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2005 CE

#7004

Body worlds. The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.

In 1977 Gunther von Hagens invented plastination, a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. In the process water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be …

2005 CE

#11335

Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…

2005 CE

#7150

Chinese medicine in early communist China, 1945-63.

Describes the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, sidelined medical practice of the early 20th century to an essential and high profile part of the national health care system under the Chinese Communi…

2005 CE

#13266

Classic papers in modern diagnostic radiology. Edited by Adrian M. K. Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee, and Uwe Busch.

2005 CE

#12720

Cloning of a human parvovirus by molecular screening of respiratory tract samples.

Discovery of the first Human Bocavirus (HBoV1), a new virus species associated with lower respiratory infection almost always in children. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Allander, Tammi, Eriksson). …

2005 CE

#8510

Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian medicine: Ancient sources, translations, and modern medical analyses.

2005 CE

#9768

Drug discovery: A history.

2005 CE

#9453

Drugs and theater in early modern England.

2005 CE

#10232

Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.

2005 CE

#12113

Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Wolfe, Heniene, Carr ...Birx.... "As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including primates, even-toed ungulate…

2005 CE

#11811

Epidemics and pandemics: Their impact on human history.

2005 CE

#13769

Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health. Editor-in-chief: Olle Selinus.

"... emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience comm…

2005 CE

#10166

Exilio y depuración política: En la Facultad de Medicina de San Carlos.

Focuses on the period of the Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1939.

2005 CE

#9935

Fathoming the ocean: The discovery and exploration of the deep sea.

2005 CE

#10415

Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.

2005 CE

#8201

From Gutenberg to the internet: A sourcebook on the history of information technology. Edited by Jeremy M. Norman.

Includes some documentation on the early applications of computing to biology and medicine.

2005 CE

#8295

From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in Late Antiquity.

2005 CE

#10927

Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Leroy, Kumulungui, Pourrut. The authors showed that fruit bats, while asymptomatic, act as reservoirs and potential carriers of Ebola virus in Africa. These bats are eaten by…

2005 CE

#11481

Glycan foraging in vivo by an intestine adapted bacterial symbiont.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Sonnenberg, Xu, Leip....The authors showed that complex plant carbohydrates (glycans), which the human body cannot digest, provide food for benign bacteria in the micro…

2005 CE

#8254

Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qaṭan: Original Hebrew text, medieval Latin translation, modern English translation by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, and Tzvi Langermann.

2005 CE

#8301

Hippocrates On ancient medicine, translated with an introduction and commentary by Mark J. Schiefsky.

2005 CE

#9945

Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.

Translated into English by Ann M. Hentschel as Brainwaves: A cultural history of electroencephalography. Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018.

2005 CE

#12559

Historia de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.

2005 CE

#9431

Historical atlas of immunology.

2005 CE

#11842

Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mojica, Díez-Villaseñor, Jesus García-Martínez. In this paper Mojica and colleagues showed the the CRISPR system is a bacterial immune syste…

2005 CE

#10535

Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.

2005 CE

#10161

Les animaux malades en Europe occidentale, vi-xix siècle. Ed. M. Mousnier.

2005 CE

#12180

Les classes zoologiques en Grèce ancienne d'Homère à Élien (VIIIe av.-IIIe ap. J.-C.)

2005 CE

#11193

Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…

2005 CE

#10548

Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician

2005 CE

#8454

Medicine in the crusades: Warfare, wounds and the medieval surgeon.

The first book published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. "Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers D. Mitchell considers medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, tortur…

2005 CE

#7146

Medieval Chinese medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen.

2005 CE

#8488

Medieval science, technology, and medicine: An encyclopedia. Edited by Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey, and Faith Wallis.

2005 CE

#14259

Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex.

May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser and colleagues discovered grid cells, specialized types of neurons that respond to specific locations in space. They are main components of the brain's GPS. Order of authorship in the …

2005 CE

#11396

Molecular identification of bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Fredricks, Fiedler, Marrazzo. Using molecular methods, the authors confirmed that absence or greatly reduced number of Lactobacilli was associated with vaginosis. They …

2005 CE

#8729

Multiple sclerosis: The history of a disease.

2005 CE

#10080

Must we all die? Alaska's enduring struggle with tuberculosis.

2005 CE

#9119

Nature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display.

2005 CE

#9478

Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the west to 1848.

2005 CE

#9363

Office of NIH History: National Institutes of Health.

https://history.nih.gov/ "The Office of NIH History at the National Institutes of Health exists to advance historical understanding of biomedical research within the NIH and the world. Through preserving records of si…

2005 CE

#10931

Our shared legacy: Nursing education at Johns Hopkins, 1889–2006. Edited by Mame Warren in association with the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

2005 CE

#8566

Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica. Translated by Lily Y. Beck. (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, vol. 38).

A new English translation, directly from the Greek text edited by Wellmann, and thoroughly indexed.

2005 CE

#10515

Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.

2005 CE

#10593

Profiles in cardiac pacing and electrophysiology.

2005 CE

#8787

Religion and healing in America. Edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered.

2005 CE

#8512

Renal and rectal diseases texts. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Book 7).

Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature provided copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. This volume e…

2005 CE

#8839

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto others.

2005 CE

#9548

Significant events in the history of operative dentistry.

Digital facsimile from Fauchard.org at this link.

2005 CE

#13622

Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.

Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This techno…

2005 CE

#8699

Testing the limits: Aviation medicine and the origins of manned space flight.