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1986

#2702.5

Pioneers and early years: A history of British radiology.

Well-illustrated and carefully documented, incorporating detailed biographies of pioneers. Covers the history before 1930.

1986

#10201

The Visible Human Project.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html "The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional repre…

1986

#13185

Development of the ion X-ray tube: With a description of the Collection in the Medical Historical Museum, University of Copenhagen.

1986

#13990

Fluorescence detection in automated DNA sequence analysis.

Invention of the first semi-automated DNA sequencing machine by Leroy H. Hood, Lloyd M. Smith and colleagues. Abstract of the paper: "We have developed a method for the partial automation of DNA sequence analysis. Flu…

1987

#10242

The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.

http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …

1987

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987

#13931

Site-directed mutagenesis by gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells.

In 2007 Capecchi shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of em…

1987

#13940

Targeted correction of a mutant HPRT gene in mouse embryonic stem cells.

Smithies discovered, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previ…

1989

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1989

#12292

Three-dimensional display in nuclear medicine.

Maximum intensity projection (MIP) or MIP imaging, invented by Jerold Wallis, "is a method for 3D data that projects in the visualization plane the voxels with maximum intensity that fall in the way of parallel rays t…

1989

#13311

The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.

1989

#13312

God bless the microscope! A history of the Royal Microscopical Society over 150 years.

1990

#7073

Portraits of the insane. The case of Dr. Diamond, by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher.

Reproduces many of Diamond's photographs of psychiatric patients. Diamond was fascinated by the possible use of photography in the treatment of mental disorders; some of his many photographs depicting the expressions …

1990

#7180

From the watching of shadows. The origins of radiological tomography.

1990

#9776

A chronology of nuclear medicine.

c. 1990

#13586

Casey A. Wood Collection: Complete inventory list. P145.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/33597385/casey-a-wood-collection-osler-library-archives-mcgill-university "This is a guide to one of the collections held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill …

1990

#14237

Historical atlas of crystallography.

1990

#14340

Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.

Working in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one targ…

1991

#7718

Human cross-sectional anatomy: Atlas of body sections and CT images.

1991

#8138

Telepresence: Dextrous procedures in a virtual operating field.

The first teleoperated surgery. Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the first prototype of a telesurgery robot was developed at Stanford Research International (SRI) (Menlo Park, CA) and called the Green Telepresence…

1991

#12938

Mapping the brain and its functions: Integrating enabling technologies into neuroscience research. Edited by Constance M. Pechura and Joseph B. Martin. Committee on a National Neural Circuitry Database....

The digital edition is available from nap.edu at this link.

1992

#7184

Radiology: An illustrated history.

1992

#7354

Brain maps: Structure of the rat brain.

The first computer graphics atlas of the brain of any species, with the illustration files also available separately (1993). The work included a complete and systematic, hierarchically organized set of annotated nomen…

1992

#11539

The laboratory revolution in medicine. Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams.

Laboratory medicine developed in the nineteenth century, principally in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. While a number of scholars have studied various aspects of laboratory medicine in the nineteenth…

1992

#14171

Sex reassignment. Thirty years of international follow-up studies after sex reassignment surgery: A comprehensive review, 1961-1991. Translated from German into American English by Roberta B. Jacobson and Alf B. Meier.)

Includes an extensive bibliography of printed and online sources. https://web.archive.org/web/20070520063824/http://www.symposion.com/ijt/pfaefflin/1000.htm

1993

#7182

Radiological oncologists: The unfolding of a medical specialty.

1993

#7183

A century of x-rays and radioactivity in medicine. With emphasis on photographic records of the early years.

1993

#8518

Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…

1993

#8618

The uses of life: A history of biotechnology.

1994

#7583

Radiologie in der medizinischen Diagnostik. Evolution der Röntgenstrahlenanwendung 1895-1995.

Includes a section on the development of tomography and computed tomography (CT). Translated into English by Peter F. Winter as Radiology in medical diagnostics: Evolution of X-ray applications 1895-1995 (Oxford: Blac…

1994

#9718

Molecular politics: Developing American and British regulatory policy for genetic engineering, 1972-1982.

1994

#10499

CERL. Consortium of European Research Libraries

https://www.cerl.org/resources/main "The Consortium was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. CERL seeks to share resources and exp…

1994

#13823

A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.

1995

#11142

Anatomy atlases: An anatomy digital library curated by Ronald A. Bergman.

https://www.anatomyatlases.org/ "About Us Curate a comprehensive digital library of anatomy information for patients and providers. Maximize the impact of this digital library by enhancing awareness among potential us…

1996

#6985

Views of the cell. A pictorial history.

Sixty images (reproduced in color where appropriate) with detailed commentary and bibliographical references, arranged in chronological order, from the first images viewed through the microscope to electron micrographs.

1996

#7185

The pioneers of NMR and magnetic resonance in medicine: The story of MRI.

1996

#7975

Information retrieval: A health care perspective.

Third edition as Information retrieval: A health and biomedical perspective (2009).

1996

#8116

Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/index.php From the Wikipedia article on the Internet Archive, accessed 12-2016: "The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access…

1996

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1996

#8661

Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…

1996

#9201

The microscope in the Dutch Republic: The shaping of discovery.

Focusing on Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the author demonstrates that their uneasiness with their social circumstances spurred their discoveries. Ruestow argues that while aspects of Dutch culture impede…

1996

#9426

Photographic atlas of Civil War injuries. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Otis Historical Archives.

1996

#9427

Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.

1996 –1997

#10850

The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.

1996

#11110

Making PCR: A story of biotechnology.

1996

#11183

Historic Embryology Papers.

https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Historic_Embryology_Papers#Introduction "Introduction The linked papers are intended to give some historic background to Embryology. Historically, say pre-20th c…

1996 –2018

#12939

The history of neuroscience in autobiography, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire. 10 vols.

"The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography is a collection of autobiographical chapters, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire, that details the lives and discoveries of eminent senior neuroscientists. "During…

1997

#7181

Naked to the bone. Medical imaging in the twentieth century.

1997

#7457

Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells.

Cloning of the lamb Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Her birth established that the nuclei of at least some adult cells can be used to produce sheep or other animals that are genetically identi…

1997

#8168

Gallica: La bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Gallica includes printed materials, graphic materials, and sound recordings. These materials are royalty-free and available free of charge when used strictly for private purposes. http://gallica.bnf.fr/