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1987 CE
#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. …
2000 CE
#10241
LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress.
This digital roadmap for the world's largest library was undoubtedly influential not just on other U.S. libraries but on other libraries around the world. "Contributors "National Research Council; Division on Engineer…
2016 CE
#10240
A critical history of schizophrenia.
2012 CE
#10239
The Repository.
https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science This is the Royal Society's History of Science blog.
2002 CE
#10238
BioDigital.
https://www.biodigital.com/ "The Word's First Human Visualization Platform: Anatomy, Disease & Treatments— all in interactive 3D. Web, Mobile and Augmented Reality "the virtual body as the health equivalent of G…
1971 CE
#10237
Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg, a volunteer project founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, was the first digital library. Later leapfrogged by much better financed non-profit or government-spon…
2011 CE
#10236
Animal inside out: A Body Worlds production.
Applying the technique and theatricality of plastination to the anatomy of animals including animals as large as elephants.
1853 CE
#10235
Change of climate considered as a remedy in dyspetic, pulmonary, and other chronic affections; with an account of the most eligible places of residence for invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, etc., at different seasons of the year; and an appendix on the mineral springs of the Pyrenees, Vichy, and Aix les Bains.
The author, a pulmonary specialist at Cavendish Square, London, provides a detailed manual for invalid travellers, seeking cures for tuberculosis, and indigestion and "nervous affections." It may be one of the first t…
1843 CE
#10234
Ensaio sobre a topographia medica de Lisboa. ou consideraçoens especiaes relativas a' sua historia; meteorologia; geognosia; agoas potaveis; zoologia, quanto aos animaes mais utei, e em quanto ao homem sua parte hygienica e medica; a população, e suas respectivas observaçoens, &c.
2003 CE
#10233
Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis.
This work, which was heralded as a masterwork of scholarship when published, originally consisted of 689pp. In 2006 the publishers issued "an abridgment" to make the work accessible to a "general readership." The abri…
2005 CE
#10232
Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.
2017 CE
#10231
Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain: A social history.
1781 CE
#10230
Some account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates. In a letter from Mr. Henry Smeathman...to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.
Pioneering study of tropical termites, their mounds, and their behavior, well illustrated with engravings. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.
1999 CE
#10229
The Nazi war on cancer.
1988 CE
#10228
Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
1759 CE–1775 CE
#10227
The vegetable system. Or, the internal structure and the life of plants; their parts, and nourishment explained; their classes, orders, genera, and species, ascertained, and described; in a method altogether new: Comprehending an artificial index and a natural system. With figures of all plants designed and engraved by the author. The whole from nature only. 26 vols.
This very extensive work consisting of 26 vols. in folio, with a total of 1548 plates, was the first comprehensive vernacular presentation of botany adopting Linnean generic names and binary nomenclature. It describes…
1939 CE
#10226
Alcoholics Anonymous: The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.
"Describes how to recover from alcoholism, primarily written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to tr…
2010 CE
#10225
The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.
"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …
2008 CE
#10224
The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.
" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…
1973 CE
#10223
Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1981 CE
#10222
Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.
A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.
2002 CE
#10221
History of human parasitology.
Full text, with extensive bibliography, from PubMedCentral at this link.
2010 CE
#10220
Angel of death: The story of smallpox.
2013 CE
#10219
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
1858 CE
#10218
Histoire du Collegium Medicum Antverpiense.
Text in French. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1983 CE
#10217
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
1947 CE
#10216
The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2003 CE
#10215
Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.
2014 CE
#10214
The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.
Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.
1968 CE
#10213
The Framingham Study: An epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular disease.
"The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on i…
1987 CE
#10212
The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.
1969 CE
#10211
Anatomy of the newborn: An atlas.
Self-illustrated by Crelin, this was the first atlas of human infant anatomy. Crelin followed this with a synopsis of the atlas, Functional anatomy of the newborn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973).
2003 CE
#10210
Homosexuality and civilization.
The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.
1978 CE
#10209
Offenses against one's self. Edited by Louis Crompton.
This is the first publication of Jeremy Bentham's essay on "Paederasty," written about 1785. Bentham suppressed the essay during his lifetime, for fear of public outrage at his views on liberalizing the laws concernin…
1979 CE
#10208
Serial publications containing medical classics. An index to citations in Garrison/Morton (3rd edition, 1970). Compiled by Lee Ash in collaboration with Michael A. Murray. 2nd edition, revised & enlarged.
An index to periodical citations in the 1970 printed edition of this bibliography. It is, however, still useful for references to 19th century, early 20th century, and earlier citations.
1886 CE
#10207
Catalogue of anatomical models, charts and osteological preparations. Auzoux's papier mache anatomical models, Bocksteger models painted in natural colors, human skeletons.
One of the better illustrated American trade catalogues of the period describing available anatomical models, charts, skeletons for use in teaching. Reprinted, along with several other catalogues relating to instrumen…
1919 CE–1922 CE
#10206
American Frohse anatomical charts. Edited, revised and augmented by Max Brödel. With: A key to the Frohse anatomical charts.
10 wall charts, each 42 x 64 inches, comprising a total of 76 colored illustrations life size or larger. Chart 1: Human Skeleton Chart 2: Muscles, front and back Chart 3: Nervous and Circulatory Systems Chart 4: a Sch…
1935 CE
#10205
Atlas of human anatomy, with explanatory text by Jesse Feiring Williams...colored illustrations by Franz Frohse, Max Brödel and Leon Schlossberg.
Reproduced Frohse's anatomical charts in much reduced form with supplementary charts added by Brödel and Schlossberg of Johns Hopkins.
1948 CE
#10204
The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.
This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.
1953 CE–1990 CE
#10203
Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.
"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…
1991 CE
#10202
Max Brödel, The man who put art into medicine
In the late 1890s, Brödel was brought to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. Besides creating a prolific amount of w…
1986 CE
#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 r…
1937 CE–1960 CE
#10200
Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.
Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …
1722 CE
#10199
A journal of the plague year: Being observatrions or memorials, of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before.
Though he may be most widely remembered as a novelist--especially for Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was an English trader, writer of non-fiction as well as fiction, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. This book is an account of…
1937 CE
#10198
The Citadel.
This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…
1925 CE
#10197
Arrowsmith.
"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…
1921 CE
#10196
Le bactériophage: Son rôle dans l'immunité.
D'Hérrelle cited several actual reports of successful treatment of bacterial infections by the injection of bacteriophages in animals and humans. These may be considered early attempts at direct gene transfer i…
1994 CE
#10195
A history of gene transfer and therapy by Jon A. Wolff and Joshua Lederberg in: Wolff, Jon A. (ed.) Gene therapeutics: Methods and applications of direct gene transfer, pp.3-25.
Valuable for its detailed, but highly compressed discussion of the earliest history of these subjects, co-authored by Lederberg, who played a significant role during that period.
2002 CE
#10194
Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".
"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …
2001 CE
#10193
Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.
"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…