Facets

1998

#10477

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

1998

#12779

Healers and healing in early modern Europe.

"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

1999

#8722

The surgeon's stage: A history of the operating room.

Perhaps the only book on this special subject; numerous illustrations, mostly in color.

1999

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

1999

#11278

The works of Egerton Yorrick Davis, MD, Sir William Osler's alter ego. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard L. Golden.

1999

#12754

Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.

"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…

2000

#7643

New atlas of human anatomy.

The first printed atlas of color computer images adapted from 3D images developed in the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. Includes CD-ROM with 3D electronic images.

2000

#8272

Jewish bioethics, edited by J. David Bleich and Fred Rosner.

2000

#8314

Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.

2000

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2000

#8628

Medicina in nummis, 1974-1994: Hungarian coins and medals related to medicine.

2000

#8676

Defining features: Scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000.

2000

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

2000

#9061

Creativity and disease: How illness affects literature, art and music. 4th edition.

2000

#9094

The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.

Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.

2000

#9790

Music as medicine: The history of music therapy since antiquity. Edited by Peregrine Horden.

2000

#10339

Science, race, and religion in the American South. John Bachman and the Charleston circle of naturalists, 1815-1895.

2000

#11092

Asclepius, the god of medicine.

2000

#12528

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

2000

#12669

[Comprehensive bibliography of Syriac medicine] in A comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity.

As of 2020 the most comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Medicine that I located online was part of the Comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity in the website of The Center for the Study of Christianity Esta…

2000

#13017

The English parson-naturalist: A companionship between science and religion.

2000

#13753

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

2001

#7654

Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

2001

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2001

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2002

#10238

BioDigital.

https://www.biodigital.com/ "The Word's First Human Visualization Platform: Anatomy, Disease & Treatments— all in interactive 3D. Web, Mobile and Augmented Reality "the virtual body as the health equivalent of Google …

2002

#10410

Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.

Medical rituals of the Lacota people.

2003

#9491

Anatomia 1522-1867. Anatomical plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

https://resource.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm "This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah …

2003

#10244

ArtandMedicine.com.

http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.

2003

#10818

Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…

2003

#12059

Victorian detective fiction: The scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle.

2004

#8068

Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.

See No. 4558.1

2004

#8312

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.

The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2004

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2005

#8295

From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in Late Antiquity.

2005

#8787

Religion and healing in America. Edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered.

2005

#9453

Drugs and theater in early modern England.

2005

#10076

Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science.

2005

#10232

Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.

2006

#6839

Dream Anatomy... Anatomy and the artistic imagination.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Library of Medicine from October 9, 2002 to July 21, 2003. In May 2015 the website built for the exhibition was available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/.

2006

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

2006

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

2006

#9820

Mom's cancer.

This book was born digital in 2004, and later published in print. See www.momscancer.com. "Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version" "Brian Fies is a freelance…

2006

#9873

Miracles in Enlightenment England.

Chapter 3: Miracle workers dn healers. Chapter 4: Valentine Greatrakes and the New Philosophy, etc.

2006

#9926

Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.

2006

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

2006

#11650

The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.