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

1992 CE

#11532

A history of medicine.

Third edition with Oliver J. Kim, Baton Rouge, FL: CRC Press, 2018.

1992 CE

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1992 CE

#12216

The evolution of cardiac surgery.

1992 CE

#12329

Clio: The arteries.The development of ideas in arterial surgery.

Reprints several dozen classic papers with commentary.

1992 CE

#13062

A pictorial history of blood practices and transfusion.

1992 CE

#13297

Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.

"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…

1992 CE

#13344

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

1992 CE

#14149

When medicine went mad: Bioethics and the holocaust. Edited by Arthur L. Caplan.

1993 CE

#6902

Orthopedics: A history and iconography.

1993 CE

#6967

Surgery: An illustrated history.

Text written by Ira Rutkow; captions to illustrations written by Jeremy Norman.

1993 CE

#7022

Men of vision: Lives of notable figures in ophthalmology.

1993 CE

#7182

Radiological oncologists: The unfolding of a medical specialty.

1993 CE

#7399

The pupil: Anatomy, physiology and clinical applications. 2 vols.

1993 CE

#8000

Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.

1993 CE

#8179

A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.

1993 CE

#8518

Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…

1993 CE

#8649

Microbes and minie balls: An annotated bibliography of Civil War medicine.

1993 CE

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1993 CE

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1993 CE

#9782

From the mind into the body: The cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms.

1993 CE

#9791

Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. Edited by Arthur W. Hafner. 2 vols.

1993 CE

#9797

The face of mercy: A photographic history of medicine at war.

1993 CE–2009 CE

#10255

Space biology and medicine. 5 vols. Vol. 1: Space and its exploration, edited by J. D. Rummel, V.A. Kotelnikov, and M. V. Ivanov. Vol. 2: Life support and habitability, edited by F. M. Sulzman and A. M. Genin. Vol. 3, Books 1 & 2: Humans in spaceflight, edited by Carolyn S. Leach Huntoon, Vesevolod V. Antipov, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 4: Health, performance, and safety of space crews, edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian, Stanley R. Mohler, Oleg G. Gazenko, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 5: U.S. and Russian cooperation in space biology and medicine, edited by Charles F. Sawin, Svetlana I. Hanson, Nancy G. House, and Igor D. Pestov.

"The five-volume Space Biology and Medicine is a joint work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first volume contributors describe the current status of the…

1993 CE

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1993 CE

#12429

The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology.

1993 CE

#12882

The history of pain. Translated by Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, S. W. Cadden.

1994 CE

#7027

Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.

1994 CE

#7201

Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.

1994 CE

#7239

Jews, medicine and medieval society.

1994 CE

#7421

Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.

1994 CE

#7561

Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.

1994 CE

#7647

I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.

Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.

1994 CE

#7821

Medical history through postage stamps.

1994 CE

#7886

Fighting for life: American military medicine in World War II.

1994 CE

#8462

Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.

1994 CE

#8538

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

1994 CE

#8597

The history of cardiology.

1994 CE

#8685

The growth of gastroenterological knowledge during the 20th century.

1994 CE

#8733

The history of obstetrics and gynecology.

1994 CE

#8989

Evolution of infectious disease.

1994 CE

#8991

Why we get sick: The new science of Darwinian medicine.

1994 CE

#9115

The art of asylum-keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the origins of Ameican psychiatry.

1994 CE

#9187

Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.

The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reprodu…

1994 CE

#9226

Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.

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

1994 CE

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1994 CE

#9409

Medical protestants: The Eclectics in American medicine, 1825-1939.

The first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. "The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medici…

1994 CE

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

1994 CE

#9718

Molecular politics: Developing American and British regulatory policy for genetic engineering, 1972-1982.

1994 CE

#9742

The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.