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

1988 CE

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1988 CE–1992 CE

#5813.14

The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.

The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, uro…

1988 CE

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

1988 CE

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988 CE

#8066

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

1988 CE

#8640

Critical care nursing: A history

1988 CE

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1988 CE

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1988 CE

#9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

1988 CE

#10015

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.

1988 CE

#10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

1988 CE

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1988 CE

#11197

Sir William Osler: An annotated bibliography with illustrations. Edited by Richard L. Golden and Charles G. Roland.

This was my first effort as a publisher. I was responsible for the illustrations, the captions, and for chosing the appendices - JMN. Richard Golden issued an Addenda to this bibliography in 1997.

1988 CE

#11281

An informal history of W. B. Saunders Company.

1988 CE

#11835

Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire.

1988 CE

#13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…

1989 CE

#436.1

Atlas of human anatomy.

The culmination of the life work of one of the greatest, and most prolific, anatomical illustrators of the 20th century. Includes 514 full-color plates, many of which were created for this atlas. Reproduction of previ…

1989 CE

#2581.14

A history of immunology.

Carefully documented, well-written, analytical history from the ancient world to c. 1975 by an expert researcher in the field. Includes biographical dictionary of notable contributors, list of “seminal discoveri…

1989 CE

#6623.52

Medicine, literature, and eponyms: Encyclopaedia of medical eponyms derived from literary characters.

1989 CE

#6786.33

A catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.

Describes, with paginations, approximately 13,300 monographs, dissertations, broadsides, pamphlets and serials printed between 1601 and 1700.

1989 CE

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

1989 CE

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

1989 CE

#7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

Digital version available at this link.

1989 CE

#7460

An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

1989 CE

#7763

Socioeconomics of surgery.

Probably the first book-form study of these issues.

1989 CE

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1989 CE

#8667

A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.

1989 CE

#8678

Doctors under Hitler.

1989 CE

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1989 CE

#8735

The history of cancer: An annotated bibliography.

1989 CE

#8753

The library of Robert Hooke: The scientific book trade of Restoration England.

Reprints the auction catalogue of Hooke's library: Bibliotheca Hookiana (1703).

1989 CE

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

1989 CE

#8863

Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.

1989 CE

#9107

Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century Valencia.

1989 CE

#9138

In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century.

1989 CE

#9342

Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.

1989 CE

#9433

Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.

1989 CE

#9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

1989 CE

#10079

Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.

1989 CE

#10172

A history of vascular surgery.

Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

1989 CE

#10331

Saddlebags to scanners: The first 100 years of medicine In Washington State. Edited by Nancy M. Rockefellar and James W. Haviland.

1989 CE

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1989 CE

#11027

This idle trade: On doctors who were writers.

1989 CE

#11198

A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.

This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …

1989 CE

#12354

Technology and American medical practice, 1880-1930: An anthology of sources. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

1989 CE

#12355

Efficiency, scientific management, and hospital standardization: An anthology of souyrces. Edited by Edward T. Morman.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

1989 CE

#12607

Periodontology, from its origins up to 1980: A survey.

1989 CE

#12889

Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.

"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…