2010–2019

2016 CE

#10925

Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016.

A first hand account of events as they occurred in Yambuku in 1976, including the causes and reasons for the spread of Ebola within the Yambuku Mission hospital, the probable index event/patient (not identified), and …

2016 CE

#12727

Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.

"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…

2016 CE

#12312

Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.

2016 CE

#12803

Ethnobotany of Mexico: Interactions of people and plants in Mesoamerica. Edited by Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas.

2016 CE

#9895

Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.

"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…

2016 CE

#7826

Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's report on alcohol, drugs, and health.

The first U.S. Surgeon General's report on substance misuse and the wide range of adverse health effects from alcohol and both legal and illegal drugs. It brought together evidence on prevention; treatment; and recove…

2016 CE

#8986

Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon.

2016 CE

#10096

Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.

2016 CE

#10667

Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.

2016 CE

#8047

Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.

2016 CE

#9610

Galen: On the constitution of the art of medicine. The art of medicine. A method of medicine to Glaucon. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston.

2016 CE

#11437

Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.

2016 CE

#8015

Highlights in the history of the Army Nurse Corps.

2016 CE

#10012

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)

Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE

2016 CE

#8539

History within: The science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules.

2016 CE

#8550

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.

2016 CE

#8338

Huang Di Ne Jing Ling Shu. The ancient classic on needle therapy. The complete Chinese text with annotated English translation.

2016 CE

#8233

Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.

2016 CE

#10922

Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetemia: A descriptive study.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Mead, Johnson. Discovery of Lyme Borreliosis or Borrelia mayonii, a new variant of B. burgdorferi. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

2016 CE

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, artic…

2016 CE

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

2016 CE

#10944

Local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus - Miami - Dade and Broward counties, Florida, June-August 2016.

First report on Zika virus infections in the U.S., tracing the area of infection to a specific square mile, creating a buffer zone around the area, targeting it for spraying and mosquito collection, intervention, mass…

2016 CE

#8739

Medical ethics: Accounts of ground-breaking cases. 8th edition

2016 CE

#10565

Medical Museums in the United States.

http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/research/links-of-interest/medical-museums-in-the-united-states/ A comprehensive, annotated listing of U.S. medical museums with links to their websites.

2016 CE

#9779

Murder and the making of English CSI.

2016 CE

#8339

Nan Jing: The classic of difficult issues. Second edition, revised and updated.

2016 CE

#11956

Nature's colony: Empire, nation and environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

2016 CE

#10048

Nature's path: A history of naturopathic healing in America.

2016 CE

#10420

Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.

"By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth ce…

2016 CE

#8997

Nurse writers of the great war.

2016 CE

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

2016 CE

#11375

Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.

The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

2016 CE

#11496

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

2016 CE

#9010

Quintus Serenus, Medizinischer Rat (Liber medicinalis). Edited and translated into German by Kai Brodersen.

2016 CE

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

2016 CE

#8847

Simulation in healthcare education: An extensive history.

The first history of this topic on the history of mannikins and the unusually wide variety of devices, including interactive software, used in the training of the different specialties in medicine and nursing.

2016 CE

#10081

Slavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage.

2016 CE

#13722

Social media use in healthcare: A systematic review of effects on patients and on their relationship with healthcare professionals.

"Since the emergence of social media in 2004, a growing percentage of patients use this technology for health related reasons. To reflect on the alleged beneficial and potentially harmful effects of social media use b…

2016 CE

#9401

Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.

A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the…

2016 CE

#10941

The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Sirohi, Rossmann, Kuhn. Using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the authors presented the molecular structure of the Zika virus at 3.8Å resolution. Digital facsi…

2016 CE

#7566

The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death.

2016 CE

#11614

The Andean wonder drug: Cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800.

2016 CE

#8977

The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014: Medicines, international standards and the state.

"The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and rema…

2016 CE

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

2016 CE

#9922

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.

http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…

2016 CE

#12452

The development of sleep medicine: A historical sketch.

Extensively bibliographical. Available from PubMedCentral at this link.

2016 CE

#9617

The gene: An intimate history.

2016 CE

#11013

The General: A history of the Montreal General Hospital.

2016 CE

#13089

The germ of an idea: Contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730.

"Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London…