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1990

#7165

Women of Science. Righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes.

1990

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1990

#10173

The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.

1991

#11221

Women under the knife: A history of surgery.

"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…

1991

#13930

A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition.

"In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were approxi…

1992

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1992

#8773

A documentary history of biochemistry, 1770-1940. By Mikuláš Teich with Dorothy M. Needham.

1992

#10283

To the ends of the earth: Women's search for education in medicine.

1992

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1993

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1993

#14341

Tuning the activity of an enzyme for unusual environments: Sequential random mutagenesis of subtilisin E for catalysis in dimethylformamide.

Arnold introduced a biochemical molecule manipulating technique to mimic the process of natural selection in creating new enzymes adapted to a specific catalytic reaction. She directed evolution of subtilisin E to obt…

1994

#7066

Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue.

Discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight. Friedman and associates subsequently found that injections of the encoded protein, leptin, decrease body weight of mice by reducing food intake a…

1994

#8453

The black death.

A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.

1994

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1994

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1994

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1994

#11177

The embryonic human brain: An atlas of developmental stages.

"The first work devoted to the staged, embryonic human brain."

1995

#8089

Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.

1995

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

1995

#10914

Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.

Chang, Moore and colleagues showed that the virus causing Kaposi's Sarcoma also causes body cavity lymphomas and lymphomatous effusions in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1995

#10979

An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness.

An autobiographical study of bipolar disorder by a distinguished American clinical psychologist who personally suffers from this disorder.

1995

#11023

Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.

Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…

1995

#11419

The history of pharmacy: A selected annotated bibliography.

1995

#11838

La practica secundum Trotam: Testo, traduzione, appendici e glossario

1996

#9162

Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.

"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…

1996

#11829

Manuale medico / Paolo di Nicea ; testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico, traduzione e note a cura di Anna Maria Ieraci Bio

1996

#11852

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.

The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…

1996

#13829

Notable women in the life sciences: A biographical dictionary.

1997

#7166

Women in the biological sciences. A biobibliographic sourcebook.

1997

#9060

Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.

1997

#11050

Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.

1997

#12326

A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.

1998

#8434

Hippocrates' woman: Reading the female body in ancient Greece.

1998

#8458

Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing. Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.

1998

#10434

Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds

1998

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

1998

#10900

Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…

1998

#10933

A history of the Society of Apothecaries.

1998

#11079

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …

1998

#11342

Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1999

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1999

#7153

Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

1999

#8721

Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine.

1999

#8937

Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.

1999

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

1999

#10179

Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.

The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.

1999

#10429

Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.

"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …

1999

#10977

Medicine in Maryland: The practice and profession, 1799-1999.

1999

#11040

Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Gao, Bailes, Robertson, Hahn. Demonstration, led by Hahn, that HIV-1 originated specifically in the chimpanzee--a mutant of the chimp SIV (SIV-cpz) which acquired mutations s…

2000

#8294

Medicine and the making of Roman women: Gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen.