2010–2019
887 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2018 CE
#12681
Poison, medicine, and disease in late medieval and early modern Europe.
"...Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to l…
2018 CE
#10756
PTSD: A short history.
2018 CE
#10935
Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.
2018 CE
#11382
Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.
"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…
2018 CE
#12425
Science and medicine in Imperial Russia. Second edition.
Concerns the development of medicine, chemistry and biology in Russia before the revolution.
2018 CE
#14352
Structure and distribution of an unrecognized interstitium in human tissues.
The authors described "the anatomy and histology of a previously unrecognized, though widespread, macroscopic, fluid-filled space within and between tissues, a novel expansion and specification of the concept of the h…
2018 CE
#14032
Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.
2018 CE
#12738
Subsystem organization of axonal connections within and between right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei (endbrain).
"Significance "The right and left cerebral hemispheres (together forming the endbrain) support cognition and affect, and, structurally, each hemisphere consists of a cortical sheet and set of deep nuclei (often called…
2018 CE
#10476
Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.
2018 CE
#12673
Syrische Astrologie und das Syrische Medizinbuch.
2018 CE
#13049
Telemedicine and health technologies: A guide for mental health professionals.
"...Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a practical, comprehensive, and evidence-based guide to patient-centered clinical care delivered in whole or in part by technologi…
2018 CE
#11461
Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Stewart, Ajami, O'Brien....This study confirmed that "breastfeeding was associated with higher levels of Bididofacterium species" (a very desirable organism), and that …
2018 CE
#12625
The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
2018 CE
#11436
The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
2018 CE
#12614
The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.
2018 CE
#10946
The emergence of Zika virus and its new clinical syndromes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pierson, Diamond. Analyzes, and documents with 147 references, the variety of new clinical syndromes, including fetal / in utero effects, caused by the Zika virus. Also…
2018 CE
#10543
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A worldwide descriptive census, ownership, and annotations of the 1543 and 1555 editions.
Detailed bibliographical information, ownership records, and worldwide census, including description of the handwritten annotations in the surviving copies of the first two editions of Vesalius's De humani corporis fa…
2018 CE
#10626
The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,
Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…
2018 CE
#14099
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Paleogenomic study of a single bone fragment from a female hominin found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains of Russia provided "direct evidence for genetic mixture between Neanderthals and Denisovans on at le…
2018 CE
#11610
The history of wine as a medicine: From its beginnings in China to the present day.
2018 CE
#11125
The madness of fear: A history of catatonia.
2018 CE
#10525
The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.
"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…
2018 CE
#11621
The mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of medicine.
Fascinating stories well told, and frequently with a great sense of humor!
2018 CE
#11938
The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.
Showcases the work of forty-six scholars from around the world, and comprises an Introduction followed by forty-nine chapters, concluded with a general index. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography featuring multi…
2018 CE
#10544
The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery. Edited by Thomas Schlich.
24 chapters on the history of a wide variety of aspects of general surgery, and of the history of various surgical specialties, by 24 authorities. The work is divided into three parts: 1. Periods and Topics, 2. Links,…
2018 CE
#9792
The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
2018 CE
#10755
To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.
2018 CE
#10594
Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It also summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. "A …
2018 CE
#12878
W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.
2018 CE
#10145
Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past.
2018 CE
#11113
William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.
This is probably the most beautiful book published on the wide range of William Hunter's collecting that forms the Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Collection in Glasgow University Library.
2018 CE
#12362
Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.
"The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).
2019 CE
#11462
A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Almeida, Mitchell, Boland.... Abstract: "The composition of the human gut microbiota is linked to health and disease, but knowledge of individual microbial species is n…
2019 CE
#10916
A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…
2019 CE
#11374
A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal …
2019 CE
#11056
A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.
A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…
2019 CE
#11367
Allied medicine in the Great War: The medical front and the people who fought.
2019 CE
#11529
An equal burden: The men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War.
2019 CE
#13293
Anti/Vax: Reframing the vaccination controversy.
2019 CE
#11400
Artificial intelligence in medicine: Weighing the accomplishments, hype and promise.
2019 CE
#12715
Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.
The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion tha…
2019 CE
#11080
Brill's companion to the reception of Galen. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
This collective work shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticized across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe …
2019 CE
#12407
Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.
"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…
2019 CE
#11453
Charcot's studies on hysteria: Five case histories, 1870-1893.
2019 CE
#14040
Deer Leibarzt des Schah Jacob E. Polak 1818-1891. Eine west-östliche Lebensgeschichte.
2019 CE
#11611
Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world.
2019 CE
#12169
Epidemics and society from the Black Death to the present.
2019 CE
#13797
Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.
2019 CE
#12098
Evolution, kidney development, and chronic kidney disease.
Abstract: "There is a global epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) characterized by a progressive loss of nephrons, ascribed in large part to a rising incidence of hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabe…
2019 CE
#12562
Explorations in Baltic medical history, 1850-2015. Edited by Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand.
"This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a disci…