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2004 CE

#10074

Phrenology and the origins of Victorian scientific naturalism.

2004 CE

#9861

Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.

2004 CE

#8137

Primer of robotic & telerobotic surgery. Edited by Garth H. Ballantyne, Jacques Marescaux, and Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.

2004 CE

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qa…

2004 CE

#8351

Questions and answers for physicians: A medieval Arabic study manual by 'Abd al- 'Azīz al-Sulamī. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy.

"....a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imtiḥān al-alibbā' li-kāffat al-aṭibbā' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepare…

2004 CE

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2004 CE

#7958

Robotic surgery: A current perspective.

A review of the history, development and then-current applications of robotics in surgery. The paper is freely available from PubMedCentral at this link.

2004 CE

#9634

Smoke: A global history of smoking. Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Xun Zhou.

2004 CE

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…

2004 CE

#7648

Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist

2004 CE

#12836

Synthetic mammalian prions.

The authors modified Koch's Postulates within the context of prion disease. To do so the followed these steps: 1) They created recombinant mouse prion proteins in an E. coli and polymerized them. 2) They proved that t…

2004 CE

#7109

The book of skin.

2004 CE

#6955

The D.O.s: Osteopathic medicine in America. 2nd ed.

2004 CE

#14297

The detection of Monkeypox in humans in the Western Hemisphere.

The first report on detection of Mpox (Monkeypox) in humans in the Western Hemisphere, elaborating and expanding on cases reported in 2003 in Wisconsin and Milwaukee. These patients had been bitten by prairie dogs. At…

2004 CE

#7435

The genome war: How Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world.

2004 CE

#9974

The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.

2004 CE

#9875

The healing arts: Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Peter Elmer

2004 CE

#7988

The Hippocratic oath and the ethics of medicine.

2004 CE

#13536

The history of medicine in Iran. Entries extracted from the Encyclopaedia Iranica Vols. I-XII.

2004 CE

#13657

The history of ophthalmology in Japan.

2004 CE

#9996

The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.

2004 CE

#11244

The life and death of smallpox.

2004 CE

#7380

The living universe: NASA and the development of astrobiology.

2004 CE

#10553

The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.

2004 CE

#12524

The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia.

"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. I…

2004 CE

#8076

The politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.

2004 CE

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

2004 CE

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.

2004 CE

#10141

Veterinary medicine: A guide to historical sources.

Includes archival materials.

2004 CE

#9762

War epidemics: An historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1850–2000.

2004 CE

#13701

When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed.

2004 CE–2015 CE

#8310

Maimonides: Medical aphorisms. A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Vol. 1: Treatises 1-5.; Vol. 2: Treatises 6-9; Vol. 3: Treatises 10-15; Vol. 4: Treatises 16-21. Vol. 5: Treatises 22-25.

2005 CE

#9965

A concise history of euthanasia: Life, death, god, and medicine.

2005 CE

#9780

A historical dictionary of psychiatry.

The first historical dictionary of psychiatry.

2005 CE

#10276

A history of accident and emergency medicine, 1948-2004.

Concerns experience in Britain.

2005 CE

#8831

A new world of animals: Early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America.

2005 CE

#12170

Agnellus de Ravenne. Lectures galéniques: le «De pulsibus ad tirones». Introduction, texte latin (adiuuante Ivan Garofalo), traduction française, notes explicatives, bibliographie et index par Nicoletta Palmieri, «Mémoires XXVIII du Centre Jean Palerne».

2005 CE

#8045

Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.

2005 CE

#9801

Animals and disease: An introduction to the history of comparative medicine.

2005 CE

#9983

Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.

2005 CE

#8143

Anyone, anything, anytime: A history of emergency medicine.

2005 CE

#13126

Arabic medical manuscripts of the Wellcome Library: A descriptive catalogue of the Haddād collection.

2005 CE

#12057

Ärzte, Ingenieure und städtische Gesundheit: medizinische Theorien in der Hygienebewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts.

2005 CE

#14257

Autonomous function of synaptotagmin 1 in triggering synchronous release independent of asynchronous release.

Südhof is credited with discovering much of the machinery mediating neurotransmitter release and presynaptic plasticity, beginning with the discovery of symaptotagmins and their role in neurostrasmitter release f…

2005 CE

#10864

Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.

Dated October 28, 2005, roughly two years after the outbreak of SARS, the natural reservoirs of this class of coronaviruses was discovered. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)

2005 CE

#8858

Biodiversity Heritage Library

BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ "The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their co…

2005 CE

#7987

Bioethics beyond the headlines: Who lives? Who dies? Who decides?

2005 CE

#9750

Bleed, blister, and purge. A history of medicine on the American frontier.

2005 CE

#7416

Bleeding blue and gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine.

2005 CE

#14029

Body counts: Medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / La quantificattion medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologigues. Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz.