North America

1973 CE

#14089

Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.

1974 CE

#1588.14

The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.

An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.

1974 CE

#534.41

Foundations of experimental embryology. 2nd ed.

14 classic contributions to embryology (in English translations where appropriate) with historical commentaries.

1974 CE

#5019.16

The roots of psychology. A sourcebook in the history of ideas.

1974 CE

#6495.2

The theoretical foundations of Chinese medicine. Systems of correspondence.

1974 CE

#7009

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

1974 CE

#7777

Creative malady: Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florenece Nightengale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

1974 CE

#8386

Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.

This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…

1974 CE

#8758

The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.

Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…

1974 CE

#8769

Welfare medicine in America: A case study of Medicaid.

The first study of Medicaid. Revised edition, 2003.

1974 CE

#8912

Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.

In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …

1974 CE

#9411

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.

1974 CE

#9487

"A computer-based system for the study and control of drug interactions in hospitalized patients," P. L. Morselli, S. Garattini, and S. N. Cohen, Drug interactions, 363-373.

MEDIPHOR System (Monitoring and Evaluation of Drug Interactions by a Pharmacy-Oriented Reporting System) developed by Cohen, Shortliffe and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School, published as a chapter in t…

1974 CE

#10982

Heritage of excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1914-1947.

1974 CE

#11327

From medical police to social medicine.

1974 CE

#11371

Proceedings of the second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. Edited by Donald R. Laub and Patrick Gandy.

A symposium held at the Stanford University School of Medicine, February 2-4, 1973. It is probable that this is the first separate publication on the medical and surgical aspects of transsexuality -- male to female an…

1974 CE

#11553

Corpuscles: Atlas of red blood cell shapes.

A spectacular oversize atlas reproducing 121 photographs of erythrocytes as visualized with a scanning electron microscope. The first edition was published in English, followed by an edition in French in 1976.

1974 CE

#12343

The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.

Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.

1974 CE

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

1974 CE

#12491

A history of public health in New York City.

1974 CE

#13825

Historical medical classics involving new drugs. Foreward by Charles H. Best.

1975 CE

#461.3

Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translation, documents by L. R. Lind.

Includes English translations of texts by Alessandro Achillini, Alessandro Benedetti, Berengario da Carpi, Gabriele Zerbi, Niccolo Massa, Andrés de Laguna, J. Dryander and G. B. Canano.

1975 CE

#1588.15

The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.

Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.

1975 CE

#1588.16

Translations in respiratory physiology.

English translations of 22 classic papers (some quite lengthy) with introductions by various experts.

1975 CE

#2068.14

An historical account of pharmacology to the 20th century.

1975 CE–1978 CE

#3911.1

Pioneers in neuroendocrinology. 2 vols.,

1975 CE

#5019.17

World history of psychiatry. Edited by J.G. Howells.

Contributions by 42 authors.

1975 CE

#5813.10

The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.

Emphasizing surgery, this is an exceptionally imaginative and exquisitely designed and illustrated history of medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.

1975 CE

#6610.11

The anatomical works of George Stubbs.

Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).

1975 CE

#257.6

Sociobiology: The new synthesis.

Integration of biological and evolutionary theory with the study of social behavior and social organization of animal populations.

1975 CE

#7054

Textbook of Black-related diseases. Edited by Richard A. Williams.

The first textbook on diseases of African Americans written by African American physicians. The book set the tone for recognizing the importance of race and ethnicity in the evalutation, diagnosis, and treatment of pa…

1975 CE

#7393

Phacoemulsification and aspiration: the Kelman technique of cataract removal.

Kelman introduced phacoemulsification in 1967.

1975 CE

#7522

Telemedicine: Explorations in the use of telecommunications in health care.

The first book on telemedicine, with contributions by 18 authors, including Kenneth T. Bird. In the final chapter the editors summarize telemedicine programs then operational in the United States. The book also includ…

1975 CE

#7982

Historical statistics of the United States: Colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial edition. 2 vols.

Chapter B, "Vital statistics and health and medical care." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link; from the U. S. Census Bureau at this link.

1975 CE

#8448

Anglo-Saxon prose.

Includes translations of medical material. Third revised and enlarged edition (Gloucester, England: Choir Press, 2017).

1975 CE

#9135

Blue Cross since 1929: Accountability and the public trust.

1975 CE

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

1975 CE

#9345

Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

1975 CE

#10252

Biomedical results of Apollo.

Full text available from history.nasa.gov at this link.

1975 CE

#10263

Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.

1975 CE

#10808

The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library 1875-1975.

1975 CE

#11649

The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.

1975 CE

#13639

The hospital: A social and architectural history.

"This book is about the hospital ward, also called the nursing unit or inpatient unit. Part 1 gives a history of nursing unit floor plans since roman times. Part 2 reviews contemporary planning problems. Part 3 contai…

1976 CE

#4483.3

Classics of orthopaedics.

Eighty classic papers and sections from books, reprinted from the series of articles in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.

1976 CE

#4483.5

On the shoulders of giants. Notable names in hand surgery.

A history of hand surgery.

1976 CE

#2028.9

Resuscitation: an historical perspective. Catalogue of an exhibit at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists…

1976 CE

#2312.7

Paleopathological diagnosis and interpretation: bone diseases in ancient human populations.

The first text providing diagnostic criteria for evaluating ancient skeletal remains.

1976 CE

#1757.1

Highlights in medicolegal relations. Revised & enlarged ed.

1976 CE

#1766.609

American medical education: the formative years, 1765-1910.

1976 CE

#3705.05

Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico.

First edition in English. First edition, in Spanish, 1971.