2010–2019

2011 CE

#10236

Animal inside out: A Body Worlds production.

Applying the technique and theatricality of plastination to the anatomy of animals including animals as large as elephants.

2011 CE

#8017

Attack on the Pentagon: The medical response to 9/11.

2011 CE

#10126

Aves: A survey of the literature of neotropical ornithology.

Written and beautifully designed and produced by Tom Taylor in an edition limited to 500 copies. Includes many fine color plates.

2011 CE

#13906

Barbed wire disease: British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19.

"By the time of the Armistice in 1918, around 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated suffering a…

2011 CE

#9708

Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.

2011 CE

#9606

Benvenutus Grassus’ On the well-proven art of the eye: Practica oculorum & De probatissima arte oculorum. Synoptic edition and philological Studies. Edited by Antonio Miranda-García and Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo.

"This book contains the extant tradition of Benvenutus Grassus’ Treatise on the eye and six philological related studies. The tradition in Latin (Metz, Bibliothèques- Médiatèques, MS 176) is…

2011 CE

#9840

Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé, Paris: Université Paris Descartes. Guy Cobolet, Curator General.

http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/index.php One of the most comprehensive portals and digital libraries for the history of medicine and dentistry. History of health Digital libraries Medic @ Digital Libra…

2011 CE

#10328

Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.

2011 CE

#9625

Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.

2011 CE

#10549

Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always read…

2011 CE

#7667

Chevalier John Taylor, England's early oculist: Pretender or pioneer?

The unusually colorful career of the pioneer oculist, notorious for his flamboyant behavior, self-promotion, proflific writings, and for blinding both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. The authors disc…

2011 CE

#8615

Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.

2011 CE

#14112

Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells in chronic lymphoid leukemia.

Carl H. June and colleagues proved that the ‘concept’ of CAR T-cell therapy developed by them, was a very promising and viable alternative in specific recalcitrant cancers. They showed that their novel in-…

2011 CE

#14135

Conformational changes in the G protein Gs induced by the β2 adrenergic receptor.

Using X ray crystallographic techniques and electron microscopy, Kobilka (Nobel Prize 2012) and colleagues described the very complex nucleotide exchange and interactions at the molecular level of the alpha subunit of…

2011 CE

#10702

Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.

2011 CE

#13571

Correction of the 508del-CFTR protein processing defect in vitro by the investigational drug VX-809.

Negulescu and colleagues published a "proof of concept" experiment showing that the novel molecule called VX-809 could correct in vitro the very common and critical 508del-CFTR mutation identified by Collins. (See GM …

2011 CE

#14134

Crystal structure of the β2 adrenergic receptor–Gs protein complex.

Kobilka and colleagues published the crystal structure of a beta-2 receptor forming a complex with the G protein coupled receptor. This was the first time that a complete complex of an active receptor and it's Gs prot…

2011 CE

#10008

Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950.

http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php? "Welcome to the Database of Illustrators! Courtesy of the Section for History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart ! Our online database, fully function…

2011 CE

#9841

Digital Bodeian. Judith Siefring, Head of Digital Research.

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ "The Bodleian Libraries’ collections are extraordinary and significant—both from a scholarly point of view and as material that has an historic and aesthetic richness tha…

2011 CE

#8686

Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.

Well-written and beautifully illustrated in color. Unfortunately the bibliography contains many errors.

2011 CE

#10493

Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.

"Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleonto…

2011 CE

#14152

Efficacy of intravitreal Bevacizumab for state 3+ retinopathy of prematurity.

The authors, representatives of the "BEAT-ROP Cooperative Group," showed that intravitreal bevacizumab monoclonal antibody therapy in infants with stage 3+ retinopathy of prematurity showed a significant benefit for z…

2011 CE

#10904

Emergence of a new pathogenic Ehrlichia species, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Sloan, Johnson. Discovery of a new species of Ehrlichia, initially denoted as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009," that was not related to E. chaffeensiis or E. ewin…

2011 CE

#7823

Famous personalities honored on stamps: Links to medicine.

2011 CE

#10918

Fever with thrombocytopenia associated with a novel Bunyavirus in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Yu, Liang, Zhang. Discovery of a new virus, suspected by the authors to be tick-borne. The authors named the virus, "severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus" (SFTSV…

2011 CE

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

2011 CE

#9314

Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic. A critical edition, with translation and commentary of Hunayn ibn Ishāq, Kitāb ayyām al-buhrān, by Glen M. Cooper.

First printed edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), a founding text of astrological medicine, together with the first translation of the text into a modern …

2011 CE

#9611

Galen: Method of medicine. Books 1-4, Books 5-9, Books 10-14. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G. H. R. Horsley. 3 vols.

2011 CE

#9081

Galen: On the anomalous dyskrasia (De inaequali intemperie). Editio maior. Edition, translation and commentary by Elsa Garcia Novo.

First critical edition and translation of this text by Galen which became a bestseller in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (translations into Syrian, Arabic, Latin 8 versions and Hebrew; 14 commentaries from 1290 t…

2011 CE

#8673

Genentech: The beginnings of biotech.

2011 CE

#10461

Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.

2011 CE

#7949

Healing the nation: Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War.

2011 CE

#12883

Historia cultural del dolor.

Translated into English as Pain: A cultural history by Sarah Thomas and Paul House. Houndsmills, Basingsgoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

2011 CE

#7939

Historia de la medicina en el Paraguay.

2011 CE

#8408

History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.

Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link.

2011 CE

#7681

Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.

A history of the Leverian Museum with discussion of other contemporary institutions. Includes an inventory tracing the current location of thousands of items from the Leverian Museum since its dispersal. Many illustra…

2011 CE

#10545

Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.

2011 CE

#10625

House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.

Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]

2011 CE

#8340

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An annotated translation of Huang Di's inner classic- Basic questions. 2 vols.

2011 CE

#8888

Innovations médicales en situations humanitaires: La travail de Médecins Sans Frontières.

Translated into English as Medical innovations in humanitarian situations: The work of Médecins San Frontières (20).

2011 CE

#12240

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

2011 CE

#10142

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

2011 CE

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.

2011 CE

#12056

La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.

2011 CE

#10697

Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.

2011 CE

#12730

Lexique des terms de la pharmacopée syriaque. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 47; Chrétiens en terre d'Iran, 5)

A dictionary of Syriac names for plants used to make botanic drugs.

2011 CE

#13641

Linnaeus Link.

http://www.linnaeuslink.org/search/ "The Linnaeus Link Project is an international collaboration between libraries with significant holdings of Linnaean material. It is funded, maintained and co-ordinated by the Linne…

2011 CE

#8535

Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29. Part 1: Edition and commentary of List 1 (Hebrew-Arabic- Romance /Latin).

The first critical edition of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush, and a lexicological analysis of the medico-botanical terms in the first of the two synonym lists of this book. The Sefer ha-Shimmush was…

2011 CE

#10576

Medicine, government, and public health in Philip II's Spain: Shared interests, competing authorities.

2011 CE

#10360

Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.