2010–2019

2015 CE

#13891

The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the cold war era.

2015 CE

#8724

The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.

2015 CE

#7637

The fate of anatomical collections.

A collective work, edited by Knoeff and Zwijenberg, which includes several chapters of great interest. Relevant to the history of John Hunter's museum see Andrew Cunningham, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Ri…

2015 CE

#11368

The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.

"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural sele…

2015 CE

#9818

The graphic medicine manifesto.

"...establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and M…

2015 CE

#9829

The great paleolithic war: How science forged an understanding of America's ice age past.

A masterful synthesis of the history of the study of human origins in North America with a comprehensive bibliography.

2015 CE

#8431

The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.

2015 CE

#10800

The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.

2015 CE

#11923

The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.

2015 CE

#9716

The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.

"The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a…

2015 CE

#9476

The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.

Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

2015 CE

#12629

The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed

This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from wh…

2015 CE

#9039

The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.

The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…

2015 CE

#8290

The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes

Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…

2015 CE

#12531

The shape of spectatorship. Art, science, and early cinema in Germany.

"Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I....Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual inst…

2015 CE

#7509

The technical image: A history of styles in scientific imagery.

2015 CE

#8012

U. S. Army psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare.

2015 CE

#12441

Vaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.

2015 CE

#13024

Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.

2015 CE

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.

2015 CE

#7582

William Hunter's world: The art and science of eighteenth-century collecting.

Authoritative illustrated chapters on aspects of Hunter's collecting, including anatomy, zoology, entomology, fossils, numismatics, paintings, drawings, printed books and manuscripts. A collective work edited by Hanco…

2015 CE

#6939

Worlds of learning. The library and world chronicle of the Nuremberg physician Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). Edited by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Schedel's library, mostly preserved at the Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, is the most extensive and multifaceted surviving private library of a fifteenth-century German collector. According to Schedel's original manusc…

2015 CE

#9957

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…

2015 CE

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

2016 CE

#9812

L'Anonyme de Londres. P.: Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. Inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. Edited by Antonio Ricciardetto.

Edition of the Greek text with French translation and introduction. Apart from minor changes listed on page vii, the work reproduces the previous publication by the author in the collection Papyrologia Leodensia (Li&e…

2016 CE

#10779

1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America.

By genetic analysis of HIV, Worobey, Lemey and colleagues from the social sciences "cleared" Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian air steward, who previously had been identified by name as Patient Zero--the source of the epi…

2016 CE

#10185

A biographical history of endocrinology.

2016 CE

#7518

A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.

An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.

2016 CE

#13505

A century of parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons learned by scientists who published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014. Edited by John Janovy, Jr. and Gerald W. Esch.

2016 CE

#12234

A century of telemedicine: Curatio sine distantia et tempora.

345 pages. Available online from isfteh.org at this link.

2016 CE

#10240

A critical history of schizophrenia.

2016 CE

#8826

A history of anthropological theory. 5th edition.

2016 CE

#9238

A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples.

2016 CE

#10419

A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.

2016 CE

#7526

A Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.

The first comprehensive introduction to all 186 Linnaean dissertations, in the form of short essays (many illustrated) on each dissertation. Most of these dissertations, which were published in Latin, have remained re…

2016 CE

#9554

African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.

2016 CE

#10485

Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.

2016 CE

#9872

Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.

2016 CE

#11138

Anatomy: An encyclopedic reference to the language of anatomy and neuroanatomy. It provides the fascinating origin of terms and biographies of anatomists/physicians who originated them.

2016 CE

#9599

Ancient botany.

2016 CE

#11049

Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.

2016 CE

#10538

Ärztliches Leben und Denken im arabischen Mittelalter. Von Johann Christoph Bürgel. Bearbeitet von Fabian Käs.

"...Investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse …

2016 CE

#10968

Bellevue: Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital.

2016 CE

#7964

Bibliography of natural history travel narratives.

The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works.

2016 CE

#9454

Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.

2016 CE

#8859

Bloody brilliant! A history of blood groups and blood groupers.

2016 CE

#10423

Charles Darwin’s life with birds: His complete ornithology.

2016 CE

#9479

Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.

2016 CE

#9594

Data Refuge.

https://www.datarefuge.org/ "Data Refuge is a public and collaborative project designed to address concerns about federal climate and environmental data that is in danger of being lost[1]. In particular, the initiativ…

2016 CE

#9795

Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.

Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts…