2000–2009

2007 CE

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

2007 CE

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

2007 CE

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

2007 CE

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

2007 CE

#14063

Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors.

Yamanaka (Nobel Prize 2012) and colleagues demonstrated the generation of Induced Pluripotent Stems Cells (iPS) from adult human dermal fibroblasts with the same 4 mice factors they used in GM 13287. By overexpressing…

2007 CE

#11303

Inescapable ecologies: A history of environment, disease, and knowledge.

"Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem." This book provides a "history of “ecolo…

2007 CE

#9688

Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.

2007 CE

#8556

La Scuola Medica Salernitana. Gli autori e i testi. Convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004. A cura di Danielle Jacquart e Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 01.

Includes on pp. 185-188, and 211-13, Monica H. Green, "Reconstructing the oeuvre of Trota of Salerno." Also, on pp. 15-60, Monica H. Green, “Rethinking the manuscript basis of Salvatore De Renzi’s Collecti…

2007 CE

#7296

Le cercle d'Abbeville: Paléontologie et préhistoire dans la France romantique. Edition établie par Marie-Françoise Aufrère.

In May 1940 the Boucher de Perthes Museum in Abbeville was destroyed by bombing. However, in the years before the war Leon Aufrère made copies of archives and correspondence, which became the source material fo…

2007 CE

#8342

Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.

2007 CE

#12988

Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.

2007 CE

#8896

Litterature et medécine: Approaches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Alexandre Wenger.

2007 CE

#9026

Medicina, ideología e historia en España (siglos XVI-XXI). Edited by Ricardo Campos, Luis Montiel and Rafael Huertas.

2007 CE

#10027

Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.

2007 CE

#9350

Medieval Islamic medicine.

2007 CE

#8481

Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: The uses of a sixteenth century compendium.

The compendium that King studied is Caspar Wolff's Gynaeciorum (1566, 1586-1588; Nos. 6011 and 6022). She concentrated on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from…

2007 CE

#10466

Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ Events & Talks - Library- Books, Articles, Lectures- Press- Exhibitions- Photography- Bookstore The most comprehensive online reference to these topics curated in a unique manner. In…

2007 CE

#9132

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…

2007 CE

#8696

Mutter Museum: Historic medical photographs. Edited by Laura Lindgren.

2007 CE

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2007 CE

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2007 CE

#9687

Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.

2007 CE

#11391

Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.

"A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong…

2007 CE

#8413

Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.

The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …

2007 CE

#8995

Pride of America, we're with you: The letters of Grace Anderson, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I.

2007 CE

#13219

Promise on Parnassus: The first century of the UCSF School of Nursing.

History of the School of Nursing at the University of California San Franicsco.

2007 CE

#9777

Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.

Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.

2007 CE

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

2007 CE

#9856

Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land.

2007 CE

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

2007 CE

#12330

Resuscitation greats. Edited by Peter Baskett and Thomas Baskett.

2007 CE

#11357

Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. Edited by David. A. Gerstner.

2007 CE

#11171

Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.

2007 CE

#11082

Shock and awe: The performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations. (Version 5; January 2007.)

Digital edition available from princeton.edu at this link: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/gleason/010702.pdf

2007 CE

#8101

Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.

2007 CE

#9704

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.

2007 CE

#12159

Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.

2007 CE

#9118

The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States.

2007 CE

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

2007 CE

#12965

The diploid genome sequence of an individual human.

The first genome sequence of a single human (Craig Venter), including analysis and comments on his genetic markers, and their possible medical and prognosticating implications. (Order of authorship in the original pub…

2007 CE

#8278

The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…

2007 CE

#7954

The emergence of genetic rationality: Space, time & information in American biological science, 1870-1920.

2007 CE

#11361

The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.

A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…

2007 CE

#9230

The first miracle drugs: How the sulfa drugs transformed medicine.

"In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines…

2007 CE

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007 CE

#9425

The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.

"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…

2007 CE

#13290

The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.

2007 CE

#13634

The medieval hospital and medical practice. Edited by Barbara S. Bowers.

2007 CE

#12505

The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.

2007 CE

#10815

The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.