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1990–1999

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1991 CE

#8895

Le médecin et la médecine dans le théatre comique français du XVIIe siecle. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).

1991 CE

#8959

Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.

1991 CE

#12202

Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.

Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue…

1991 CE

#12938

Mapping the brain and its functions: Integrating enabling technologies into neuroscience research. Edited by Constance M. Pechura and Joseph B. Martin. Committee on a National Neural Circuitry Database....

The digital edition is available from nap.edu at this link.

1991 CE

#10202

Max Brödel, The man who put art into medicine

In the late 1890s, Brödel was brought to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. Besides creating a prolific amount of w…

1991 CE

#9940

Mechanisms and functions of cell death.

Horvitz and colleagues identified several key components in the molecular pathway of programmed cell death, including: EGL-1, a protein which activates apoptosis by inhibiting CED-9.

1991 CE

#8298

Mediaeval prognosis and astrology: A working edition of the [anonymous] Aggregationes de crisi et creticis diebus, with introduction and English summary by Cornelius O'Boyle

This pre-Galenic astrological text by an unknown author from the later part of the 13th century concerns astrological prognostication. It was based upon Book III of Galen's De diebus criticis, but provided a "handy sh…

1991 CE

#8022

Medical support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1965-1970.

Available as a PDF from www.history.army.mil at this link.

1991 CE

#8650

Milestones in leukemia research and therapy.

Freireich was part of the team that first introduced combined-drug cancer chemotherapy in 1965.

1991 CE

#11791

Neurolinguistics: Historical and theoretical perspectives. Translated by Terence MacNamee.

1991 CE

#10984

Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.

1991 CE

#10036

Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history.

1991 CE

#7516

Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations.

A collection of essays by various scholars. Editors also included M.E. van Opstall and F. Vos.

1991 CE

#8412

Romantic medicine and John Keats.

1991 CE

#8627

Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.

1991 CE

#13445

Sir Kenelm Digby, F.R.S.: An annotated bibliography

Based on the collection of the late K. Garth Huston, Sr., this is the first complete annotated bibliographical study of the writings of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), one of the most celebrated figures in 17th-century …

1991 CE

#10359

Strangers at the bedside: A history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making.

The first history of bioethics.

1991 CE

#8138

Telepresence: Dextrous procedures in a virtual operating field.

The first teleoperated surgery. Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the first prototype of a telesurgery robot was developed at Stanford Research International (SRI) (Menlo Park, CA) and called the Green Telepresence…

1991 CE

#10303

The computer-based patient record: An essential technology for health care. Committee on Improving the Patient Record, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine. Edited by Richard S. Dick and Elaine B. Steen

1991 CE

#12795

The Crimean doctors: A history of British Medical Services in the Crimean War. 2 vols.

1991 CE

#8990

The dawn of Darwinian medicine.

"While evolution by natural selection has long been a foundation for biomedical science, it has recently gained new power to explain many aspects of disease. This progress results largely from the disciplined applicat…

1991 CE

#12110

The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.

1991 CE

#10409

The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.

1991 CE

#6786.36

The Haskell F. Norman library of science and medicine. 2 vols.

Fully annotated descriptions, mostly with complete collations, paginations, and plate counts, of 2600 classics covering the spectrum of the sciences, emphasizing medicine, from circa 1470 to 1950, in the library of Ha…

1991 CE

#12363

The origins of thoracic anesthesia.

1991 CE

#9311

The picture of health: Images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand collection. Commentaries by William H. Helfand. Essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards.

1991 CE

#11712

Thomas Sydenham's observationes medicae (London, 1676) and his Medical observations (Manuscript 572 of the Royal College of Physicians of London), with new transcripts of related Locke MSS in the Bodleian Library. Edited by G. G. Meynell.

Limited to 200 copies.

1991 CE

#13556

Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case.

1991 CE

#11221

Women under the knife: A history of surgery.

"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…

1991 CE–2007 CE

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1992 CE

#7354

Brain maps: Structure of the rat brain.

The first computer graphics atlas of the brain of any species, with the illustration files also available separately (1993). The work included a complete and systematic, hierarchically organized set of annotated nomen…

1992 CE

#8773

A documentary history of biochemistry, 1770-1940. By Mikuláš Teich with Dorothy M. Needham.

1992 CE

#7372

A history of Antarctic science.

1992 CE

#10671

A history of gastric secretion and digestion: Experimental studies to 1975.

1992 CE

#11532

A history of medicine.

Third edition with Oliver J. Kim, Baton Rouge, FL: CRC Press, 2018.

1992 CE

#13062

A pictorial history of blood practices and transfusion.

1992 CE

#9139

Anothomia di Mondino de' Liuzzi da Bologna, XIV secolo. Edited by Piero P.Giorgi, Gian Franco Pasini, & Albertina Cavazza.

1992 CE

#10128

Battlefield medicine: A history of the military ambulance from the Napoleonic wars through World War I.

1992 CE

#7594

Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.

1992 CE

#8083

Beyond Flexner: Medical education in the twentieth century. Edited by Barbara Barzansky and Norman Gevitz.

1992 CE

#11931

Characterization of a novel Rochalimaea species, R. henselae sp. nov., isolated from blood of a febrile, human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Regnery, Anderson, Clarridge....The authors paid homage to the innovative work of medical technologist Diane Hensel by naming the species after her. It was initially gr…

1992 CE

#6993

Chiropractic: History and evolution of a new profession.

1992 CE

#12329

Clio: The arteries.The development of ideas in arterial surgery.

Reprints several dozen classic papers with commentary.

1992 CE

#8750

Conan Doyle's tales of medical humanism and values: Round the red lamp; being facts and fancies of medical life, with other medical short stories. Edited by Alvin Rodin and Jack Key.

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1992 CE

#11054

Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.

1992 CE

#8447

Das ‚Lorscher Arzneibuch‘. Ein medizinisches Kompendium des 8. Jahrhunderts (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1). Text, Übersetzung und Fachglossar. (Philosophische Dissertation Würzburg 1989) (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 28).

Digital facsimile of the original manuscript with the transcription and translation by Ulrich Stoll from Staatsbibliothek Bamberg at this link.

1992 CE

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1992 CE

#8005

Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.

1992 CE

#9300

Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.