2010–2019

2015 CE

#11864

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes.

This paper was rejected by both Nature and Science partly for "ethical objections." When published it immediately triggered worldwide controversy among scientists and the public. This was the first application of the …

2015 CE

#10034

Die Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.

Translated into English by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub as A history of palliative care, 1500-1970: Concepts, practices, and ethical challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017).

2015 CE

#9870

Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.

2015 CE

#7781

Essays on the history of respiratory physiology.

2015 CE

#14067

Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing.

The authors sequenced the genome of 120 individuals representing all of Darwin’s finches. They found that a 240 kilobase haplotype encompassing the ALX1 gene, which encodes a transcription factor affecting crani…

2015 CE

#13531

Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.

2015 CE

#8007

For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and colonial medicine in enlightenment Guatemala.

2015 CE

#11848

Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adul…

2015 CE

#11084

Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: A descriptive catalogue. By Petros Bouras-Vallianatos with contributions by Georgi R. Parpulov.

Detailed bibliographical descriptions of the 16 manuscripts then owned by the Wellcome Library, including several from the collections of Anthony Askew (1722-1774), who acquired his in the dispersal of the library of …

2015 CE

#10919

Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …

2015 CE

#8516

Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)

2015 CE

#7854

Health care in America: A history.

2015 CE

#8056

Histoire et épistémologie de l'anatomie et de la physiologie en art dentaire: De l'antiquité à la fin du XXe siècle.

2015 CE

#10088

History of medical practice in Nigeria.

2015 CE

#8800

History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.

2015 CE

#8186

HistoryofMedicineandBiology.com

On December 27, 2016, as this database reached its 10,000th entry, though its entry number is less because of the old decimal extensions used in the prior printed editions, I decided to add it in the "electronic resou…

2015 CE

#10905

Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mous…

2015 CE

#12548

Idioms of Sámi health and healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller.

"The Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and…

2015 CE

#10969

Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.

A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

2015 CE

#9636

In search of the perfect health system.

"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…

2015 CE

#8790

Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.

2015 CE

#13186

Insects, hygiene and history.

2015 CE

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

2015 CE

#8770

Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care. Edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer.

2015 CE

#7942

Medicine and public health in Latin America: A history.

2015 CE

#12130

Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.

2015 CE

#13745

Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.

2015 CE

#6824

Neuroanatomical terminology: A lexicon of classical origins and historical foundations.

The first global, historically documented, hierarchically organized parts list of the human nervous system. "This defined vocabulary accurately and systematically describes every human nervous system structural featur…

2015 CE

#8159

NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity. Foreward by Oliver Sacks.

A very well written semi-popular historical account of autism.

2015 CE

#14260

NOBEL LECTURE: Discovery of Artemisinin - A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world.

In 1972 Tu Youyou discovered Artemisinin, the standard treatment worldwide for P. falciparum malaria as well as malaria due to other species of Plasmodium. Artemisinin is extracted from Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood…

2015 CE

#10917

Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for th…

2015 CE

#7209

Odontologia: Rare & important books in the history of dentistry. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions, with beautiful color illustrations, of some of the greatest classics in the history of dentistry in the library of the Svenska Tandläkare-Sällskapet (Swedish Dental Society).

2015 CE

#12684

On the move: A life.

2015 CE

#9968

Palliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.

This is a fine example of "you can't judge a book by its cover" since this study is outstanding from the bibliographical point of view and contains footnotes that are remarkable for their scholarly detail.

2015 CE

#7502

Patients and healers in the High Roman Empire.

2015 CE

#9315

Peter of Spain, Questiones super libro De animalibus Aristotelis. Critical edition with introduction, edited by Francisca Navarro Sánchez.

2015 CE

#10147

Pioneers in plastic surgery.

2015 CE

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

2015 CE

#9195

Radium and the secret of life.

2015 CE

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2015 CE

#9705

Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.

2015 CE

#9706

Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.

2015 CE

#10724

Sleep medicine: A comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment. Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard.

2015 CE

#8291

The Alexandrian summaries of Galen’s On critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an introduction and notes by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann.

"Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also…

2015 CE

#11196

The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.

2015 CE

#10442

The butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's lost manuscript. Foreward by Ellen V. Futter. Preface and scientific captions by David A. Grimaldi. Introduction by Kenneth Haltman.

2015 CE

#11807

The coral reef era: From discovery to decline. A history of scientific investigation from 1600 to the anthropocene epoch.

2015 CE

#12980

The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.

2015 CE

#10620

The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.

2015 CE

#10116

The dying and the doctors: The medical revolution in seventeenth-century England.

"From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general pra…