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

2003 CE

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Bullets and bacilli: The Spanish-American War and military medicine.

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Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.

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From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.

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#8218

Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.

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#8485

Pharmaceutical achievers: The human face of Pharmaceutical research.

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Medical botany: Plants affecting human health. 2nd ed.

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#8643

Self-experimenters: Sources for study.

Grouped by category of experiment, and then by the name of the self-experimenter, this is a guide to their biographies and the articles that reported their results.

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Profiles in cardiology: A collection of profiles featuring individuals who have made significant contributions to the study of cardiovascular disease.

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The dawn of neurosurgery. Rare books from the collection of Eugene S. Flamm.

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Right living: An Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene. Edited by Charles Rosenberg.

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Military preventive medicine mobilization and deployment. Vol. 1. Edited by Patrick W. Kelley

SECTION 1: A Historic Perspective on the Principles of Military Preventive Medicine 1 1. Preventive Medicine and Command Authority—Leviticus to Schwarzkopf 3 2. The Historical Impact of Preventive Medicine in Wa…

2003 CE

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Folk medicine in southern Appalachia.

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Medical herbalism: The science and practice of herbal medicine.

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Native American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.

http://naeb.brit.org/ "As noted, In the spring of 2003, substantial revisions of the database were made, revising its looks, and adding links to the US Department of Agriculture PLANTS database. This means that comple…

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A history of nonprescription production regulation.

History of U.S. regulation of patent medicines,cosmetics, pure food and drugs, homeopathy, dietary supplements, etc.

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A history of online information services 1963-1976.

Pages 197-223 concern "Modern bibliographic control of medical literature." Development of MEDLARS, MEDLARS II, MEDLINE.

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#9885

The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.

"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…

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#9898

Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.

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Dental practice in Europe at the end of the 18th century. Edited by Christine Hillam. (Clio Medica 72).

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The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

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#10143

Transplant: From myth to reality.

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A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.

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Homosexuality and civilization.

The history of homosexuality in Europe and parts of Asia from Homer to the 18th century.

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Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

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#10233

Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis.

This work, which was heralded as a masterwork of scholarship when published, originally consisted of 689pp. In 2006 the publishers issued "an abridgment" to make the work accessible to a "general readership." The abri…

2003 CE

#10244

ArtandMedicine.com.

http://www.artandmedicine.com/Index.html A highly personal but in all aspects extraordinary website/blog on the history of medical photography in the form of what Rowley calls his Cabinet Journal.

2003 CE

#10709

Conjoined twins: An historical, biological and ethical issues encyclopedia.

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Chekhov's doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Edited by Jack Coulehan.

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other" is a well-known quote by Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and writer. Founder of both the modern s…

2003 CE

#11118

History of periodontology.

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#11593

The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.

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Cattle plague: A history.

"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…

2003 CE

#12195

Human survival: Life and death in extreme environments.

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Transplant: From myth to reality.

"... organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation resear…

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Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

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The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.

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Against the spirit of system: The French impulse in nineteenth-century American medicine.

"... the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medi…

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#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

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Saving lives, training caregivers, making discoveries: A centennial history of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

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Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world

Traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.

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The D.O.s: Osteopathic medicine in America. 2nd ed.

2004 CE

#7109

The book of skin.

2004 CE

#7312

British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter.

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#7380

The living universe: NASA and the development of astrobiology.

2004 CE

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The genome war: How Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world.

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Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist

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Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent.

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Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.

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Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.

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Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.

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2004 CE

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How sex changed: A history of transsexuality in the United States.