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

2006 CE

#12291

Curing the colonizers: Hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas.

Translated into French by the author as À la cure, les coloniaux ! Thermalisme, climatisme et colonisation française, 1830-1962. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

2006 CE

#12551

Samoan medical belief and practice.

"...the first comprehensive study of Samoan medicine. Cluny and La‘avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofo, in Western …

2006 CE

#14048

An inconvenient truth. The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.

A politician, Gore was one of the first to draw popular attention to climate change. He supplemented the best-selling book with a film and DVD with the same title. Ten years later, recognizing that in spite of its wid…

2007 CE

#6977

Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.

Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…

2007 CE

#7056

Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.

2007 CE

#7059

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

2007 CE

#7434

A life decoded. My genome: My life.

2007 CE

#7506

Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,

2007 CE

#7534

Impotence: A cultural history.

2007 CE

#7646

Charles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America

The first biography of Jackson, the physician and geologist who discoverered of the anesthetic effects of ether, and also played an important role in the discovery of the American electro-magnetic telegraph. Forms a s…

2007 CE

#7753

African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.

2007 CE

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

2007 CE

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2007 CE

#7881

Culturing life: How cells became technologies.

A history of tissue culture.

2007 CE

#7954

The emergence of genetic rationality: Space, time & information in American biological science, 1870-1920.

2007 CE

#7972

Experimental design for biologists.

Explains how to establish the framework for an experimental project, how to set up all of the components of an experimental system, design experiments within that system, determine and use the correct set of controls,…

2007 CE

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

2007 CE

#8077

Origins of American health insurance: A history of industrial sickness funds.

2007 CE

#8101

Silent victories: The history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America. Edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.

2007 CE

#8413

Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.

The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …

2007 CE

#8696

Mutter Museum: Historic medical photographs. Edited by Laura Lindgren.

2007 CE

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

2007 CE

#9003

Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America.

"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses,…

2007 CE

#9132

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…

2007 CE

#9230

The first miracle drugs: How the sulfa drugs transformed medicine.

"In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines…

2007 CE

#9350

Medieval Islamic medicine.

2007 CE

#9425

The legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of patient care. Edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer.

"... features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurolog…

2007 CE

#9447

Dictionary of Medical Biography. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Helen Bynum. 5 vols.

2007 CE

#9620

Allenby's military medicine: Life and death in World War I Palestine.

2007 CE

#9759

Government and public health in America.

"How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility f…

2007 CE

#9777

Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.

Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.

2007 CE

#9856

Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land.

2007 CE

#9976

African American folk healing.

2007 CE

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

2007 CE

#10466

Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ Events & Talks - Library- Books, Articles, Lectures- Press- Exhibitions- Photography- Bookstore The most comprehensive online reference to these topics curated in a unique manner. In…

2007 CE

#11030

Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.

A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.

2007 CE

#11391

Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.

"A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong…

2007 CE

#11464

The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.

2007 CE

#11465

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: The crown, urban elites and the poor.

2007 CE

#11575

Differential diagnoses: A comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France.

2007 CE

#12159

Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.

2007 CE

#12351

Evolution and creationism: A documentary and reference guide.

2007 CE

#12584

The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Smith "was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After his return to the United States, he became the first African America…

2007 CE

#13219

Promise on Parnassus: The first century of the UCSF School of Nursing.

History of the School of Nursing at the University of California San Franicsco.

2007 CE

#13290

The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.

2007 CE

#14128

Beyond the White House, waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.

President Carter devoted half of this book to Guinea worm disease, nature of the illness, its epidemiology, its cause and the current importance from a public health and human suffering standpoint. Carter's leadership…

2008 CE

#7298

Worlds before Adam: The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform.

2008 CE

#7360

The mechanical mind in history. Edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler.

2008 CE

#7426

On speed: The many lives of amphetamine.

2008 CE

#7569

The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.