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1990–1999

809 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1990 CE

#13391

The condom industry in the United States.

1990 CE

#8684

The development of American gastroenterology

1990 CE

#7966

The emergence of bacterial genetics.

1990 CE

#5019.22

The founders of child neurology. Edited by Stephen Ashwal.

125 biographical essays, with portraits and bibliographies, documenting the history of child neurology from the 17th century to the present.

1990 CE

#13343

The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.

1990 CE

#10870

The health of immigrant Australia: A social perspective.

1990 CE

#9534

The history of endocrine surgery.

With Friesen, Stanley R.; Johnston, Ivan D.A.; and Sellwood, Ronald A.

1990 CE

#8690

The history of orthopaedics: An account of the study and practice of orthopaedics from the earliest times to the modern era.

1990 CE

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1990 CE

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

1990 CE

#10173

The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.

1990 CE

#2662.5

The theory and practice on oncology. Historical evolution and present principles.

1990 CE

#9130

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Canon of Greek authors and works. Third edition.

"In addition to digitizing texts, the TLG developed the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, originally a "registry" of all works included or about to be included in the corpus. Over time the Canon developed into an indi…

1990 CE

#6786.34

Thornton’s medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences.

A highly useful work, originally published by John L. Thornton (b. 1913) in 1949. This new edition includes the following fully-documented historical essays: P. Jones, Medical books before the invention of printing. D…

1990 CE

#12301

Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Kandler, Wheelis.) Introduction of the three-domain biological classification system that divides cellular life into three forms or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, …

1990 CE

#7165

Women of Science. Righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes.

1991 CE

#11236

A bibliography of Johann Remmelin the anatomist

1991 CE

#10767

A conceptual history of modern embryology. Edited by Scott F. Gilbert. Developmental biology: A comprehensive synthesis, vol. 7.

1991 CE

#8343

A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.

"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…

1991 CE

#11977

A history of botanical nomenclature.

Pages 42-46 are an extremely detailed, briefly annotated bibliography.

1991 CE

#9760

A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.

"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…

1991 CE

#9851

A history of experimental virology. Translated by Elvira Reckendorf.

1991 CE

#9356

A history of regeneration research: Milestones in the evolution of a science. Edited by Charles E. Dinsmore.

1991 CE

#13930

A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition.

"In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were approxi…

1991 CE

#13683

Aids: The making of a chronic disease. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

1991 CE

#11165

America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.

"Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward …

1991 CE

#9456

An introduction to the medical history of Ethiopia.

1991 CE

#7765

Asceticism and healing in ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist monastery.

1991 CE

#11140

Atlas of human anatomy in cross section.

"We were impressed with the magnitude and depth of the work by Eycleshymer and Schoemaker, A Cross-Section Anatomy, published by D. Appleton Company in 1911, and now out of print. As a consequence, our goal was to pro…

1991 CE

#9262

Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.

1991 CE

#10265

Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.

Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.

1991 CE

#10011

Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.

1991 CE

#14225

Brass plate and brazen impudence: Dental practice in the provinces 1755-1855.

1991 CE

#14208

Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.

Eleven years after publication of No. 14207, Alan Hildebrand, working with Luis and Walter Alvarez, proposed that the Chicxulub Crater, discovered by Antonio-Camargo-Zanoguera and Glen T. Penfield during the 1970s, wa…

1991 CE

#12650

Color atlas/text of ophthalmic parasitology. Edited by B. H. Kean, Tsieh Sun, and Robert M. Ellsworth.

Probably the first ophthalmic textbook devoted exclusively to parasitic infections, discussing diseases caused by protozoa, nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, and arthropods.

1991 CE

#6886

Complementary DNA sequencing: "expressed sequence tags" and the human genome project.

Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) for DNA sequencing. By Adams, M.D., Kelley, J.M., Gocayne, J.D., Dubnick, M., Polymeropoulos, M.H., Xiao, H., Merril, C.R., Wu, A., Olde, B., Moreno, R., Kerlavage, A.R., McCombie, W.R.,…

1991 CE

#10983

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.

1991 CE

#12521

Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn-al-Baitār: Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Pfanzensynonymik des Mittelalters. Edited and translated by Albert Dietrich. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., fol. 3, no. 191).

1991 CE

#9362

Edizione nazionale delle opere di Antonio Vallisneri.

This is an ongoing project with many volumes and many editors and several publishers. The number of volumes already published, and planned volumes was unclear in May 2017 when I wrote this entry. Further information i…

1991 CE

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1991 CE

#7333

Foundations of the neuron doctrine.

1991 CE

#7514

Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.

1991 CE

#9154

From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.

1991 CE

#9096

Galen on the therapeutic method. Books I and II. Translated with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.

First translation into a modern language of Books ! and II of De methodo medendi. Very extensive introduction, commentary and bibliography.

1991 CE

#6786.35

Heirs of Hippocrates. The development of medicine in a catalogue of historic books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, The University of Iowa

Describes with detailed historical notes over 2300 books in the John Martin Rare Book Room, chiefly donated to the library by John Martin (1904-1996). The books are arranged chronologically by date of the author&rsquo…

1991 CE

#8125

Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.

1991 CE

#8774

History of transplantation: Thirty-five recollections.

1991 CE

#13177

Homeopathy in the United States: A bibliography of homeopathic medical imprints, 1825-1925.

1991 CE

#7718

Human cross-sectional anatomy: Atlas of body sections and CT images.

1991 CE

#10163

Index biographique des membres, des associés et des correspondants de l’Académie de médecine: 1820-1990. 4th edition.