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2000–2009

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2001 CE

#14291

Click chemistry: Diverse chemical function from a few good reactions.

In 2022 Barry Sharpless shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carolyn Bertozzi and Morten Meldal for "the discovery of click chemistry." "Barry Sharpless coined the concept of click chemistry, where molecular build…

2001 CE

#10534

Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2001 CE

#9062

CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM / CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM: Online Editions.

http://cmg.bbaw.de/epubl/online/editionen.html "Within the framework of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”, the CMG is eager to make the results of the proj…

2001 CE

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

2001 CE

#13979

Deutsche Medizin im Dritten Reich: Karrieren vor und nach 1945.

2001 CE

#13389

Devices and desires: A history of contraceptives in America.

2001 CE

#10623

Don't kill your baby: Public health and the decline of breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

2001 CE

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2001 CE

#8170

ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online.

http://echo.gmu.edu/ "ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a portal to over 5,000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. This guide helps researchers find the exact informat…

2001 CE

#14111

Efficacy and safety of a specific inhibitor of the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase in chronic myeloid leukemia.

The authors showed that the experimental drug (STI571) Imatinib, sold under the brand names Gleevec and Glivec, 1) was well tolerated and had very significant antileukemic activity in patients with chronic myeloid leu…

2001 CE

#12071

Encylopedia of death and dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman.

2001 CE

#7654

Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

2001 CE

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

2001 CE

#6891

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

Initial draft sequence of the human genome from the publically financed project, involving the coordinated efforts of 20 laboratories and hundreds of people around the world. The full text is available from Nature at …

2001 CE

#9451

Jamu: The ancient Indonesian art of herbal healing.

2001 CE

#12890

Linus Pauling: Selected scientific papers. Vol. 1: Physical sciences. Vol. 2: Biomolecular sciences. Edited by Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb, Peter Jeffress Pauling, Alexander Kamb, Linus Pauling, Jr.

2001 CE

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

2001 CE

#7191

Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.

2001 CE

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2001 CE

#8748

Mechanisms of synaptic transmission: Bridging the gaps (1890-1990).

"Synaptic transmission plays a central role in the nervous system as the mechanism that allows for chemical and electrical communication between cells and thus connects discrete elements into the functioning whole. Th…

2001 CE

#8124

Medical ethics in the ancient world.

2001 CE

#11451

Medical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine. Edited by E. H. Shortliffe, L. E. Perreault, G. Wiederhold, L. M. Fagan.

A fourth expanded edition of this textbook, edited by Shortliffe and James J. Cimino, was published as Biomedical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (New York: Springer, 2014).

2001 CE

#7908

MEDICINA & STORIA. 1-

Recent issues may be viewed at http://www.fupress.net/index.php/mes/issue/current.

2001 CE

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2001 CE

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001 CE

#12092

Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.

2001 CE

#7279

New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.

In 1998 and 1999, working in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya, Meave Leakey and her team found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old hominin with a mixture of features unseen in other e…

2001 CE

#9932

No place like home: A history of nursing and home care in the United States.

2001 CE

#8195

OCLC WorldCat.

"WordCat is world's largest network of library content and services....WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks t…

2001 CE

#13576

One hundred important ophthalmology books of the 20th century.

http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/dept/20thcenturybooks/100Books.htm#TOC "One hundred 20th century ophthalmic books arranged chronologically within each subspecialty area. The subspecialty areas themselves are arranged ro…

2001 CE

#10428

Out of the dead house: Nineteenth‐century women physicians and the writing of medicine.

2001 CE

#11423

Pharmacopoeias and related literature in Britain and America, 1618–1847.

"Collected in this volume are the author’s historical and bibliographical studies of what may be described as the British and American literature of pharmacotherapeutics. The practitioner of medicine in the peri…

2001 CE

#9813

Physiognomy and the meaning of expression in nineteenth-century culture.

"...explores the concepts of physiognomy and eugenics and raises questions about what are "legitimate" sciences.[2] She describes how "the appeal of physiognomy lay not so much in any of its scientific pretension but …

2001 CE

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…

2001 CE

#13710

Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.

2001 CE

#10707

Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.

2001 CE

#10256

Spacefaring: The human dimension.

2001 CE

#7635

Stuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.

2001 CE

#13288

Surgeons at war: Medical arrangements for the treatment of the sick and wounded in the British army during the late 18th and 19th centuries.

2001 CE

#6903

Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy

The most comprehensive biography of Morton, and the most comprehensive account of the ether controversy between Morton and Charles Thomas Jackson.

2001 CE

#9649

The breast cancer wars: Hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America.

2001 CE

#12361

The eighteenth-century origins of angina pectoris: Predisposing causes, recognition and aftermath.

2001 CE

#14076

The heritage of homoeopathic literature: An abbreviated bibliography and commentary.

"... an abbreviated bibliography of 915 of the best and the worst of homeopathic literature from 1810 to 2000.... the book presents the work by category (Materia Medica, Repertory, Domestic Manuals, etc.) and in chron…

2001 CE

#10934

The history of the Royal Society of Medicine.

2001 CE

#9927

The Jungians: A comparative and historical perspective.

The first book on the history of the profession of analytical psychology from its origins in 1913. Because Kirsch was personally involved in many aspects of Jungian history, he was well equipped to write the history o…

2001 CE

#12953

The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.

The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…

2001 CE

#9337

The life of a virus: Tobacco mosaic virus as an experimental model, 1930-1965.

Tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus isolated and crystallized.

2001 CE

#12975

The medical library of Dr. Meyer Friedman.

Friedman's library, containing copies of many great medical classics, was sold at auction by Sotheby's in New York, on November 16, 2001.

2001 CE

#7894

The Nuremberg medical trial, 1946/47: Transcripts, material of the prosecution and defense, related documents. On behalf of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Edited by Klaus Dörner, Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne in cooperation with Karl Heinz Roth and Paul Weindling. Guide to the microfiche-edition. Compiled by Johannes Eltzschig and Michael Walter. With an introduction to the Trial's history by Angelika Ebbinghaus and short biographies of the participants.

2001 CE

#9408

The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.

"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …