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575 entries match Women & Gender [K01.700.500]
2008
#10134
A history of microsurgery.
2008
#10289
The encyclopedia of Civil War medicine.
2008
#10509
Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
2008
#10798
Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
2009
#7852
Medical miracles: Doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world.
2009
#10464
The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance. Edited by Cynthia Koss and Anne Scott.
2009
#10613
Medical authority and Englishwomen’s herbal texts, 1550–1650.
"Through an analysis of twenty-four examples of female-owned herbals supplemented by case studies of the herbal references in the writings of Margaret Hoby, Grace Mildmay, Elizabeth Isham, and Isabella Whitney, Rebecc…
2009
#10773
Women physicians and the cultures of medicine. Edited by Ellen S. Moore, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry.
2009
#10957
An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.
2009
#11412
Foul bodies: Cleanliness in early America.
2009
#11443
Women doctors in war.
The history of female physicians in the U.S. military.
2009
#11484
The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.
2010
#7844
The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.
2010
#9002
This birth place of souls: The Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz.
2010
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Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.
"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…
2010
#11076
Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Carey, Wang, ... Carlson. The authors showed that besides CO2, the odorant receptors in the malaria mosquistoes Anopheles gambiae are sensitive to other "mostly sweat" …
2010
#13016
Bibliography on medieval women, gender, and medicine 1980-2009. (Latest update: February 2, 2010).
"This bibliography comprises all the entries that appeared in the bibliography on “Women and Medicine” that I published periodically in the Medieval Feminist Forum (formerly, Medieval Feminist Newsletter) from 1990 to…
2011
#7100
A world of beasts: A thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition.
Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu and Bukht-Yishu in literature) were Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. The K…
2011
#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
#10545
Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.
2011
#10562
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.
This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…
2011
#10702
Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.
2011
#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
#11052
A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.
2012
#8747
Irish women in medicine, c. 1880s -1920s.
2012
#8955
Simon Online. Edited by Barbara Zipser.
http://www.simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Aims_of_the_project&oldid=12132 "Simon Online is a collaborative edition of Simon of Genoa's clavis sanationis, a medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century. More o…
2012
#10290
Lincoln and medicine.
2012
#10294
The art of medicine: Over 2000 years of images and imagination.
"The pharmaceutical magnate Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) sought to illumine the 'history of the Healing art' across cultures and from the ancient past to his own day through his vast historical medical collection. Th…
2012
#10586
Doctored: The medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America.
2012
#10708
Dissection on display: Cadavers, anatomists and public spectacle.
2012
#10915
A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsim…
2012
#11149
Les origines de la sexologie (1850-1900).
2012
#11844
A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, Chylinski, Fonfar, Hauer, Doudna, Charpentier. Doudna, Charpentier and colleagues showed for the first time that the CRISPR evolutionary immune tool of bacteria …
2013
#7198
"A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse.' Equine medicine in early modern England.
2013
#8760
A perfect vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer rare book collection
2013
#8838
The Oxford handbook of women and gender in Medieval Europe. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras.
Part V "Bodies, pleasures, desires" includes much of medical and biological interest, including a remarkable chapter by Kathryn M. Ringrose on "The Byzantine body."
2013
#8954
Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon. Edited by Barbara Zipser.
"Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a …
2013
#10414
"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link.
2013
#10486
The pleasure's all mine: A history of perverse sex.
2013
#10552
The Routledge history of sex and the body, 1500 to the present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher.
2013
#10712
Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .
2013
#11045
A novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Mead, Gandhi, Beck, Collinge. Collinge was the main author. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
2013
#11845
RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Jinek, East, Cheng...Doudna. Doudna and colleagues presented the first demonstration that the CRISPR Cas/Cas9 bacterial editing tool functions could be applied in human…
2013
#11847
RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mali, Yang, Esvelt....Church. Church and colleagues reported genome editing in human cells. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…
2014
#7845
Global population: History, geopolitics and life on earth.
2014
#7846
Imperial hygiene: A critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health.
2014
#7858
The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.
2014
#9108
Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages. Edited by Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler.
"... a dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles i…
2014
#10125
Learning from the wounded: The Civil War and the rise of American medical science.
How medical knowledge and experience gained during the U.S. Civil War advanced the development of American medicine after the war ended.
2014
#10422
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…