2000–2009

2008 CE

#11624

Liber bestiarum. MS Bodley 764. Commentary by Christopher de Hamel and translation by Richard Barber. 2 vols.

Full color facsimile of the illuminated manuscript with translation and commentary in an accompanying volume. The two volumes boxed. The translation was originally published by the Folio Society in 1992, and the Boyde…

2008 CE

#9852

Literature and medicine, future tense: Making it graphic.

A relatively early discussion of the principles of graphic medicine. Available from obermann.uiowa.edu at this link.

2008 CE

#12431

Madness to mental illness: A history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

2008 CE

#8641

Making room in the clinic: Nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care.

2008 CE

#10550

Making visible embryos.

http://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/index.html "IMAGES OF HUMAN EMBRYOS Images of human embryos are everywhere. We see them in newspapers, clinics, classrooms, laboratories, family albums and on the internet…

2008 CE

#7130

Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.

Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.

2008 CE

#8305

Mania: A short history of bipolar disorder.

2008 CE

#10187

Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.

2008 CE

#11792

Milestones in the history of aphasia: Theories and protagonists.

2008 CE

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2008 CE

#10246

Navy medicine in Vietnam: Oral histories from Dien Bein Phu to the fall of Saigon.

2008 CE

#7426

On speed: The many lives of amphetamine.

2008 CE

#12331

On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.

Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

2008 CE

#9239

Osmanli tibbi bilimler literaturu tarihi [History of the literature of medical sciences during the Ottoman period]. Edited by E. Ihsanoglu. [Îlim tarihi kaynaklari ve arastirmalari serisi 14, Osmanli bilim tarihi literatürü serisi 7]. 4 vols.

Comprehensive and detailed catalogue of Turkish medical writings produced during the Ottoman period from the 14th to early 20th centuries. "The main body of the book lists the medical works in chronological order unde…

2008 CE

#7266

Pantheon der Dermatologie. Herausragende historische Persönlichkeiten.

Probably the largest and most comprehensive history of a medical specialty published in the 21st century. Expanded and revised English translation: Pantheon of Dermatology: outstanding historical figures by Löser…

2008 CE

#9455

Paolo Zacchia: alle origini della medicina legale, 1584-1659. Edited by Alessandro Pastore and Giovanni Rossi.

2008 CE

#8771

Pioneers of cardiac surgery.

Oral histories in narrative form without interposed questions of more than three dozen first and second generation cardiac surgeons.

2008 CE

#10974

Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.

"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…

2008 CE

#9653

Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.

2008 CE

#12214

Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.

2008 CE

#7943

The administration of sickness: Medicine and ethics in nineteenth century Algeria.

2008 CE

#13390

The age of anxiety: A history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers.

2008 CE

#13653

The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.

http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…

2008 CE

#7623

The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery.

2008 CE

#10547

The casebooks project: A digital edition of Simon Forman's & Richard Napier's medical records 1596-1634. Lauren Kassell, Project Director.

http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ "The Casebooks Project offers a tool for searching and reading the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier. The project is ongoing: 48,500 cases ar…

2008 CE

#7569

The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.

2008 CE

#10289

The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.

2008 CE

#7026

The history of natural history: An annotated bibliography. Second edition

First published, New York: Garland, 1994.

2008 CE

#13166

The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.

An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.

2008 CE

#10224

The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.

" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…

2008 CE

#7360

The mechanical mind in history. Edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler.

2008 CE

#9880

The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe. Edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau.

"This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences o…

2008 CE

#9916

The Sloane Printed Books catalogue.

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/ "The Sloane Printed Books catalogue lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Bibliographical records are enhanced with Sloane's own numbers or other identifying ma…

2008 CE

#9967

The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.

2008 CE

#7929

This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

2008 CE

#9231

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A series of cases, 2003-2007. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz.

Exceptionally well illustrated with color photographs.

2008 CE

#7298

Worlds before Adam: The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform.

2008 CE–2011 CE

#9537

Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.

Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.

2009 CE

#9225

A history of dentistry in the U.S. Army to World War II.

The development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the …

2009 CE

#9830

A history of total health.

https://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/ "A History of Total Health invites you to join in a discussion of today’s health care as we draw links to relevant events in the history of Kaiser Permanente and the industri…

2009 CE

#10957

An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.

A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.

2009 CE

#9809

An Old French herbal (Ms Princeton U.L. Garrett 131). Edited by Tony Hunt.

First edition of the earliest Old French herbal in verse— "a surprisingly comprehensive work (3188 octosyllables), based on an eleventh-century Latin treatise 'De viribus herbarum' attributed to a certain 'Macer…

2009 CE

#14083

Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids.

The authors provide evidence that Ardipithecus may be the beginning of the evolutionary pathway that eventually led to hominids. This pathway was distinct from the evolutionary pathway that led to extant African apes.…

2009 CE

#13662

Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.

2009 CE

#9120

Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne. With an essay by Oliver Sacks.

2009 CE

#12012

Bacterien in Krieg und Frieden: Eine Geschichte der medizinischen Bakteriologie in Deutschland 1890-1933.

2009 CE

#9758

Bathing in the Roman world.

2009 CE

#9783

Before Prozac: The troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry.

2009 CE

#9956

Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine.

http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife 'Brought to Life', is a website provided by the Science Museum, London. It offers access to images of thousands of fascinating objects from the Museum’s gr…

2009 CE

#9697

Burke & Hare.

This account of the resurrection men, Burke and Hare, is the first comic book version of a history of medicine story of which I am aware.