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1995 CE
#8129
Medical ethics in the Renaissance.
The first comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance.
1979 CE
#8128
Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.
The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …
1949 CE
#8127
La Doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallèles grecs.
Second edition, Paris: Ecole Française d'Extêm-Orient, 1975. English translation: The classical doctrine of Indian medicine: Its origins and its Greek parallels. Translated from the original in French by …
1973 CE
#8126
Galenism: Rise and decline of a medical philosophy.
1991 CE
#8125
Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.
2001 CE
#8124
Medical ethics in the ancient world.
1985 CE
#8123
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
1978 CE
#8122
Graphic presentation of statistical information: Papers presented at the 136th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section: Session of Graphical Methods for Presenting Statistical Data: Boston, Massachusetts, August 23-26, 1976, Vol. 3.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1914 CE
#8121
Graphic methods for presenting facts.
The first book on information graphics published in America. Digital facsimile of the 1919 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.
1939 CE
#8120
The social function of science.
This pioneering sociological study contained two large folding information graphics. The first was one of the first attempts at a "map of science." It divided science into physical, biological, and social sectors, and…
2004 CE
#8119
Google Books.
https://books.google.com/intl/EN/googlebooks/about.html. From the Wikipedia article on Google Books, accessed 12 -2016: "Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google …
2008 CE
#8118
Hathi Trust Digital Library.
"HathiTrust began in 2008 as a collaboration of the universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (now the Big Ten Academic Alliance) and the University of California system to establish a repository to a…
2010 CE
#8117
The Wellcome Library Digital Collections.
http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/ "The Wellcome Library is developing a world-class online resource for the history of medicine by digitising a substantial proportion of its holdings and maki…
1996 CE
#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 …
1964 CE
#8115
MEDLINE
From the Wikipedia article on MEDLINE, accessed 12-2016: MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It…
1998 CE
#8114
MedlinePlus.
https://medlineplus.gov/ "MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical librar…
1996 CE
#8113
PubMed.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ "PubMed comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of bi…
2000 CE
#8112
PubMed Central (PMC).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ "PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In …
2010 CE
#8111
Medical Heritage Library: Opening access to seven centuries of medical history.
http://www.medicalheritage.org/ "The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical reso…
1861 CE
#8110
De Mexique au point de vue de son influence sur la vie de l'homme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1864 CE
#8109
Le Mexique et l'Amérique tropicale: climats, hygiène et maladies.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1907 CE
#8108
Physiologie de l'aéronaute: Travail du laboratoire de la clinique médicale de l'Hôtel-Dieu. M. le Professeur Dieulafoy.
Physiological studies of balloonists; extensive bibliography. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1918 CE
#8107
Air service medical manual.
The first U. S. work dedicated to the medical aspects of military pilot selection. According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, this manual was written by William Holland Wilmer, then director of the Medic…
2016 CE
#8106
The smoke of London: Energy and environment in the early modern city.
2012 CE
#8105
The sick child in early modern England, 1580-1720.
The first book on children's health and illness in early modern England.
1684 CE
#1311
Dr. Willis's practice of physick.
The only complete edition of Willis's works in English, translated by the poet Samuel Pordage. It contains the translations of all his works except his Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae (1671). The collection inclu…
1995 CE
#8103
Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.
2000 CE
#8102
Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.
2007 CE
#8101
Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.
2013 CE
#8100
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
2010 CE
#8099
Vaccines: A biography. Edited by Andrew W. Artenstein.
2012 CE
#8098
Man and wound in the ancient world: A history of military medicine from Sumer to the fall of Constantinople.
2013 CE
#8097
Between flesh and steel: A history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan.
1943 CE
#8096
A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.
The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…
1725 CE
#8095
Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Edited by Herman Boerhaave and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. 2 vols.
Vesalius's collected works with the famous woodcuts reproduced as copperplate engravings by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). Notably Boerhaave and Albinus had this edition published because Vesalius's works still had practi…
1893 CE
#8094
La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques.
The first book on medical photography. Digital facsimile from http://jubilotheque.upmc.fr at this link.
2012 CE
#8093
Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.
2006 CE
#8092
Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
1981 CE
#8091
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…
2006 CE
#8090
Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
1995 CE
#8089
Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.
1986 CE
#8088
The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.
1989 CE
#8087
Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.
1995 CE
#8086
Making a place for ourselves: The Black hospital movement 1920-1945.
2010 CE
#8085
Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.
1949 CE
#8084
The Negro in the medical profession.
Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.
1992 CE
#8083
Beyond Flexner: Medical education in the twentieth century. Edited by Barbara Barzansky and Norman Gevitz.
1983 CE
#8082
Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.
2000 CE–2002 CE
#8081
An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900. Vol. 2: Race, medicine and health care in the United States 1900-2000.
2008 CE
#8080
National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.
Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…