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3,302 entries published in North America.

1976 CE–1980 CE

#5766.5

Cleft craft: The evolution of its surgery. 3 vols.

An encyclopedic monograph on cleft palate surgery, exceptionally well written, illustrated, and produced, incorporating an historical approach.

1976 CE

#6550.7

The great instauration. Science, medicine and reform, 1626-1660.

1976 CE

#6786.20

A history of scientific and technical periodicals. The origins and development of the scientific and technical press, 1665-1790. 2nd ed.

“Includes much of medical interest and contains several tables indicating comparative numbers of periodicals on various subjects at different dates” (L.T.Morton).

1976 CE

#6596.3

Two centuries of American medicine 1776-1976.

A valuable supplement to Packard (No. 6590), besides covering the main events in American medicine.

1976 CE

#7072

The face of madness. Hugh W. Diamond and the origin of psychiatric photography. Edited by Sander L. Gilman.

Papers by Diamond, including their illustrations, edited with an extensive annotated introduction.

1976 CE

#7486

The wild boy of Aveyron.

1976 CE

#7519

The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.

1976 CE

#8055

The naturalist in Britain: A social history.

1976 CE

#8236

Galen on the affected parts. Translated by Rudolph E. Siegel.

1976 CE

#8457

Tacuinum sanitatis: The medieval health handbook.

1976 CE

#8497

Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.

1976 CE

#8658

Physician signers of the Declaration of Independence.

1976 CE

#8778

A catalogue of the rare book collection in the Northwestern University Dental School Library. Edited by Wilma Troxel.

1976 CE–1990 CE

#9616

Theophrastus: De causis plantarum Books 1-2, Books 3-4, Books 5-6. Edited and translated by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. 3 vols.

1976 CE

#9689

Plagues and peoples.

1976 CE

#9731

Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.

1976 CE

#10100

The Watermark. The quarterly publication of Librarians, Archivists and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS).

http://iis-exhibits.library.ucla.edu/alhhs/index.html "Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) membership is open to librarians, archivists, and museum professi…

1976 CE

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

1976 CE

#11569

Development of angiography and cardiovascular catheterization. Foreward by Herbert Abrams.

1976 CE

#12936

The oral manifestations of systemic disease.

1976 CE

#13064

Caspar Peucer's library: Portrait of a Wittenberg professor of the mid-sixteenth century

1977 CE

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

1977 CE

#2662.3

Contrary to nature. Being an illustrated commentary on some persons and events of historical importance in the development of knowledge concerning cancer.

1977 CE

#3161.41

The top ten clinical advances in cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine and surgery 1945-1975. Final report. 2 vols.

1977 CE

#5145.1

The black death in the Middle East.

1977 CE

#5019.14

Neurological classics in modern translation.

Full translations of 20 classic European contributions to 19th and 20th century neurology.

1977 CE–1981 CE

#5768.2

McDowell series of plastic surgical indexes. 5 vols.

Vol. I: 900 b.c. to a.d. 1863 (Zeis [see No. 5767] translated, with additions and revisions); Vol. II: 1864-1920; Vol. III: 1921-1946; [Vol. IV]: 25-year index of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1946-71; Vol. V: 1…

1977 CE

#5768.3

The source book of plastic surgery.

Reprints, translated into English where necessary, of classic papers on plastic surgery, with commentary.

1977 CE

#6650.3

Women in medicine: A bibliography of the literature on women physicians.

Lists over 4,000 items published between 1750 and 1975. With R. Haimbach, C. Fenichel and N. B. Woodside.

1977 CE

#258.10

A century of DNA: A history of the discovery of the structure and function of the genetic substance.

1977 CE

#7977

The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.

"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…

1977 CE

#8782

"Doctors wanted: No women need apply." Sexual barriers in the medical profession, 1835-1975.

1977 CE

#9151

Medicine without doctors: Home health care in American history. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt.

1977 CE

#9211

Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.

1977 CE

#9261

The spontaneous generation controversy from Descartes to Oparin.

1977 CE

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1977 CE

#10060

The hospice movement: A better way of caring for the dying.

1977 CE

#10253

Biomedical results from Skylab. Edited by Richard S. Johnston and Lawrence F. Dietlein.

"Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar…

1977 CE

#10300

Medicine in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: 1810-1976. Edited by Kent L. Brown.

41 chapters that address all aspects of medical and surgical practice (arranged by specialty) in addition to studies of specific institutions and special groups (e.g. women physicians and black physicians).

1977 CE

#10323

Medicine in Kentucky.

1977 CE

#10803

Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.

1977 CE

#10956

Medicine at Harvard: The first three hundred years.

1977 CE

#12484

A history of childbirth in America.

Expanded edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

1977 CE

#12554

Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.

1977 CE

#12609

Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia by Burton A. Konkle, with the collaboration of James M. Anders ... [et al.] ; edited by Frederick P. Henry. Revised by Lisabeth M. Holloway, with an index and bibliography.

1977 CE

#13178

Sigmund Freud's writings: A comprehensive bibliography.

1977 CE

#13246

Biographical dictionary of the phonetic sciences.

1977 CE

#13277

Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.

1977 CE

#13369

African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.

1977 CE

#13749

Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.

Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…