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

1998 CE

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

1998 CE

#8458

Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing. Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.

1998 CE

#8486

Greek medicine from the heroic to the Hellenistic age: A sourcebook.

1998 CE

#8560

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1998 CE

#8648

Gangrene and glory: Medical care during the American Civil War.

1998 CE

#8785

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

1998 CE

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1998 CE

#9215

U. S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History: Books and Documents.

http://history.amedd.army.mil/books.html "The US Army Medical Department has an extensive and illustrious history. Brief historical highlights include maintaining one of the oldest regiments within the Army, providing…

1998 CE

#9642

"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

1998 CE

#9650

Contagion and confinement: Controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.

1998 CE

#9682

Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.

1998 CE

#9717

Profiles in science: U. S. National Library of Medicine.

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanc…

1998 CE

#9774

The genesis of surgical anesthesia.

Treats the history of surgical anesthesia from the earliest time through the work of John Snow (1813-1858).

1998 CE

#9843

Library of Congress Digital Collections.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/ In February 2018 the Library of Congress offered 316 different digital collections: Subject American History98 Performing Arts77 Government, Law & Politics72 World Cultures & History65…

1998 CE

#10099

The Huxley File. Created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce.

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/ "Those merely interested in Huxley and scholars engaged in research on him, on Darwinism, on Victorian culture, on the history of science, and on topics such as those noted will find …

1998 CE

#10182

The land of prehistory: A critical history of American anthropology.

1998 CE

#10332

An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.

"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

1998 CE

#10806

Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.

1998 CE

#11164

To improve human health. A history of the Institute of Medicine.

Digital edition available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230742/ .

1998 CE

#11591

Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.

1998 CE

#11743

A brief history of cocaine.

Second edition, 2006.

1998 CE

#11892

The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications.

Describes the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, preparation, and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants and fungi. The encyclopedia also offers information on ritual and medicinal use. Also includes 168…

1998 CE

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1998 CE

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

1998 CE

#12729

Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.

One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.

1998 CE

#13294

Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.

1998 CE

#13325

The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.

1998 CE

#13599

The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec

"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999 CE

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1999 CE

#7371

Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.

1999 CE

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

1999 CE

#7838

Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.

1999 CE

#7973

MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching.

Second edition, 2006.

1999 CE

#8069

An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.

1999 CE

#8141

The American medical ethics revolution: How the AMA's code of ethics has transformed physicians' relationships to patients, professionals, and society.

1999 CE

#8337

Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.

1999 CE

#8563

Albertus Magnus, On animals: A medieval summa zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols.

1999 CE

#8608

Cardiology: The evolution of the science and the art. Second edition.

1999 CE

#8625

Nurturing children: A history of pediatrics

1999 CE

#8694

The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.

1999 CE

#8698

Time to heal: American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care.

1999 CE

#8721

Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine.

1999 CE

#8752

Four centuries of clinical chemistry.

The first in-depth study of the development of this field that had such a profound impact on patient care beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.

1999 CE

#8767

Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920.

1999 CE

#9113

The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.

1999 CE

#9193

The birth of the cell.

1999 CE

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.