North America

1980 CE

#1588.17

Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.

1980 CE

#3161.5

Blood, pure and eloquent. A story of discovery, of people, and of ideas.

A collective work by 19 authors, edited by M. M. Wintrobe. This is a detailed history of haematology, well documented and well indexed.

1980 CE

#3161.6

The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.

Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.

1980 CE

#5145.2

Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.

1980 CE

#6311.7

Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.

1980 CE

#6596.4

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.

A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.

1980 CE

#6604.31

When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.

Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.

1980 CE

#7078

The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.

The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…

1980 CE

#7950

Centenary of Index Medicus: 1879-1979. Edited by John B. Blake.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1980 CE

#7970

The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.

Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.

1980 CE

#8175

Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry: The Dendral project.

1980 CE

#8794

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.

1980 CE

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

1980 CE

#9147

Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.

Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...&a…

1980 CE

#9163

Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.

1980 CE

#9747

Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.

1980 CE

#10444

Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.

1980 CE

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1980 CE

#11454

Professionalizing modern medicine: Paris surgeons and medical science and institutions in the 18th century.

1980 CE

#11488

The seeds of artificial intelligence: SUMEX-AIM.

A semi-popular and extensively illustrated summary of research on artificial intelligence in medicine at Stanford Medical School as directed by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanley N. Cohen, Carl Djerassi, and Elliott C. Lev…

1980 CE

#11579

The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.

"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…

1980 CE

#12344

Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.

1980 CE

#13228

Speech and speech disorders in Western thought before 1600.

1981 CE

#2188.3

The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.

1981 CE

#2682.55

Medicine and its technology: an introduction to the history of medical instrumentation.

1981 CE

#3705.3

History of dentistry. Translated by H. M. Koehler.

The author does not consider this a simple translation of his Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde (1973), as in the sections devoted to the 19th and early 20th centuries it has been so substantially revised as to be “a…

1981 CE

#4158.2

The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.

A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.

1981 CE

#5768.4

History of free skin grafting.

Comprehensive work, with hundreds of bibliographical references. No index.

1981 CE

#6610.15

The art of healing. Medicine and science in American art.

1981 CE

#6524.4

Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.

1981 CE

#6742.9

Medical obituaries. American physicians’ biographical notices in selected medical journals before 1907.

With E.N. Feind and G.N. Holloway.

1981 CE

#6786.23

Medical bibliography in an age of discontinuity.

A history of medical bibliography since World War II, focusing on the information requirements of biomedical research; supplements No. 6785.1

1981 CE

#6596.5

American medicine in transition, 1840-1910.

1981 CE

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.

1981 CE

#6982

Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.

Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1981 CE

#7760

Radiation and human health.

The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.

1981 CE

#8028

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

1981 CE

#8033

Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.

1981 CE

#8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…

1981 CE

#8437

Lectures on Galen's De sectis. (Arethusa Monographs, VIII). Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.

English translation of this commentary on Galen's De sectis (On sects) given by the iatrosophist and commentator on medical texts, Agnellus, circa 600 CE.

1981 CE

#8659

The American Red Cross: The first century.

Extensively illustrated with photographs.

1981 CE

#8668

Science at the beside: Clinical research in American medicine 1905-1945.

Definitive account of the development of academic medicine and clinical research in America during the period covered.

1981 CE

#8841

Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.

1981 CE

#9674

Making sense of self: Medical advice literature in late nineteenth-century America.

1981 CE

#9728

The DNA story: A documentary history of gene cloning.

1981 CE

#10045

Defining death: A report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1981 CE

#10222

Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.

A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.

1981 CE

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

1981 CE

#10834

A bibliography on animal rights and related matters.

"... restricted to literature in the English language, with over 3200 entries; it is also confined to the thought and practices of the Western world, from Biblical times to 1980." Concerns much on animal experimentati…