United States
3,230 entries published in United States. 270 publication places.
2013 CE
#8760
A perfect vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer rare book collection
2013 CE
#8823
Avicenna's medicine: A new translation of the 11th-century Canon with practical applications for integrative health care.
![AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)](/media/portraits/9572)
A new translation of volume one of Avicenna's Qānūn (Canon), directly from the original Arabic.
2013 CE
#8969
Animals in the ancient world from A to Z.
"Animals were integral to ancient commerce, war, love, literature and art. Inside the city they were found as pets, pests, and parasites. They could be sacred, sacrificed, liminal, workers, or intruders from the wild.…
2013 CE
#9336
Life atomic: A history of radioisotopes in science and medicine.
2013 CE
#9374
Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…
2013 CE
#9405
The history of American homeopathy: From rational medicine to holistic health care.
2013 CE
#9949
US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Office of Medical History Collection.
https://archive.org/details/usnavybumedhistoryoffice&tab=collection "A historical component has existed at the US Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery since May 1907 with the establishment of the Publications Office.…
2013 CE
#9960
Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine. Elizabeth A. Mullen, Managing Editor.
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/ "Free things like air, Vital things like blood, Living things like ideas… Circulate. "For over 175 years the National Library of Medicine’s historical collections have …
2013 CE
#10414
"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link.
2013 CE
#10541
Medicine and the workhouse. Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
The first in depth study of the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period workhouses were a…
2013 CE
#10564
Design for information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations.
Visually splendid; includes frequent comparisons of modern computer representations with historical examples.
2013 CE
#10772
Smallpox: A history.
2013 CE
#10774
Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.
Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of popula…
2013 CE
#10801
Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.
2013 CE
#11582
Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.
2013 CE
#11978
The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.
Available online from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov at this link. "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a lead…
2013 CE
#12040
The duke and the stars: Astrology and politcs in renaissance Milan.
Explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was ofte…
2013 CE
#12102
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
2013 CE
#12141
Cholera in Detroit: A history.
2013 CE
#12194
Mankind beyond earth: The history, science, and future of human space exploration.
2013 CE
#12219
Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.
A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.
2013 CE
#12493
Medicine on screen: Films and essays from NLM.
https://medicineonscreen.nlm.nih.gov/ "Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections. This site showcases unique, rare, and important medical films…
2013 CE
#12682
Catching cancer: The quest for its viral & bacterial causes.
2013 CE
#13284
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Science, governance, and the pursuit of cures
The California Institute for Regenerative medicine was the first state-fund institution that provided stable, in-state funding on a very large scale for biomedical research. "The California Institute for Regenerative …
2013 CE
#13295
Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.
The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.
2013 CE
#13532
The PKU paradox: A short history of a genetic disease.
2013 CE
#13660
Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.
2013 CE
#13674
Ways of regulating drugs in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess.
2013 CE
#13729
The NCBI handbook, 2nd edition.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143764/ "The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a leader in t…
2013 CE
#14353
Adrenaline.
A history and survey.
2014 CE
#7220
Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.
Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…
2014 CE
#7237
Jewish medical resistance in the holocaust. Edited by Michael A. Grodin.
2014 CE
#7624
Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.
Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
2014 CE
#7754
African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.
Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.
2014 CE
#7837
Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
2014 CE
#7845
Global population: History, geopolitics and life on earth.
2014 CE
#7858
The teaching hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the evolution of academic medicine. Edited by Peter V. Tishler, Christine Wenc and Joseph Loscalzo.
2014 CE
#8067
Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.
2014 CE
#8131
Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 4th edition. Edited by Bruce Jennings. 6 vols.
2014 CE
#8189
The emergence of tropical medicine in France.
2014 CE
#8252
Intolerant bodies: A short history of autoimmunity.
2014 CE
#8259
Maimonides On rules regarding the practical part of the medical art. A parallel English-Arabic edition and translation. Translated by Gerrit Bos, edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann
2014 CE
#8296
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
2014 CE
#8464
Medicine and religion: An historical introduction.
2014 CE
#8509
Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.
2014 CE
#8584
Food and environment in early and medieval China.
2014 CE
#9412
Shadow medicine: The placebo in conventional and alternative therapies.
2014 CE
#9912
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
2014 CE
#10087
Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.
" This volume resents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America" (from the introduction). "Kennewick Man is the name general…
2014 CE
#10097
Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.
The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…