United States
3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.
1995 CE
#11023
Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.
Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…
1995 CE
#11419
The history of pharmacy: A selected annotated bibliography.
1995 CE
#11795
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
1995 CE
#11900
Biology takes form: Animal morphology and the German universities 1800-1900.
1995 CE
#12022
The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.
"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…
1995 CE
#12549
Samoan herbal medicine. O Lā'au ma Vai Fofō o Samoa.
1995 CE
#13096
The English hospital 1070-1570.
"The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the sick at every level of society—from the gentry and clergy to pilgrims, travelers, beg…
1995 CE
#13292
Changing sex: Transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender.
1996 CE
#1588.4
The human brain and spinal cord: A historical study illustrated by writings from antiquity to the twentieth century. Second edition, revised and enlarged with a new preface by Edwin Clarke.
Massive anthology of primary source material on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Excellent commentaries and bibliographies. First edition, 1968.
1996 CE
#1588.9
An illustrated history of brain function. Imaging the Brain from Antiquity to the Present. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with a new preface by Edwin Clarke and a new chapter surveying advances in imaging technology by Michael J. Aminoff.
First edition, Oxford, 1985.
1996 CE
#6907
Spectacles and other vision aids: A history and guide to collecting.
The most comprehensive history of the development of spectacles and other vision aids in Europe, America, Japan, and China. With over 780 photographs, of which 310 are in color.
1996 CE
#6985
Views of the cell. A pictorial history.
Sixty images (reproduced in color where appropriate) with detailed commentary and bibliographical references, arranged in chronological order, from the first images viewed through the microscope to electron micrographs.
1996 CE
#7002
Encyclopedia of native American healing.
1996 CE
#7012
The Bernard Becker collection in ophthalmology. An annotated catalogue. Third edition, compiled by Lilla Wechsler, Christopher Hoolihan, Mark F. Weimer.
1996 CE
#7015
The history of ophthalmology.
1996 CE
#7040
Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.
1996 CE
#7185
The pioneers of NMR and magnetic resonance in medicine: The story of MRI.
1996 CE
#7520
Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives.
1996 CE
#7779
Respiratory physiology: People and ideas, edited by John B. West.
1996 CE
#7794
Final report of the Advisory Committee on human radiation experiments.
Report of "an intensive inquiry into the history of government-sponsored human radiation experiments and intentional environmental releases of radiation that occurred between 1944 and 1974. We have studied the ethical…
1996 CE
#7856
American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.
1996 CE
#8052
Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.
1996 CE
#8116
Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/index.php From the Wikipedia article on the Internet Archive, accessed 12-2016: "The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal …
1996 CE
#8602
The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.
1996 CE
#8660
The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.
Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…
1996 CE
#8661
Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…
1996 CE
#8688
The shaping of a profession: Physicians in Norway, past and present. Edited by Ivind Larsen and Bent Olav Olsen.
1996 CE
#8766
Fritz Spiegl's sick notes: An alphabetical browsing book of medical derivations, abbreviations mnemonics and slang for amusement and edification of medics, nurses, patients and hypochondriacs.
Both serious and humorous; illustrated with cartoons.
1996 CE
#8926
Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.
"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…
1996 CE
#9162
Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.
"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…
1996 CE
#9290
Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.
1996 CE
#9299
Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.
1996 CE
#9327
The origin and evolution of birds.
On the evolution of birds and avian flight. Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the hypothesis, accepted by many paleontologists, that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are the…
1996 CE
#9426
Photographic atlas of Civil War injuries. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Otis Historical Archives.
1996 CE
#9427
Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.
1996 CE
#9428
Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.
1996 CE
#9435
Medicine, society and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.
1996 CE
#9605
The wonderful art of the eye: A critical edition of the Middle English translation of his De probatissima arte oculorum, edited by L. M. Eldredge.
1996 CE
#9757
Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.
Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…
1996 CE
#9787
Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.
1996 CE
#9800
Veterinary medicine: An illustrated history.
1996 CE
#10058
A midwife through the dying process: Stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life.
1996 CE
#10174
Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.
1996 CE
#10288
Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
1996 CE
#10435
The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
1996 CE
#10646
Life's splendid drama: Evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life's ancestry, 1860-1940.
1996 CE
#11110
Making PCR: A story of biotechnology.
1996 CE
#11852
Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.
The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…
1996 CE
#11898
Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.
1996 CE
#12106