Facets

2016

#8550

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.

2016

#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

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

2016

#9795

Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body parts, sicknesses, instruments, and medicinal preparations. 2 vols.

Based on a detailed analysis of 11,397 pages from medical manuscripts and early printed books.It includes information on the spelling variants, origins, and meanings of the terms. A wealth of quotations from the texts…

2016

#9812

L'Anonyme de Londres. P.: Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. Inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. Edited by Antonio Ricciardetto.

Edition of the Greek text with French translation and introduction. Apart from minor changes listed on page vii, the work reproduces the previous publication by the author in the collection Papyrologia Leodensia (Lièg…

2016

#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

#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

#11049

Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.

2016

#12312

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

2017

#9702

Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858.

2017

#9808

La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne.

The most comprehensive study of this subject.

2017

#9882

Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.

"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …

2017

#10627

Avicenne et la médecine en Italie. Le Canon dans les universités (1200-1350).

2017

#10661

Irish medical education and student culture, c. 1850-1950.

2017

#10752

The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.

Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the …

2017

#10754

Infertility in early modern England.

2017

#11033

Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.

2017

#11038

Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…

2017

#11088

A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.

2017

#12626

A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.

"One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and…

2018

#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

#9792

The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.

2018

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2018

#11474

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

2018

#11831

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

2018

#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

#12425

Science and medicine in Imperial Russia. Second edition.

Concerns the development of medicine, chemistry and biology in Russia before the revolution.

2018

#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, whic…

2018

#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

#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

#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

#12614

The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.

2018

#12625

The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.

2019

#11073

The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.

A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."

2019

#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…

2019

#13015

Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the oldest manuscript of his Pantegni.

"Medicine at Monte Cassino offers unprecedented insights into the revolutionary arrival of Arabic medicine to medieval Europe by exploring the oldest manuscript of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, which is identifi…

2020

#12981

The dome of uryne: A reading edition of nine Middle English uroscopies.

"This volume contains nine of the most widely disseminated Middle English uroscopies, each of them short enough to be consulted quickly by practitioners and all of them commonly found in English medical miscellanies. …

2020

#13092

Forbidden knowledge: Medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy.

2021

#13087

Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels' Catalogue. Edited by Alain Touwaide. 5 vols.

Vol. 1: Diels' catalogue with indices. Vol. 2: Corpus Hippocraticum Vol. 3: Corpus Galenicum Vol. 4: Ceteri Medici Vol. 5. The manuscripts and their texts. "The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studi…

2021

#13273

American men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering with roots in Czechoslovakia.

2021

#14104

Morbid undercurrents: Medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France.

"During the 1790s and beyond, medicine left the somber halls of universities, hospitals, and learned societies and became profoundly politicized, inspiring a whole panoply of different—often bizarre and shocking—subcu…