United States

1994 CE

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

1994 CE

#10038

How we die: Reflections on life's final chapter.

1994 CE

#10051

Nature doctors: Pioneers in naturopathic medicine.

1994 CE

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

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.

1994 CE

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1994 CE

#10849

The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).

Revised edition, 1995.

1994 CE

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1994 CE

#11177

The embryonic human brain: An atlas of developmental stages.

"The first work devoted to the staged, embryonic human brain."

1994 CE

#11262

Order out of chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's coming of age.

1994 CE

#11285

Epilogue: The death of an imprint: A supplement to two hundred years of publishing.

Retrospective on Lea & Febiger after its closure.

1994 CE

#11655

The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). Edited by David M. Reifler.

A history of the first twenty-five years of the ASOPRS, plus a history of ophthalmic plastic surgery from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 1994.

1994 CE

#11785

Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

1994 CE

#11889

Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.

Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…

1994 CE

#12375

Heart surgery classics. Edited by Larry W. Stephenson and Renato Ruggiero.

Reprints of classics with commentaries by Henry Bahnson, Earl Bakken, Denton Cooley, James Cox, Michael DeBakey, Alden Harken, Dudley Johnson, Adrian Kantrowitz, Willem Kolff, C. Walton Lillehei, and Albert Starr. Sev…

1995 CE

#6957

One hundred books famous in medicine. Edited by Haskell F. Norman and Hope Mayo.

Conceived, organized and with an introduction by Haskell Norman, who borrowed the most interesting copies (presentation, association, dedication, author's copies) of each work for the exhibition. Catalogue edited by H…

1995 CE

#7014

Source book of ophthalmology.

An annotated bibliography of significant books in the history of ophthalmology, with brief biographical notes regarding authors.

1995 CE

#7018

Ethnobotany: Evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Schultes and Siri Sylvia von Reis.

1995 CE

#7020

Profiles in gerontology: A biographical dictionary

1995 CE

#7029

The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.

1995 CE

#7107

Witnessing insanity. Madness and mad-doctors in the English court.

1995 CE

#7420

The Army Medical Department 1865-1917.

1995 CE

#7499

Diseases in wax: A history of the medical moulage.

1995 CE

#7714

The archaeology of disease.

1995 CE

#7742

Jews and medicine: Religion, culture, science, edited by Natalia Berger. Based on the exhibit at Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, [Tel Aviv, Israel].

Essays, extensively illustrated, sometimes with rarely seen images, tracing the most significant points of encounter between the history of the Jewish people and the history of medicine, beginning with the Bible and e…

1995 CE

#7787

Effects of atomic radiation: A half-century of studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1995 CE

#7795

Human radiation experiments: The Department of Energy roadmap to the story and the records.

1995 CE

#7888

A history of medicine in the early U.S. Navy.

1995 CE

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1995 CE

#8089

Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.

1995 CE

#8103

Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.

1995 CE

#8129

Medical ethics in the Renaissance.

The first comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance.

1995 CE

#8177

A history of medical informatics in the United States, 1950-1990.

Second edition, edited by Morris F. Collen and Marion J. Ball, and published the year after Collen's death at the age of 100, retitled The history of medical informatics in the United States (New York: Springer, 2015).

1995 CE

#8271

Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: Selections from classical Jewish sources.

1995 CE

#8505

Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.

1995 CE

#8611

Becoming a physician: Medical education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945.

1995 CE

#8623

The history of gastroenterology.

1995 CE

#8679

Ministry and meaning: A religious history of Catholic health care in the United States.

1995 CE

#8714

Quantification and the quest for medical certainty.

1995 CE

#8715

Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.

1995 CE

#9630

Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.

1995 CE

#9681

Picturing health and illness: Images of identity and difference.

1995 CE

#9767

The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.

1995 CE

#9796

Chiropractic: An illustrated history.

1995 CE

#10162

The medical mandarins: The French Academy of Medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

1995 CE

#10325

Tincture of time: The story of 150 years of medicine in Atlanta, 1845-1994.

1995 CE

#10766

The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in America: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985.

1995 CE

#10967

Technology in the hospital: Transforming patient care in the early twentieth century.

1995 CE

#10979

An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness.

An autobiographical study of bipolar disorder by a distinguished American clinical psychologist who personally suffers from this disorder.

1995 CE

#11019

The private science of Louis Pasteur.

"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…