United States
3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.
1996 CE
#12316
Opera, desire, disease, death.
"The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with f…
1996 CE
#12748
The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.
"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …
1996 CE–2018 CE
#12939
The history of neuroscience in autobiography, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire. 10 vols.
"The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography is a collection of autobiographical chapters, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire, that details the lives and discoveries of eminent senior neuroscientists. "During…
1996 CE
#13829
Notable women in the life sciences: A biographical dictionary.
1996 CE
#14050
The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.
1997 CE
#6826
A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts. Samuel H. Greenblat, Editor. T. Forscht Dagi and Mel H. Epstein, Constributing Editors.
The most comprehensive history of the subject.
1997 CE
#6906
American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.
1997 CE
#6966
American surgery: An illustrated history.
1997 CE
#6978
History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.
1997 CE
#7069
The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.
1997 CE
#7166
Women in the biological sciences. A biobibliographic sourcebook.
1997 CE
#7181
Naked to the bone. Medical imaging in the twentieth century.
1997 CE
#7219
The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine empire.
When first published in 1985 this was the first monograph devoted solely to the history of Byzantine hospitals. Reissued with an extensive new introduction by the author in 1997.
1997 CE
#7461
An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.
1997 CE
#7463
The eye of the artist.
1997 CE
#7722
Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.
A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.
1997 CE
#8014
The history of the United States Army Medical Service Corps.
From the American revolution to 1994.
1997 CE
#8051
The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.
1997 CE
#8264
The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.
1997 CE
#8544
Iroquois medical botany.
"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…
1997 CE
#8629
The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.
1997 CE
#8749
Moving questions: A history of membrane transport and bioenergetics.
"This book describes half a century of progress in two mainstream areas of biological research: membrane transport, initially a focus of physiologists, and oxidative phosphorylation, initially a focus of biochemists. …
1997 CE
#9137
Law and the American health care system.
Second revised edition, 2012, with extensive discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
1997 CE
#9385
A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
1997 CE
#9407
Kindly medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911.
"Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines …
1997 CE
#9463
The powerful placebo: From ancient priest to modern physician.
1997 CE
#9596
California Digital Library.
http://www.cdlib.org "The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being pu…
1997 CE
#9910
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…
1997 CE
#9936
Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.
By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.
1997 CE
#10030
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
1997 CE
#10247
Battle station sick bay: Navy medicine in World War II.
1997 CE
#10361
Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.
1997 CE
#12070
The changing face of death. Historical accounts of death and disposal.
1997 CE
#12128
U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.
Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…
1997 CE
#12326
A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.
1997 CE
#12360
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
1997 CE
#13054
Five centuries of veterinary medicine: A short-title catalog of the Washington State University Veterinary History Collection.
Checklist of over 1800 books, journals, manuscripts, illustrations, and other rare documents.
1998 CE
#7269
Ancestral images: The iconography of human origins.
1998 CE
#7613
Medicine, mortality and the book trade.
Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …
1998 CE
#7642
The complete visible human: The complete high-resolution male and female anatomical datasets from the Visible Human Project.
The first anatomically exact and complete, three-dimensional, computer-generated reconstruction of actual human bodies. Includes 2 CD-ROMs. See https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html.
1998 CE
#7717
Historical perspectives on climate change.
1998 CE
#7780
High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.
1998 CE
#7869
Native American ethnobotany.
Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.
1998 CE
#7974
MEDLINE for health professionals; How to search PubMed on the internet.
1998 CE
#8018
The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.
1998 CE
#8032
Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples
Originally published in 1969.
1998 CE
#8114
MedlinePlus.
https://medlineplus.gov/ "MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical librar…
1998 CE
#8171
U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Projects.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalprojects.html Also: Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the World's Largest Biomedical Library: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/
1998 CE
#8205
Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
1998 CE
#8265