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1908

#10392

Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1908

#12898

La photographie au laboratoire de médecine légale de l'Université de Nancy.

iIlustrated with 77 photographs, Bedin's work describes the methods and practices of forensic photography developed at Nancy between 1905 and 1908. The work is divided into two parts: The first part contains four chap…

1908

#13600

L'Honneur médical, manuel de déontologie élémentaire.

A treatise on medical ethics and the duties of the physician influenced by Christian religious beliefs. Translated into English by W.P. Grant as Medical etiquette (Handbook of elementary deontology). With a preface by…

1910

#11729

Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes: A celebrated malpractice suit in Maine.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1913

#211

On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetrated in scie…

1916

#8599

Studies in ethics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1921

#1756

Medicolegal application of human blood grouping.

An important series of papers on blood-grouping and the jurisprudence of paternity. Ottenberg performed the first matched-blood transfusion.

1924

#1758

The doctor’s oath, an essay in the history of medicine.

The Hippocratic Oath forms the basis of medical ethics. It was probably an ancient temple oath of the Asclepiadae, and not a genuine Hippocratic document. In the above work the various manuscripts of the Oath are enum…

1925

#10615

Bryan and Darrow at Dayton. The Record and documents of the "Bible-Evolution Trial." Edited and compiled by Leslie H. Allen.

Key documents from the Scopes Trial. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1927

#10355

The care of the patient.

Full text from depts.washington.edu at this link.

1930

#13387

What medicine can do for law. The Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine November 1, 1928.

When he delivered this presentation Cardozo was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1832 President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

1931

#14209

U. S. Plant patent 1. Climbing or trailing rose. Filed Aug. 6, 1930. Issued Aug. 18, 1931.

This was the first patent granted for a life form. In response to complaints from the nursery industry that the future of the plant breeding industry was jeopardized by the “pirating” of new plant varieties, President…

1935

#10057

The care of the aged, the dying and the dead.

Digital facsimile of the 2nd edition (1940) from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1937

#10198

The Citadel.

This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…

1937 –1960

#10200

Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.

Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …

1947

#7892

Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Quellen.

English version: Doctors of infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes, translated from German by Heinz Norden. With statements of 3 American authorities identified with the Nuremberg medical trial and a note on med…

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1948

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1948 –2017

#10356

WMA Declaration of Geneva.

Modernized version of the Hippocratic Oath, promulgated in response to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/ "Adopted by the 2nd General Assembly of the World Me…

1950

#1757

Reciprocal skin homografts in a medico-legal case of familial identification of exchanged identical twins.

Skin grafting used to decide the relationship of identical twins who had been accidentally separated at birth.

1951

#10616

Inherit the wind.

This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

1953

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…

1953

#7264

The Piltdown Forgery.

Fiftieth anniversary edition with a new introduction and afterward by Chris Stringer (Oxford University Press, 2003).

1953

#7301

The solution of the Piltdown problem.

Exposure of the Piltdown fraud. Weiner, Oakley and Le Gros Clark found ample evidence of forgery in the Piltdown remains, including the use of artificial abrasion and staining; they also applied fluorine and nitrogen …

1954

#11714

Heart disease and industry with particular reference to workmen's compensation cases.

"The first monograph on the subject" (W. Bruce Fye).

1959

#8135

Jewish medical ethics: A comparative and historical study of the Jewish religious attitude to medicine and its practice.

1962

#8893

The battered-child syndrome.

"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …

1962

#9887

The human skeleton in forensic medicine.

1962

#10357

A history of American medical ethics, 1847-1912.

The first history of medical ethids in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1964

#10358

La relación médico-enfermo: Historia y teoria.

A history of the doctor-patient relationship. Translated into English by Frances Partridge as Doctor and patient (London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1969). Digital facsimile of the Spanish edition from cervantes.virtual.c…

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1967

#10644

Hippocrate, Du régime. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On regimen of the Hippocratic Collection. The treatise dates to the late 5th or early 4th century BCE.

1968

#7928

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

1968

#11751

Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)

1969 –1972

#6841

Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.

First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…

1970

#6485.4

La medicina Hipocrática.

1970

#10059

The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.

Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

1970

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1972

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…

1972

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1973

#257.5

Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.

Cohen, Boyer and associates developed the first practical method for cloning genes, by the formation of recombinant plasmids which can be used to infect plasmid-free bacteria. The authors demonstrated that if DNA is f…

1973

#8136

Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.

Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.

1973

#8730

International bibliography of the history of legal medicine.

1975

#12171

Iohannis Alexandrini commentaria in sextum librum Hippocratis epidemiarum. Edited and critically annotated by C. D. Pritchet.

1976

#1757.1

Highlights in medicolegal relations. Revised & enlarged ed.

1977

#7074

Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.

A collective work edited by West and Walk.

1977

#12174

Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].

1978

#10209

Offenses against one's self. Edited by Louis Crompton.

This is the first publication of Jeremy Bentham's essay on "Paederasty," written about 1785. Bentham suppressed the essay during his lifetime, for fear of public outrage at his views on liberalizing the laws concernin…

1978

#10691

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XIII: Des lieux dans l'homme, Du système des glandes, Des fistules, Des hémorroïdes, De la vision, Des chairs, De la dentition. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection concerning anatomy, physiology, and pathology with the following possible periods of orig…

1979

#8128

Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.

The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …