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

2018 CE

#10425

Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

2018 CE

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2018 CE

#10525

The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.

"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…

2018 CE

#10594

Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It also summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. "A …

2018 CE

#10622

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

2018 CE

#10626

The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,

Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…

2018 CE

#10698

Between hope and fear: A history of vaccines and human immunity.

Both a history of vaccines and immunology and of the anti-vaccination movement.

2018 CE

#10755

To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.

2018 CE

#10756

PTSD: A short history.

2018 CE

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2018 CE

#11113

William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.

This is probably the most beautiful book published on the wide range of William Hunter's collecting that forms the Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Collection in Glasgow University Library.

2018 CE

#11125

The madness of fear: A history of catatonia.

2018 CE

#11621

The mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of medicine.

Fascinating stories well told, and frequently with a great sense of humor!

2018 CE

#11664

Caring for equality: A history of African American health and healthcare.

2018 CE

#12425

Science and medicine in Imperial Russia. Second edition.

Concerns the development of medicine, chemistry and biology in Russia before the revolution.

2018 CE

#12567

Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.

A report from the British Defence Medical Services.

2018 CE

#12636

Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.

Both an historical and a scientific study.

2018 CE

#12681

Poison, medicine, and disease in late medieval and early modern Europe.

"...Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to l…

2018 CE

#12841

Health education films in the twentieth century. Edited by Christian Bonah, David Cantor, Anja Laukötter.

2018 CE

#12878

W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.

2018 CE

#13049

Telemedicine and health technologies: A guide for mental health professionals.

"...Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a practical, comprehensive, and evidence-based guide to patient-centered clinical care delivered in whole or in part by technologi…

2018 CE

#13579

Images in Mississippi medicine: A photographic history of medicine in Mississippi

2018 CE

#14032

Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.

2019 CE

#11056

A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.

A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…

2019 CE

#11073

The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.

A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."

2019 CE

#11528

Johann Reinhold Forster and the making of natural history on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775

2019 CE

#11611

Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world.

2019 CE

#11644

Mind fixers: Psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness.

2019 CE

#11804

The professional library of James W. Porter on corals and coral reefs.

2019 CE

#12094

Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.

"Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Nat…

2019 CE

#12169

Epidemics and society from the Black Death to the present.

2019 CE

#12562

Explorations in Baltic medical history, 1850-2015. Edited by Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand.

"This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a disci…

2019 CE

#12844

The African roots of marijuana.

"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial s…

2019 CE

#13010

Perilous chastity: Women and illness in Pre-Enlightenment art and medicine.

"Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless&mdash…

2019 CE

#13093

Roman domestic medical practice in central Italy from the Middle Republic to the Early Empire.

2019 CE

#13293

Anti/Vax: Reframing the vaccination controversy.

2019 CE

#13689

Rotten bodies: Class and contagion in eighteenth-century Britain.

2019 CE

#13797

Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.

2020 CE

#11485

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

2020 CE

#12013

Continual raving: A history of meningitis and the people who conquered it.

2020 CE

#12042

Sir William Osler: An encyclopedia. Edited by Charles S. Bryan.

The definitive reference on Sir William Osler, his life, his times, his friends, and his influence. Osler was voted "the most influential physician in history" in a 2016 survey of North American doctors, but his inter…

2020 CE

#12156

Archiving web content on the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19).

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/03/26/archiving-web-content-on-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19/ "The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbr…

2020 CE

#12190

Covid-19 changed how the world does science, together. Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world's researchers focused so urgently on a single topic. Nearly all other research has ground to a halt.

April 1, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/europe/coronavirus-science-research-cooperation.html "Using flag-draped memes and military terminology, the Trump administration and its Chinese counterparts hav…

2020 CE

#12627

Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.

2020 CE

#12639

The black box of biology: A history of the molecular revolution. Translated by Matthew Cobb.

"The Black Box of Biology shows that what led to the incredible transformation of biology was not a simple accumulation of new results, but the molecularization of a large part of biology. In fact, Morange argues, the…

2020 CE

#13039

Clean: The new science of skin.

"A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin…

2020 CE

#13092

Forbidden knowledge: Medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy.

2020 CE

#13124

Diseases in the district of Maine 1772-1820. The unpublished work of Jeremiah Barker, a rural physician in New England, by Richard J. Kahn.

2020 CE

#13282

A vision of hope: The 200-year history of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary 1820-2020.

2020 CE

#13466

Paleoclimatology: From snowball earth to the anthropocene.