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2017 CE

#10454

To heal humankind: The right to health in history,

2017 CE

#11435

Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.

2017 CE

#14347

Vertigo: Five physician scientists and the quest for a cure.

Concerns the work of Prosper Ménière, Josef Breuer, Robert Bárány, Charles Hallpike, and Harold Schuknecht.

2017 CE

#9849

Visualizing disease: The art and history of pathological illustrations.

2017 CE

#14201

Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination.

Prior to their development of the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, Karikó and Weissman (Nobel Prize 2023) and colleagues used a novel mRNA vaccine, with base modifications created in their laboratory, to generate a p…

2018 CE

#12668

‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.

2018 CE

#10188

A platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health: Strategic plan 2017-2027. Report of the NLM Board of Regents.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/plan/lrp17/NLM_StrategicReport2017_2027.html "The strategic plan focuses on three essential, interdependent goals that will help guide the Library’s priorities over the next 10 years…

2018 CE

#12103

Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.

Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …

2018 CE

#13105

Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: Art, anatomy and printing in the Italian renaissance. Edited by R. F. Canalis and M. Ciavolella.

2018 CE

#10262

Animals and the shaping of modern medicine: One health and its histories.

A pioneering effort to draw the connections between the development of veterinary medicine and the development of medicine in general. With an extensive annotated bibliography.

2018 CE

#10186

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

2018 CE

#11474

Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.

2018 CE

#10425

Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

2018 CE

#10698

Between hope and fear: A history of vaccines and human immunity.

Both a history of vaccines and immunology and of the anti-vaccination movement.

2018 CE

#11664

Caring for equality: A history of African American health and healthcare.

2018 CE

#11051

Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.

2018 CE

#10622

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

2018 CE

#14146

Cloning of Macaque monkeys by somatic cell nuclear transfer.

The authors at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai reported the first cloning of a non-human primate. Full text available from cell.com at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Liu, Cai..…

2018 CE

#9959

CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…

2018 CE

#10540

Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud.

"... discusses interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the Persian translation movement of Ayurvedic sources that took place from the fourte…

2018 CE

#10121

Digital health: Scaling healthcare to the world. Edited by Homero Rivas and Katarzyna Wac.

Probably the first book published on "digital health." "This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It p…

2018 CE

#12183

Digital medicine, on its way to being just plain medicine.

"There are already nearly 30,000 peer-reviewed English-language scientific journals, producing an estimated 2.5 million articles a year.1 So why another, and why one focused specifically on digital medicine? "To answe…

2018 CE

#14151

Dynamic basis for dG•dT misincorporation via tautomerization and ionization.

In 1953 Watson and Crick proposed that rarely formed isomers of DNA bases cause spontaneous mutations to occur during the copying of DNA. Such mutations would be easily accommodated because tautomeric mispairs do not …

2018 CE

#12636

Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.

Both an historical and a scientific study.

2018 CE

#13584

Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.

2018 CE

#12565

Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.

Open source from link.springer.com at this link.

2018 CE

#9613

GALEN: Hygiene. Books 1-4, Books 5-6. Thrasybulus on exercise with a small ball. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston. 2 vols.

2018 CE

#11831

Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.

2018 CE

#12841

Health education films in the twentieth century. Edited by Christian Bonah, David Cantor, Anja Laukötter.

2018 CE

#13579

Images in Mississippi medicine: A photographic history of medicine in Mississippi

2018 CE

#10533

Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .

Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.

2018 CE

#10696

In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.

Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.

2018 CE

#10705

It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.

"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same…

2018 CE

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.

2018 CE

#12390

Landmark papers in otolaryngology. Edited by John S. Phillips and Sally Erskine.

2018 CE

#9604

Lelamour herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r-57r): An annotated critical edition by David Moreno Olalla.

First critical edition of the sole extant copy of the Middle English herbal written in 1373 by John Lelamour, a Herefordian schoolmaster, who is otherwise unknown.

2018 CE

#12566

Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.

The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link.

2018 CE

#11927

Life is short, art long: The art of healing in Byzantium. New perspectives. Edited by Brigitte Ptarakis and Gülru Tanman.

2018 CE

#13566

Luminous creatures: The history and science of light production in living organisms.

2018 CE

#13129

Maimonides On coitus. A new parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 11.)

"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large numbe…

2018 CE

#9711

Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…

2018 CE

#12560

Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.

Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story…

2018 CE

#12563

Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.

"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…

2018 CE

#12532

Medieval bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages.

2018 CE

#13673

Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power. Edited by John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martinez.

"Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea,…

2018 CE

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.

2018 CE

#12538

Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.

"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …

2018 CE

#12567

Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.

A report from the British Defence Medical Services.

2018 CE

#11480

Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signaling interference.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Piewngam, Zheng, Nguygen....The authors discovered a mechanism by which probiotics help maintain a healthy microbiome. They showed that Bacillus subtilis can produce a …

2018 CE

#10776

Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.