Facets

2014

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2014

#10699

Animalia: Men and animal care in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.

2014

#10909

A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.

"Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approxima…

2014

#10928

Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Guéké…

2014

#10970

Wounded: A new history of the Western Front in World War I.

A comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front in World War I. Over 21 million military in were wounded in World War I, and nearly 10 million were killed.

2014

#11061

Uroscopy in Middle English: A guide to the texts and manuscripts. Studies in medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. 11.

2014

#11346

Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.

2014

#11359

Trans bodies, Trans selves: A resource for the transgender community. Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth.

2014

#14355

The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.

2015

#9000

Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.

Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…

2015

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

2015

#10556

Brought to Light: Stories from UCSF Archives & Special Collections.

https://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/broughttolight/

2015

#10620

The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.

2015

#10905

Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mous…

2015

#10917

Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for th…

2015

#10969

Ill composed: Sickness, gender, and belief in early modern England.

A cultural history of illness from the standpoint of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

2015

#11196

The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.

2015

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2015

#11848

Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adul…

2015

#11864

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes.

This paper was rejected by both Nature and Science partly for "ethical objections." When published it immediately triggered worldwide controversy among scientists and the public. This was the first application of the …

2015

#12408

Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.

2016

#7804

Virus: An illustrated guide to 101 incredible microbes.

Includes historical data, spectacular color photomicrographs, drawings, and geographical range maps for 101 viruses

2016

#8997

Nurse writers of the great war.

2016

#10050

Women medical doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A biographical dictionary.

2016

#10419

A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.

2016

#10485

Amatory pleasures: Explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture.

2016

#10667

Fixing medical prices: How physicians are paid.

2016

#10922

Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetemia: A descriptive study.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Mead, Johnson. Discovery of Lyme Borreliosis or Borrelia mayonii, a new variant of B. burgdorferi. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

2016

#10941

The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Sirohi, Rossmann, Kuhn. Using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the authors presented the molecular structure of the Zika virus at 3.8Å resolution. Digital facsimile f…

2016

#11409

Whole-genome characterization and strain comparison of VT2f-producing Escherichia coli causing hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Grande, Michelacci, Bondi.... Demonstration that a phage infecting E. coli conveys the genes into the E. coli that code for the production of the verotoxin that causes …

2016

#11437

Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.

2017

#9808

La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne.

The most comprehensive study of this subject.

2017

#9908

Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.

"The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimenta…

2017

#10539

Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.

2017

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

2017

#10661

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

2017

#10664

Rise of the modern hospital: An architectural history of health and healing, 1870-1940.

2017

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2017

#10730

Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.

2017

#10754

Infertility in early modern England.

2017

#10906

Proposal to reclassify Ehrlichia muris as Ehrlichia muris subsp. muris subsp. nov. and description of Ehrlichia muris subsp. eauclairensis subsp. nov., a newly recognized tick borne pathogen of humans.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Allderdice, Sloan. By extremely complex genotyping methods and fine electron microscopic analysis of the organism, the authors showed that the infectious agent i…

2017

#10971

A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.

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

#11053

Imperfect pregnancies: A history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.

2017

#11088

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

2017

#11296

Object lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.

2017

#11435

Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.

2017

#11865

Programmable base editing of A-T to G-C.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Gaudelli, Komor, Rees....Liu. Liu and colleagues developed an advanced CRISPR system that can edit pairings of DNA nucleotide bases Adenine and Thymine into Guanine and…

2018

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2018

#10533

Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .

Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.