United States

1981 CE

#3705.3

History of dentistry. Translated by H. M. Koehler.

The author does not consider this a simple translation of his Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde (1973), as in the sections devoted to the 19th and early 20th centuries it has been so substantially revised as to be “a…

1981 CE

#4158.2

The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.

A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.

1981 CE

#5768.4

History of free skin grafting.

Comprehensive work, with hundreds of bibliographical references. No index.

1981 CE

#6610.15

The art of healing. Medicine and science in American art.

1981 CE

#6524.4

Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.

1981 CE

#6742.9

Medical obituaries. American physicians’ biographical notices in selected medical journals before 1907.

With E.N. Feind and G.N. Holloway.

1981 CE

#6786.23

Medical bibliography in an age of discontinuity.

A history of medical bibliography since World War II, focusing on the information requirements of biomedical research; supplements No. 6785.1

1981 CE

#6596.5

American medicine in transition, 1840-1910.

1981 CE

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.

1981 CE

#6982

Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1981 CE

#7760

Radiation and human health.

The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.

1981 CE

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

1981 CE

#8033

Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.

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…

1981 CE

#8437

Lectures on Galen's De sectis. (Arethusa Monographs, VIII). Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.

English translation of this commentary on Galen's De sectis (On sects) given by the iatrosophist and commentator on medical texts, Agnellus, circa 600 CE.

1981 CE

#8659

The American Red Cross: The first century.

Extensively illustrated with photographs.

1981 CE

#8668

Science at the beside: Clinical research in American medicine 1905-1945.

Definitive account of the development of academic medicine and clinical research in America during the period covered.

1981 CE

#8841

Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.

1981 CE

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

1981 CE

#9728

The DNA story: A documentary history of gene cloning.

1981 CE

#10045

Defining death: A report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.

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.

1981 CE

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

1981 CE

#10834

A bibliography on animal rights and related matters.

"... restricted to literature in the English language, with over 3200 entries; it is also confined to the thought and practices of the Western world, from Biblical times to 1980." Concerns much on animal experimentati…

1981 CE

#11269

The house of Appleton: The history of a publishing house and its relationship to the cultural, social, and political events that helped shape the destiny of New York City.

1981 CE

#11681

Dr. Martin Lister: A bibliography by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.

1981 CE

#11740

Research and discovery in medicine: Contributions from Johns Hopkins.

Essays on the history of pioneering clinical research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

1981 CE

#11966

The garden of eden: The botanic garden and the re-creation of paradise.

In the 15th century people still hoped that the original garden of Eden might be rediscovered, but in the 16th and 17th centuries efforts turned to collecting plants and attempting to re-create the wonder of the garde…

1981 CE–1984 CE

#12918

Historia de la odontologia en Cuba. Vol. 1: La colonia (1492-1898) Vol. 2: Intervencion norteamericana (1899-1902) (1906-1909). Periodo republicano 1902-1909, 1909-1940. Vol. 3: Peridodo republicano (1940-1958) Vol. 4: Cuba comunista y en el exilio (1959-1983).

A remarkably comprehensive history of dentistry for a small country.

1981 CE

#13068

The mismeasure of man.

A critique of statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism. "Gould argues that the primary assumption underlying biological determinism is that, “worth can be assigned to indivi…

1981 CE

#13583

Medicine and the Mormons: An introduction to the history of Latter-day Saint health care.

1981 CE

#13902

The family book about sexuality.

1982 CE

#1588.18

A bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800.

An index to bio-bibliographical articles listed alphabetically by scientist. Supplement published, Philadelphia, 1985.

1982 CE

#3979.1

The discovery of insulin.

1982 CE

#3910

A history of endocrinology.

A detailed illustrated history, tracing the development of knowledge from ancient times to the present. Includes biographical notes on the important pioneers in the field and chronological tables. Revised and updated …

1982 CE

#6623.4

Literature and medicine: an annotated bibliography. Revised edition.

Annotated bibliography of medical references in Western literature from the ancient world to time of writing. Emphasis is on summaries of the medical content. Editions cited are usually modern and always in English,

1982 CE

#6596.6

The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.

1982 CE

#258.12

The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.

An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.

1982 CE

#7431

A history of the National Library of Medicine: The nation's treasury of medical knowledge.

Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link; from the Internet Archive at this link. Chapter XX is "Evolution of Computerized Bibliographies."

1982 CE

#8737

Health science books, 1876-1982. 4 vols.

One of the last very large printed works of this type: "Over 132,000 English-language titles classified by some 28,000 Library of Congress subject headings. 'A unique feature ... is that, where possible, equivalent Na…

1982 CE

#9227

Dust off: Army aeromedical evacuation in Vietnam.

Digital text available from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1982 CE

#9365

The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.

1982 CE

#9775

Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.

Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).

1982 CE

#10046

Splicing life: A report on the social and ethical issues of genetic engineering with human beings.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1982 CE

#10254

Space physiology and medicine. Edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and James F. Parker, Jr.

1982 CE

#10403

The history of medicine in Alabama.

1982 CE

#10816

The physician in literature, edited by Norman Cousins.

Sections are devoted to research and serendipity, the role of the physician, quacks and clowns, clinical descriptions in literature, doctors and students, the practice, women and healing, madness, dying, and the patie…

1982 CE

#11037

Origins of clinical chemistry: The evolution of protein analysis.

1982 CE

#11217

Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.

See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.