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1978 CE

#9136

Almost persuaded: American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920.

1975 CE

#9135

Blue Cross since 1929: Accountability and the public trust.

1968 CE

#9134

An uneasy equilibrium: Private and public financing of health service in the United States 1875-1965.

The central theme of this book is that health policy in the Unitesd States is the product of a deep ambivalence in public attitudes that on the one hand support a private, market-oriented health provision system, whil…

1985 CE

#9133

The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.

Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …

2007 CE

#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…

1973 CE

#9131

Awakenings.

Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…

1990 CE

#9130

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Canon of Greek authors and works. Third edition.

"In addition to digitizing texts, the TLG developed the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, originally a "registry" of all works included or about to be included in the corpus. Over time the Canon developed into an indi…

1968 CE

#9129

Galen's system of physiology and medicine. An analysis of his doctrines and observations on blood flow, respiration, humors and internal diseases.

1970 CE

#9128

Galen on sense perception: His doctrines, observations and experiments on vision, hearing, smell, touch and pain, and their historical sources.

1999 CE

#9127

Galen. On my own opinions. Galeni De propriis placitis. Edition, introduction and translation by Vivian Nutton. CMG 5.3.2.

De propriis placitis is Galen's final work in which he reflected on some of the fundamental medical problems that occupied him throughout his long career. "This treatise is not quite the comprehensive survey of a life…

1979 CE

#9126

Galen: On prognosis: Text, translation, commentary by Vivian Nutton. CMG V.8.1.

1998 CE

#9125

Galen on antecedent causes. Introduction, text, translation and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.

1977 CE

#9124

Galen on language and ambiguity. An English transltion of Galen's De captionibus (On fallacies), with introduction, text and commentary by R. B. Edlow.

1981 CE–1984 CE

#9123

Galen: On the doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato. Edition, translation and commentary by Phillip DeLacy. 3 vols.

1970 CE

#9122

Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.

Revised edition, 1990.

1887 CE

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

2009 CE

#9120

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

2005 CE

#9119

Nature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display.

2007 CE

#9118

The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States.

2008 CE

#9117

A history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

1854 CE

#9116

On the construction, organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1994 CE

#9115

The art of asylum-keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the origins of Ameican psychiatry.

2016 CE

#9114

Remaking the American patient: How Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers.

"In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explo…

1999 CE

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

1969 CE

#9112

Roman medicine.

1886 CE

#9111

Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1958 CE

#9110

Late ancient and medieval population.

Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.

1988 CE

#9109

La prostitution médiévale.

Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but we…

2014 CE

#9108

Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages. Edited by Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler.

"... a dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles i…

1989 CE

#9107

Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century Valencia.

1987 CE

#9106

Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.

1988 CE

#9105

Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.

1985 CE

#9104

Histoire de la démographie: La statique de la population des origines à 1914.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1955 CE

#9103

A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.

1995 CE

#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…

1987 CE

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

1903 CE

#9100

Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1970 CE

#9099

History of human life span and mortality. Translated by K. Balás.

A particularly valuable collection of reviews ot his work published in Current Anthropology, I5 (1974) 495-507 is available from JSTOR at this link.

1984 CE

#9098

The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.

Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…

1968 CE

#9097

Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.

1991 CE

#9096

Galen on the therapeutic method. Books I and II. Translated with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.

First translation into a modern language of Books ! and II of De methodo medendi. Very extensive introduction, commentary and bibliography.

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

2000 CE

#9094

The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.

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

1951 CE

#9093

A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.

First translation into a modern language.

2017 CE

#9092

Principles of anatomy according to the opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius. Edited [with an English translation] by Vivian Nutton.

The first translation into English of Johann Guinter’s textbook as revised and annotated by Guinter’s student, Andreas Vesalius, in 1538. Despite Vesalius’ fame as an anatomist, his 1538 revision has…

1538 CE

#9091

Guenter von Andernach: Institutionum anatomicarum secundum Galeni sententiam ad candidatos medicinae libri quatuor per Joannem Guinterium Andernacum medicum ab Andrea Vesalio Bruxellensi auctiores & emendatiores redditi.

Shortly after the publication of Tabulae anatomicae sex, Vesalius completed this revision of Institutiones anatomicae, a Galenic anatomical text by his teacher Johann Guinter first published in 1536. Vesalius justifie…

1800 CE–1804 CE

#9090

The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each. 5 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1802 CE–1808 CE

#9089

The natural history of British fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. Taken entirely from original drawings, purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part whilst living. 5 vols.

"the paint is laid on so thickly that it is frequently impossible to see the engraved lines underneath. The already rich colouring is heightened by the addition of burnished highlights, albumen overglazes and metallic…

2002 CE

#9088

"Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld". Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienmedizin im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Hypnotismus und Heilmagnetismus.

1792 CE–1813 CE

#9087

The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. 16 vols.

Includes a total of 576 plates, of which 568 were colored.