Facets

1982

#12492

The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.

1983

#5813.13

Surgery in America. From the colonial era to the twentieth century. Second edition.

Well-chosen readings from original published sources, with informative commentary.

1983

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1983

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

1983

#10407

Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.

"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…

1983 –1998

#10797

Pictorial encyclopedia of Civil War medical instruments and equipment. 3 vols.

1984

#8622

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800-1860.

1984

#10105

The AMA and U.S. health policy since 1940.

1984

#10298

Medical education in Mississippi: A history of the School of Medicine.

1984

#10302

Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900,

1984

#10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

1984

#10988

The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984.

1985

#6786.28

American medical imprints, 1820-1910. 2 vols.

The work of over 40 years, this catalogue describes over 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides, arranged by decade, from 1820-1910, with a comprehensive index. Included is an essay: 19th century American medical lit…

1985

#10054

A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.

1985

#10306

Scalpels and sabers: Nineteenth century medicine in Texas.

1985

#10430

Sympathy and science: Women physicians in American medicine.

"Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early Ame…

1986

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

1986

#9464

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

1986

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific and pr…

1986

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

1986

#13784

Of birds and Texas.

Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…

1987

#2188.4

The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987

#6596.61

The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.

1987

#6927

Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.

The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.

1987

#7857

The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.

1987

#8601

Ordered to care: The dilemma of American nursing, 1850-1945.

1987

#10431

American medical schools and the practice of medicine: A history.

1987

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1987

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

1988 –1992

#5813.14

The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.

The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, uro…

1988

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

1988

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1988

#9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

1988

#10015

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.

1989

#8667

A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.

1989

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1989

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

1989

#10079

Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.

1989

#10331

Saddlebags to scanners: The first 100 years of medicine In Washington State. Edited by Nancy M. Rockefellar and James W. Haviland.

1990

#7883

A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.

Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.

1990

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1990

#10985

Osler's legacy: The department of medicine at Johns Hopkins 1889-1989.

1991

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1991

#10409

The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.

1991

#10983

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.

1992

#9568

The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.