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1990–1999

809 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1999 CE

#7153

Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

1999 CE

#7833

Histoire de la médecine en Arménie: De l'antiquité à nos jours.

Translated into English as The history Armenian medicine from antiquity to the present day (2007).

1999 CE

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

1999 CE

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

1999 CE

#10954

Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.

First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …

1999 CE

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

1999 CE

#11065

Les musées de médecine: Histoire, patrimoine et grandes figures de la médecine en France.

1999 CE

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

1999 CE

#14233

Médecins Sans Frontières. Nobel Lecture.

In 1999 Orbinsky accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Médecins Sans Frontières “in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." He delivered the organization…

1999 CE

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

1999 CE

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

1999 CE

#8053

Medicine and society in early modern Europe.

Second edition, 2010.

1999 CE

#10977

Medicine in Maryland: The practice and profession, 1799-1999.

1999 CE

#7973

MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching.

Second edition, 2006.

1999 CE

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

1999 CE

#7890

Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.

1999 CE

#11234

Microbiology: A centenary perspective. Edited by Wolfgang K. Joklik, Lars G. Ljungdahl, Alison D. O'Brien, Alexander von Graevenitz, Charles Yanofsky.

Classic 20th century papers presented with introductory notes and Prefaces to the following 5 sections: 1. Diagnostic Microbiology and Epidemiology, 2. Pathogenesis and Host Response Mechanisms, 3. General and Applied…

1999 CE

#10338

Natural history investigations in South Carolina from colonial times to the present.

1999 CE

#13510

Not just any medical school: The science, practice, and teaching of medicine at the University of Michigan 1850-1941.

1999 CE

#8625

Nurturing children: A history of pediatrics

1999 CE

#11040

Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Gao, Bailes, Robertson, Hahn. Demonstration, led by Hahn, that HIV-1 originated specifically in the chimpanzee--a mutant of the chimp SIV (SIV-cpz) which acquired mutations s…

1999 CE

#10953

Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.

On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…

1999 CE

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

1999 CE

#10179

Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.

The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.

1999 CE

#13513

Physicians and surgeons in Glasgow, 1599-1858: The history of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

1999 CE

#8874

Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany

1999 CE

#7838

Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.

1999 CE

#8721

Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine.

1999 CE

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

1999 CE

#13585

Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.

"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…

1999 CE

#8337

Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.

1999 CE

#9745

Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.

1999 CE

#7371

Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999 CE

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1999 CE

#8141

The American medical ethics revolution: How the AMA's code of ethics has transformed physicians' relationships to patients, professionals, and society.

1999 CE

#9193

The birth of the cell.

1999 CE

#10053

The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

1999 CE

#10936

The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fi'l-tibb). Adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar from translations of Volume 1 by O. Cameron Gruner and Mazar H. Shah. Correlated with the Arabic by Jay R. Crook with notes by O. Cameron Gruner.

1999 CE

#12516

The diffusion of Greco-Roman medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. Edited by J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J. L. Gueriguian.

1999 CE

#14077

The faces of homoeopathy.

"The history of homeopathic medicine as seen through the people who contributed towards its development. Focusing on homeopathy in the USA and in the UK, it traces the development of the practice through the 1800s, th…

1999 CE

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

1999 CE

#10073

The History of Phrenology on the Web.

http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/overview.htm This is the most comprehensive reference source available on phrenology. Van Wyhe divides it into the following following sections: Overview Organs The Phrenological …

1999 CE

#11166

The Medical Follow-up Agency: The first fifty years 1946–1996.

"The Medical Follow-up Agency is a national treasure for veterans and for long-term studies of health. Its data resources provide incomparable opportunities to follow very important populations and to ask creative que…

1999 CE

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

1999 CE

#8694

The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.

1999 CE

#13589

The saint.

https://newrepublic.com/article/116863/sherwin-nuland-william-osler One of the best late 20th century summaries of Osler's life and significance in the form of a review of Michael Bliss's Sir William Osler: A life in …

1999 CE

#8722

The surgeon's stage: A history of the operating room.

Perhaps the only book on this special subject; numerous illustrations, mostly in color.

1999 CE

#11278

The works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD, Sir William Osler's alter ego. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard L. Golden.

1999 CE

#8698

Time to heal: American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care.