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3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.

1986 CE

#10095

Who goes first? The story of self-experimentation in medicine.

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…

1986 CE

#10649

Theories of human evolution: A century of debate, 1844-1944.

1986 CE

#10986

The Association of American Physicians, 1886-1986: A century of progress in medical science.

"The Association of American Physicians is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 by seven physicians, including Dr. William Osler and Dr. William Henry Welch, for “the advancement of scientific …

1986 CE

#10987

"For the welfare of mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine.

1986 CE

#11123

The impact of illness on world leaders.

1986 CE

#11323

Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.

"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)

1986 CE

#11635

The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.

Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.

1986 CE

#12356

The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.

Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …

1986 CE

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.

1986 CE

#13784

Of birds and Texas.

Inspired by Audubon's double elephant folios, the first edition was limited to 500 sets and 25 artists' copies, signed by Scott Gentling and John Graves. Folio (28 x 22 inches). 40 chromolithographed plates of birds a…

1986 CE

#14021

The anatomy of the infant head.

1987 CE

#2188.4

The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987 CE

#1588.23

Renal physiology: People and ideas.

A collective work on the history of renal physiology with thematic chapters by the editors and other prominent investigators.

1987 CE

#1588.24

Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.

Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes.

1987 CE

#197.3

Victorian anthropology.

1987 CE

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

1987 CE

#6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

1987 CE

#6596.61

The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.

1987 CE

#6927

Sequencing the human genome. Summary report of the Santa Fe workshop, March 3-4, 1986.

The initial report on the Human Genome Project. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. The report is available at this link.

1987 CE

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what wa…

1987 CE

#7857

The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.

1987 CE

#8021

The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

1987 CE

#8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

1987 CE

#8671

Ross A. McFarland collection in aerospace medicine and human factors engineering. Catalogue of the library.

1987 CE

#8842

Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .

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…

1987 CE

#9212

United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987 CE

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1987 CE

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1987 CE

#10212

The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.

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. …

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987 CE

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987 CE

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987 CE

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1987 CE

#11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link .

1987 CE

#11585

Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century

"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …

1987 CE

#11643

Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.

1987 CE

#12124

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur

1987 CE

#12193

History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.

1987 CE

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1987 CE

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

1987 CE

#13470

Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.

1987 CE

#13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.

1988 CE

#2682.56

Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols

Some of the articles in this work include historical references, useful for the recent history of this rapidly evolving field.

1988 CE

#2581.12

Milestones in immunology: A historical exploration.

Readings from primary sources from 1884 to 1975 with expert introductions, commentaries, and bibliographies.

1988 CE

#3911.2

Endocrinology: people and ideas.

Thematic historical essays written by pioneers in the field, edited by McCann.

1988 CE

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988 CE–2000 CE

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.