United States

2010 CE

#9953

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library

https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…

2010 CE

#10225

The measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping risks and resilience.

"This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of the well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state …

2010 CE

#10342

Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.

"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…

2010 CE

#10973

Educating physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency.

"The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in p…

2010 CE

#11662

Osler's bedside libraries: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Edited by Michael A. LaCombe and David J. Elpern.

2010 CE

#11926

Holistic healing in Byzantium. Edited by John T. Chirban.

2010 CE

#12101

Medicine in the Old West: A history, 1850–1900.

2010 CE

#12377

Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.

"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…

2010 CE

#13377

Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement

2010 CE

#13459

Medicine after the Holocaust: From the master race to the human genome and beyond. Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld.

"Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a führer over God, and personal …

2010 CE

#13735

The double helix and the law of evidence.

"... Kaye weaves together molecular biology, population genetics, the legal rules of evidence, and theories of statistical reasoning as he describes the struggles between prosecutors and defense counsel over the admis…

2011 CE

#214.9

Missing links: In search of human origins.

An entertaining and superbly illustrated, but carefully documented account of the major fossil finds from Neanderthal to Ardipithecus ramidus.

2011 CE

#6843

The shocking history of electric fishes: From ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology.

The first comprehensive history of this subject.

2011 CE

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

2011 CE

#7132

A guide to obesity and the metabolic syndrome: Origins and treatment.

2011 CE

#7666

Morbid curiosities: Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain.

2011 CE

#7667

Chevalier John Taylor, England's early oculist: Pretender or pioneer?

The unusually colorful career of the pioneer oculist, notorious for his flamboyant behavior, self-promotion, proflific writings, and for blinding both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. The authors disc…

2011 CE

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.

2011 CE

#7823

Famous personalities honored on stamps: Links to medicine.

2011 CE

#7940

The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.

2011 CE

#8017

Attack on the Pentagon: The medical response to 9/11.

2011 CE

#8340

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An annotated translation of Huang Di's inner classic- Basic questions. 2 vols.

2011 CE

#8408

History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.

Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link.

2011 CE

#8615

Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.

2011 CE

#8673

Genentech: The beginnings of biotech.

2011 CE

#8686

Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.

Well-written and beautifully illustrated in color. Unfortunately the bibliography contains many errors.

2011 CE

#8709

An anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.

2011 CE

#8906

Printing and the brain of man.

Annotated catalogue of an exhibition of rare books in the history of neuroanatomy and neurosurgery from Eugene Flamm's library, including many great classics.

2011 CE

#9314

Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic. A critical edition, with translation and commentary of Hunayn ibn Ishāq, Kitāb ayyām al-buhrān, by Glen M. Cooper.

First printed edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), a founding text of astrological medicine, together with the first translation of the text into a modern …

2011 CE

#9488

Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.

2011 CE

#9611

Galen: Method of medicine. Books 1-4, Books 5-9, Books 10-14. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G. H. R. Horsley. 3 vols.

2011 CE

#9708

Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.

2011 CE

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

2011 CE

#10022

Mixed medicines: Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia.

2011 CE

#10126

Aves: A survey of the literature of neotropical ornithology.

Written and beautifully designed and produced by Tom Taylor in an edition limited to 500 copies. Includes many fine color plates.

2011 CE

#10142

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

2011 CE

#10328

Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.

2011 CE

#10461

Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.

2011 CE

#10493

Divine machines: Leibniz and the sciences of life.

"Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleonto…

2011 CE

#10562

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.

This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…

2011 CE

#10563

Visual complexity: Mapping patterns of information.

An exceptionally beautiful graphic work with many historical examples showing how data in many fields, including medicine and biology, can be mapped and visualized.

2011 CE

#10972

The bleeding disease: Hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress.

2011 CE

#12240

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

2011 CE

#13319

The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on healthcare. Edited by Catherine D. Prescott and Dame Julia Polak.

2011 CE

#13894

A first rate madness: Uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness.

2011 CE

#14148

Remedy and reaction: The peculiar American struggle over health care reform.

"Winner of the 2011 American Publishers Awards and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Government and Politics category, as given by the Association of American Publishers. Read an interview with Paul Starr on the Yal…

2012 CE

#6842

Headache: Through the centuries.

The most comprehensive history to date.

2012 CE

#7692

Mapping the nation: History and cartography in nineteenth-century America.

Includes medical, statistical cartography.

2012 CE

#7711

The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. Edited by Jane Buikstra & Charlotte Roberts.

2012 CE

#7751

Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.

A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne …