2010–2019

2014 CE

#7936

Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.

An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.

2014 CE

#9703

Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832.

2014 CE

#8067

Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.

2014 CE

#9412

Shadow medicine: The placebo in conventional and alternative therapies.

2014 CE

#8509

Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.

2014 CE

#9845

Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.

"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was …

2014 CE

#13530

The black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru.

"In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin America, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the w…

2014 CE

#7289

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.

First complete sequence of a Neanderthal genome. With more than 20 co-authors. In 2022 Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct homin…

2014 CE

#10778

The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.

Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…

2014 CE

#8189

The emergence of tropical medicine in France.

2014 CE

#10214

The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.

Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.

2014 CE

#8515

The healing goddess Gula: Towards an understanding of ancient Babylonian medicine.

2014 CE

#7411

The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.

2014 CE

#14355

The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.

2014 CE

#12799

The malaria project: The U.S. government's secret mission to find a miracle cure.

"....the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. "American war planners, f…

2014 CE

#11849

The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Doubna, Charpenter. "Abstract "The advent of facile genome engineering using the bacterial RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is transforming biology. We rev…

2014 CE

#7889

The Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology. Edited by Hugh Richard Slotten.

2014 CE

#7377

The Oxford handbook of animals in classical thought and life.

2014 CE

#10629

The Pelvis: Structure, gender and society.

"This book offers a critical review of the pelvic sciences—past, present and future—from an anatomical and physiological perspective....The book starts with a “construction plan” of the pelvis …

2014 CE

#7858

The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.

2014 CE

#7503

The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).

2014 CE

#11359

Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.

2014 CE

#12839

Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.

2014 CE

#12149

Urolithiasis: A comprehensive history.

2014 CE

#11061

Uroscopy in Middle English: A guide to the texts and manuscripts. Studies in medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. 11.

2014 CE

#12043

Viruses and man: A history of interactions.

2014 CE

#7220

Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.

Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…

2014 CE

#10970

Wounded: A new history of the Western Front in World War I.

A comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front in World War I. Over 21 million military in were wounded in World War I, and nearly 10 million were killed.

2014 CE

#11501

Zoology in early modern culture: Intersections of science, theology, philology, and political and religious education. Edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith.

2015 CE

#10275

A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.

"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…

2015 CE

#8253

A historical perspective on evidence-based immunology.

Thoroughly documented and well-illustrated history, with a timeline and bibliography for each chapter.

2015 CE

#12545

A history of the Medical Council of New Zealand. Compiled by Richard Sainsbury.

Available only as a PDF from ncnz.org at this link.

2015 CE

#8583

A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.

"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…

2015 CE

#12714

Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012-2015

The authors presented a retrospective study based on demographics, race, ethnicity, signs, lab results, MRI results of 59 patients identified between June 2012 and July 2015 who presented symptoms that they characteri…

2015 CE

#8260

Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.

One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.

2015 CE

#12690

Albrecht von Haller 1708-1777.

http://www.albrecht-von-haller.ch/e/index.php When we attempted to access this website in August 2023 the site was non-operational. "The Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) was one of the central figu…

2015 CE

#12201

An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).

This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in E…

2015 CE

#10119

An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.

1077 pages.

2015 CE

#7203

Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain.

2015 CE

#8043

Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.

2015 CE

#12736

Architecture of the cerebral cortical association connectome underlying cognition.

"Significance "Connections between cerebral cortex regions are known as association connections, and neural activity in the network formed by these connections is thought to generate cognition. Network analysis of mic…

2015 CE

#10341

Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.

This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the…

2015 CE

#12408

Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.

2015 CE

#9429

Bones: Orthopaedic pathologies in Roman Imperial age.

2015 CE

#10556

Brought to Light: Stories from UCSF Archives & Special Collections.

https://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/broughttolight/

2015 CE

#7855

Caring for the heart: Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization.

The history of cardiology and cardiac surgery from the perspective of the history of the Mayo Clinic. Of special interest for details of the history of cardiac surgery in Minnesota. The book may be most remembered for…

2015 CE

#7504

Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.

2015 CE

#11068

Chirurgie dentaire et nazisme.

2015 CE

#9000

Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.

Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…

2015 CE

#9202

Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.