United States
3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.
2008 CE
#7925
Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.
2008 CE
#7929
This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
2008 CE
#7943
The administration of sickness: Medicine and ethics in nineteenth century Algeria.
2008 CE
#8080
National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.
Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…
2008 CE
#8305
Mania: A short history of bipolar disorder.
2008 CE
#8537
Galen and the rhetoric of healing.
2008 CE
#8641
Making room in the clinic: Nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care.
2008 CE
#8771
Pioneers of cardiac surgery.
Oral histories in narrative form without interposed questions of more than three dozen first and second generation cardiac surgeons.
2008 CE
#8908
From skulls to brains: 2500 years of neurosurgical progress.
An annotated exhibition catalogue of rare books on the history of neurological surgery from Eugene Flamm's library.
2008 CE
#9004
Answering the call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. edited by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
2008 CE
#9035
Cocaine: Global drug.
Traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Conne…
2008 CE
#9117
A history of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
2008 CE
#9231
War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A series of cases, 2003-2007. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz.
Exceptionally well illustrated with color photographs.
2008 CE–2011 CE
#9537
Public health: The development of a discipline. Edited by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld. 2 vols.
Collections of readings edited and introduced. Vol. 1: From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era. Vol. 2: Twentieth century challenges.
2008 CE
#9653
Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.
2008 CE
#9852
Literature and medicine, future tense: Making it graphic.
A relatively early discussion of the principles of graphic medicine. Available from obermann.uiowa.edu at this link.
2008 CE
#9878
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
2008 CE
#10134
A history of microsurgery.
2008 CE
#10224
The measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009.
" the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state an…
2008 CE
#10246
Navy medicine in Vietnam: Oral histories from Dien Bein Phu to the fall of Saigon.
2008 CE
#10509
Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
2008 CE
#10798
Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
2008 CE
#10974
Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.
"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…
2008 CE
#12097
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
2008 CE
#12214
Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.
2008 CE
#12555
At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.
",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…
2008 CE
#13166
The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.
An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.
2008 CE
#13390
The age of anxiety: A history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers.
2008 CE
#13515
Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.
2009 CE
#7149
The evolution of Chinese medicine: Song dynasty 960-1200.
2009 CE
#7205
Picturing medical progress from Pasteur to polio: A history of mass media images and popular attitudes in America.
2009 CE
#7222
The Cambridge world history of medical ethics. Edited by Robert B. Baker and Lawrence B. McCullough.
2009 CE
#7523
History of telemedicine: Evolution, context, and transformation.
2009 CE
#7548
Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.
2009 CE
#7567
Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.
2009 CE
#7650
Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.
Text and captions in English and German.
2009 CE
#7887
The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941.
2009 CE
#8144
The ambulance: A history.
2009 CE
#8256
Maimonides On poisons and the protection against lethal drugs. A parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, along with critical editions of Hebrew and Latin; medieval translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
2009 CE
#8317
Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.
2009 CE
#8463
Medicine & health care in early Christianity.
2009 CE
#8617
Health and medicine on display: International expositions in the United States, 1876-1904.
2009 CE
#8645
Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.
2009 CE
#8851
World Digital Library. With the support of UNESCO (the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and the U.S. Library of Congress.
https://www.wdl.org/en/ "The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educat…
2009 CE
#9040
Physiologus: A medieval book of nature lore. Translated by Michael J. Curley.
First published 1979, with a very informative introduction and notes. The paperback edition (2009) contains an extensive supplementary note discussing scholarship relating to Physiologus since 1979.
2009 CE
#9120
Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne. With an essay by Oliver Sacks.
2009 CE
#9225
A history of dentistry in the U.S. Army to World War II.
The development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the …
2009 CE
#9332
The anatomy murders: Being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes.
2009 CE
#9391
War and Disease: Biomedical research on malaria in the twentieth century.
2009 CE
#9697
Burke & Hare.
This account of the resurrection men, Burke and Hare, is the first comic book version of a history of medicine story of which I am aware.