Facets

2006

#12672

Les chrétiens dans la médecine arabe.

2007

#6977

Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.

Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…

2007

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2007

#8896

Litterature et medécine: Approaches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Alexandre Wenger.

2007

#9132

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…

2007

#9425

The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.

"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…

2007

#9704

Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.

2007

#9819

Graphic Medicine. www.graphicmedicine.org

2007

#10815

The sickroom in Victorian fiction: The art of being ill.

2007

#11171

Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.

2007

#12159

Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.

2007

#12351

Evolution and creationism: A documentary and reference guide.

2007

#13304

Disability in Islamic law.

2007

#13645

Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.

2008

#9852

Literature and medicine, future tense: Making it graphic.

A relatively early discussion of the principles of graphic medicine. Available from obermann.uiowa.edu at this link.

2008

#12097

Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.

"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…

2008

#13166

The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.

An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.

2009

#7222

The Cambridge world history of medical ethics. Edited by Robert B. Baker and Lawrence B. McCullough.

2009

#7650

Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.

Text and captions in English and German.

2009

#7852

Medical miracles: Doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world.

2009

#8463

Medicine & health care in early Christianity.

2009

#9120

Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne. With an essay by Oliver Sacks.

2009

#9677

De Fasciculus medicinae opnieuv bekeken (Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae-Dissertationes, Series Historica, DSH, 11).

A detailed analysis of all the editions of Ketham's Fasciculus.

2009

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2009

#11258

Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.

2009

#11825

Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.

"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…

2009

#12140

Tormented hope: Nine hypochondriac lives.

Accounts of writers, artists, and scientists: James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol.

2009

#13662

Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.

2009

#14357

Milton and maternal mortality.

"All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Mi…

2010

#7248

Early Medicine, from the body to the stars.

Extensively annotated, magnificently printed catalogue (590pp. in 4to) entirely illustrated in color, of an exhibition of 250 early medical manuscripts, printed books, and related objects from the ancient world to the…

2010

#7656

Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.

2010

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2010

#8147

Atlas of science: Visualizing what we know.

2010

#8367

Arab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.

2010

#9397

The illustrated Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Edited with an introduction and essays by Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason.

Reprints selected portions of the 1913 A. A. Brill translation together essays by Masson and excerpts from Jung, Lacan, and Horney. Includes many full page or double-page color reproductions of works by modernist and …

2010

#11662

Osler's bedside libraries: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Edited by Michael A. LaCombe and David J. Elpern.

2010

#11926

Holistic healing in Byzantium. Edited by John T. Chirban.

2010

#12723

Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.

2011

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

2011

#7823

Famous personalities honored on stamps: Links to medicine.

2011

#10008

Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950.

http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php? "Welcome to the Database of Illustrators! Courtesy of the Section for History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart ! Our online database, fully function…

2011

#10360

Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.

2011

#10493

Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.

"Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleonto…

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

#10697

Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.

2012

#7751

Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.

A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne …

2012

#8065

Health and illness: Images of difference.

2012

#8262

Mamluks and animals: Veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.

The first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and patients, in the medieval Islamic world.

2012

#8358

Handbook of religion and health. 2nd edition.

2012

#8389

Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.