North America
3,302 entries published in North America.
1968 CE–1977 CE
#11331
Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.
1968 CE
#11551
Hydrodynamics and hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli. Translated by Thomas Carmody and Helmut Kobus.
Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica, published in 1738, marks the first appearance of many topics central to modern science - from the kinetic theory of gases to the principles of jet propulsion. John Bernoulli&rsq…
1968 CE
#12038
Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.
Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this corresponde…
1969 CE
#1588.6
Ideas of life and matter; studies in the history of general physiology 600 B.C. to A.D. 1900. 2 vols.
1969 CE
#2662.2
Bibliographic control of the literature of oncology 1800-1960.
Includes a short, well-documented history.
1969 CE
#2702.4
The rays: a history of radiology in the United States and Canada.
1969 CE
#4914.5
Transphenoidal microsurgery of the normal and pathological pituitary. In: Clinical neurosurgery: Proceedings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons…1968, 185-217.
Confirmation of Cushing’s idea that a micro-tumor causes Cushing’s syndrome. See No. 3904.
1969 CE
#5019.8
Garrison’s History of neurology. Revised and enlarged with a bibliography of classical, original and standard works in neurology.
A comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the subject, considerably enlarging Garrison’s work previously published in C. L. Dana’s Textbook of nervous diseases, 1925, pp. xv-lvi.
1969 CE
#6808
Illustrated dictionary of eponymic syndromes and diseases and their synonyms.
Second edition as Jablonski’s Dictionary of syndromes and eponymic diseases, Malabar, Fl., Krieger, 1989.
1969 CE–1972 CE
#6841
Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.
First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…
1969 CE
#7487
Exploring the ocean world: A history of oceanography.
1969 CE
#7540
Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
1969 CE
#8415
A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;
Digital facsimile from www.fs.fed.us at this link.
1969 CE
#10041
On death and dying.
"The Kübler-Ross model - otherwise known as the five stages of grief - postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by both terminally ill patients after diagnosis and by loved-ones after a death. The…
1969 CE
#10211
Anatomy of the newborn: An atlas.
Self-illustrated by Crelin, this was the first atlas of human infant anatomy. Crelin followed this with a synopsis of the atlas, Functional anatomy of the newborn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973).
1969 CE
#10611
Computerized mapping of disease and environmental data. A report of the Mapping of Disease (MOD) Project.
This appears to be the earliest monograph on computerized disease mapping. At the time the research was conducted both computer graphics processing and data output in mainframe computers were inadequate for drawing al…
1969 CE
#11322
Demography in early America: Beginnings of the statistical mind 1600-1800.
Covering the period 1600–1800, the author deals with demography in its economic, political, and social aspects. The work is particularly concerned with the development of health-related and scientific aspects of…
1969 CE
#11413
Transexualism and sex reassignment. Edited by Richard Green and John Money.
Probably the first scientific book on transsexuality issued by a university press. "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest …
1969 CE
#11840
The Andromeda strain. A novel.
A techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona.
1969 CE
#11990
Microneurosurgery. Edited by Robert W. Rand.
The first textbooks on microneurosurgery by the pioneering American neurosurgeon, Robert Rand, and the pioneering Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil, both appeared in 1969.
1969 CE
#11992
Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. By M. G. Yasargil. With contributions by R.M.P. Donaghy, U.P. Fisch. J. Hardy, L.L. Malis, S. J. Peerless and M. Zingg and engineers, W.J. Borer, H. Littmann and H. R. Voellmy.
Most of the chapters in this book were written by Yasargil. Chapter one: "A history of microsurgery" by R. M. P. Donaghy includes a bibliography of the earliest published references on this subject. "In 1958 RMP Donag…
1969 CE
#13035
Medicine on stamps.
1969 CE
#13809
Pain and the neurosurgeon.
This was the successor to an earlier work by White and Sweet: Pain. Its Mechanisms and Neurological Control. With the Assistance in the Psychiatric Sections of Chapters IV and X from Stanley Cobb and Frances J. Bonner…
1970 CE
#4483.4
The early orthopaedic surgeons of America.
1970 CE
#1766.608
The history of medical education: An international symposium, edited by C. D. O'Malley.
1970 CE
#3161.2
The history of cardiac surgery.
1970 CE
#3611.4
Hernia repair without disability.
First monograph on ambulatory hernia surgery. Second edition published by Ishiyaku Euroamerica in 1986 was retitled: Hernia repair without disability: A surgical atlas illustrating the anatomy, technique, and physiolo…
1970 CE
#5019.9
The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.
Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…
1970 CE
#5019.10
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
1970 CE
#6467.1
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
1970 CE
#6786.16
The awakening interest in science during the first century of printing 1450-1550. An annotated checklist of first editions viewed from the angle of their subject content. Astronomy. Mathematics. Medicine. Natural science. Physics. Technology.
1970 CE
#6604.2
Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.
Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.
1970 CE
#7010
Discoveries in biological psychiatry.
Proceedings of an international symposium sponsored by the Taylor Manor Hospital in Baltimore in 1970, including first person accounts by those who discovered the original drugs in each of the major categories of psyc…
1970 CE
#7822
Medicine and stamps.
1970 CE–1990 CE
#8192
Dictionary of scientific biography. Vols. 1-16 (1-15, Supplement 1) edited by Charles Coulston Gillespie. Vols. 17-18 (Supplement 2) edited by Frederick L. Holmes.
Over 5,000 biographies, each with detailed bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Medical biographies tend to be of physiologists and other researchers rather than clinicians. Includes an exhaustive index an…
1970 CE
#8380
George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.
"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…
1970 CE
#8496
A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.
1970 CE
#8605
New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.
Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."
1970 CE
#9122
Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.
Revised edition, 1990.
1970 CE
#10059
The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.
Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
1970 CE
#10554
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
1970 CE
#11527
A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.
1970 CE
#11564
Clinical electrocardiography and computers.
"The definitive text of the emerging field of computerized electrocardiography" (W. Bruce Fye).
1970 CE
#12341
Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis.
The history of the coronary artery bypass technique by the inventor of the procedure.
1970 CE
#14216
Hammond's wall atlas of human anatomy.
With pages measuring 731 x 536 mm., this is the largest anatomical atlas ever published with plastic overlays. The covers include metal grommets so that the book could be hung on the wall. The work was undated, but is…
1971 CE
#534.71
Congenital malformations. Notes and comments.
Warkany's contributions span all aspects of teratology, both clinical and experimental. This has been called his magnum opus. It includes 124 chapters, each with detailed bibliography, on a total of 1271 pages.
1971 CE
#4672.5
A history of poliomyelitis.
1971 CE
#4297.2
The history of urology.
A scholarly, detailed work. Part 1 is an adapted translation of E. Desnos: Histoire de l’urologie, in Encyclopédie française d’urologie, eds. A. Pousson & E. Desnos, 1914, 1, 1-294.
1971 CE
#3705.03
A history of dentistry in Canada.
1971 CE
#5019.11
