Hall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.” Order of authorship…

1999 CE

#9602

A Pompeian herbal: Ancient and modern medicinal plants. Plant portraits by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson Meyer. Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemki and others.

1999 CE

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1999 CE

#10315

Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.

1999 CE

#8563

Albertus Magnus, On animals: A medieval summa zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols.

1999 CE

#8069

An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.

1999 CE

#10579

An illustrated history of malaria.

Concentrates on 19th century developments.

1999 CE

#8284

Ancient histories of medicine: Essays in medical doxography and historiography in classical antiquity, edited by Philip J. van der Eijk.

"...focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristi…

1999 CE

#12992

Anglo-Norman literature: A guide to texts and manuscripts.

This standard work catalogued nearly 1000 manuscripts, including medical texts.

1999 CE

#10571

Bibliografía médica americana y filipina: Periodo formativo. 2 vols.

1999 CE

#11632

Birth chairs, midwives and medicine.

1999 CE

#9048

Bosquejo de la historia de la medicina colombiana.

1999 CE

#8608

Cardiology: The evolution of the science and the art. Second edition.

1999 CE

#8767

Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920.

1999 CE

#9034

Cocaine: Global histories.

1999 CE

#10429

Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.

"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …

1999 CE

#12189

Corneal transplantation: A history in profiles. Edited by Mark J. Mannis and Avi A. Mannis.

1999 CE

#7640

Das Anatomische Museum Basel: Museumsführer.

1999 CE

#11064

Dictionnaire historique des médecins dans et hors de la médecine.

1999 CE

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

1999 CE

#9468

Drugs on trial: Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century.

"This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed in the course of the seventeenth and eig…

1999 CE

#13607

Dunant's dream: War, Switzerland and the history of the Red Cross.

1999 CE

#13080

Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).

1999 CE

#10903

Ehrlichia ewingii, a newly recognized agent of human Ehrlichiosis.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Buller, Arens, Hmiel. The authors confirmed that the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), is Ehrlichia ewingii, a pathogen carried by dogs and known in that …

1999 CE

#9761

Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.

1999 CE

#10093

Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.

Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…

1999 CE

#12754

Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.

"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…

1999 CE

#11925

Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.

1999 CE

#8752

Four centuries of clinical chemistry.

The first in-depth study of the development of this field that had such a profound impact on patient care beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.

1999 CE

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

1999 CE

#9127

Galen. On my own opinions. Galeni De propriis placitis. Edition, introduction and translation by Vivian Nutton. CMG 5.3.2.

De propriis placitis is Galen's final work in which he reflected on some of the fundamental medical problems that occupied him throughout his long career. "This treatise is not quite the comprehensive survey of a life…

1999 CE

#13315

Governing the health care state: A comparative study of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.

"This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern s…

1999 CE

#7083

Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.

1999 CE

#7616

Health, civilization and the state: A history of public health from ancient to modern times.