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1993 CE

#8179

A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.

1964 CE

#8178

Automated multiphasic screening and diagnosis.

Describes aspects of the pioneering automated multiphasic screening and diagnosis program at the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, the origins of their medical informatics system, developed by Collen and colleagues at Ka…

1995 CE

#8177

A history of medical informatics in the United States, 1950-1990.

Second edition, edited by Morris F. Collen and Marion J. Ball, and published the year after Collen's death at the age of 100, retitled The history of medical informatics in the United States (New York: Springer, 2015).

1883 CE

#8176

Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1980 CE

#8175

Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry: The Dendral project.

1964 CE

#8174

HPP-64-1 DENDRAL-64-A system for computer construction, enumeration and notation of organic molecules as three structures and cyclic graphs. Interim report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, December 15, (1964).

DENDRAL is considered the first expert system because it automated the decision-making process and problem-solving behavior of organic chemists. The project consisted of research on two main programs, Heuristic Dendra…

1979 CE

#8173

The growth of medical information systems in the United States.

"About a fourth of the operating cost off hospitals is expended on information handling. (p. 2).

1968 CE

#8172

The computer and medical care.

1998 CE

#8171

U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Projects.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalprojects.html Also: Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the World's Largest Biomedical Library: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

2001 CE

#8170

ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online.

http://echo.gmu.edu/ "ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a portal to over 5,000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. This guide helps researchers find the exact informat…

1997 CE

#8169

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek.

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ "Since 1997, the Munich Digitization Center has been offering the rich holdings of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) on the Internet. It is the central innovation and production unit…

1997 CE

#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/

2001 CE

#8167

The Wikipedia.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history When I posted this in December 2016 there were over 5,300,000 entries just in the English language Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Though, of course, the q…

2005 CE

#8166

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

2016 CE

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

2009 CE

#8164

De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.)

2007 CE

#8163

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

1978 CE

#8162

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).

1963 CE

#8161

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

2014 CE

#8160

Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

2015 CE

#8159

NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity. Foreward by Oliver Sacks.

A very well written semi-popular historical account of autism.

1985 CE

#8158

Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal Cl0x/Nox interaction.

Discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. In December 2016 the full text of the paper was available from ciesin.org at this link.

1974 CE

#8157

Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone.

Rowland and his post-doctoral student, Molina, suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), could reach the stratosphere where they would be dissociated by UV light, releasi…

1970 CE

#8156

The influence of nitrogen oxides on the atmospheric ozone content.

Crutzen showed that nitrous oxide impacts the ozone layer by pointing out "that emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a stable, long-lived gas produced by soil bacteria, from the Earth's surface could affect the amount of…

1967 CE

#8155

The theory of island biogeography.

MacArthur and Wilson showed that the species richness of an area could be predicted in terms of such factors as habitat area, immigration rate and extinction rate.

1916 CE

#8154

Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.

A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…

1912 CE

#8153

Die Entstehung der Kontinente.

Wegener originated the theory of continental drift in this paper on the origin of continents, which he conceived after being struck by the apparent correspondence in the shapes of the coastlines on the west and east s…

1907 CE

#8152

Das Werden der Welten. Mit Unterstützung des Verfassers aus dem schwedischen übersetzt von L. Bamberger.

In this work Arrhenius predicted the possibility of man-made global warming. His prediction that significant global warming would take ~3000 years to develop is now recognized as a substantial underestimate due in par…

2013 CE

#8151

3D printed bionic ears.

Description and illustration of the first 3D printed bionic organ: an ear. From the Abstract: "The ability to three-dimensionally interweave biological tissue with functional electronics could enable the creation of b…

1977 CE

#8150

Medical imaging by NMR.

Mansfield developed a mathematical technique that would allow NMR scans to take seconds rather than hours and produce clearer images than the technique Paul Lauterbur developed in 1973. Mansfield showed how gradients …

1963 CE

#8149

Representation of a Function by its Line Integrals, with Some Radiological Applications.

Cormack showed that changes in tissue density could be computed from x-ray data. Because of limitations in computing power no machine was constructed during the 1960s. Cormack's papers generated little interest until …

1801 CE

#8148

The statistical breviary; shewing, on a principle entirely new, the resources of every state and kingdom in Europe; illustrated with stained copperplate charts, representing the physical powers of each distinct nation with ease and perspicuity. To which is added, a similar exhibition of the ruling powers of Hindoostan.

In this work Playfair invented the pie chart. It has also been suggested that Playfair, often short of funds, may have colored the charts in all the copies himself—the process he characterized as "staining" in t…

2010 CE

#8147

Atlas of science: Visualizing what we know.

1983 CE

#8146

The visual display of quantitative information.

1964 CE

#8145

Essays on the history of physiology in Russia, by Kh.S. Koshtoyants. Editor of English translation: Donald B. Lindsley. Translated from the Russian by David Boder, Kristan Hanes [and] Natalie O'Brien.

Focuses on neurophysiology, especially the work of Sechenov and Pavlov. Originally published in Moscow, 1946.

2009 CE

#8144

The ambulance: A history.

2005 CE

#8143

Anyone, anything, anytime: A history of emergency medicine.

2013 CE

#8142

Before bioethics: A history of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution.

1999 CE

#8141

The American medical ethics revolution: How the AMA's code of ethics has transformed physicians' relationships to patients, professionals, and society.

1994 CE

#8140

The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.

The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …

1998 CE

#8139

Telesurgical laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

First teleoperated (robotic) surgery on a patient. "On March 3, 1997, I successfully performed the first “robotic” laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a 52-year old female patient who suffered from symptomatic…

1991 CE

#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…

2004 CE

#8137

Primer of robotic & telerobotic surgery. Edited by Garth H. Ballantyne, Jacques Marescaux, and Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.

1973 CE

#8136

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

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

1959 CE

#8135

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

1979 CE

#8134

The emergence of Roman Catholic medical ethics in North America: An historical, methodological, bibliographical study.

1883 CE

#8133

Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1770 CE

#8132

Observations on the duties and offices of a physician; and on the method of prosecuting enquiries in philosophy.

"The first philosophical, secular medical ethics in the English language" (Lawrence, Paul. "(John Gregory." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.). "Gregory divided the practice of medicine into four parts, or bran…

2014 CE

#8131

Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 4th edition. Edited by Bruce Jennings. 6 vols.

1993 CE–1995 CE

#8130

The codification of medical morality: Historical and philosophical studies of the formalization of western medical morality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Vol. 1: Volume One: Medical ethics and etiquette in the eighteenth century. Vol. 2: Anglo-American medical ethics and medical jurisprudence in the nineteenth century. Edited by Robert Baker, Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter.