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3,302 entries published in North America.

1987 CE

#8021

The Medical Department: Medical service in the Mediterranean and minor theatres. The U.S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

1987 CE

#8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

1987 CE

#8671

Ross A. McFarland collection in aerospace medicine and human factors engineering. Catalogue of the library.

1987 CE

#8842

Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .

1987 CE

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

1987 CE

#9212

United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1987 CE

#9883

The making of the modern body: Sexuality and society in the nineteenth century. Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

1987 CE

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1987 CE

#10212

The human vocal tract: Anatomy, function, development, and evolution.

1987 CE

#10242

The Victorian Web: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.

http://www.victorianweb.org/ "The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites. …

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987 CE

#10624

Mothers and medicine: A social History of infant feeding, 1890–1950.

1987 CE

#11009

Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.

1987 CE

#11024

Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.

Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…

1987 CE

#11182

Developmental stages in human embryos. Including a revision of Streeter's "Horizons" and a survey of the Carnegie Collection.

Digital facsimile from embyrology.med.unsw.edu at this link .

1987 CE

#11585

Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century

"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …

1987 CE

#11643

Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.

1987 CE

#12124

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur

1987 CE

#12193

History of the American Physiological Society. The first century, 1887-1987. Edited by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, Toby A. Appel.

1987 CE

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1987 CE

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

1987 CE

#13470

Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.

1987 CE

#13798

CDC and the smallpox crusade.

Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.

1988 CE

#2682.56

Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation. 4 vols

Some of the articles in this work include historical references, useful for the recent history of this rapidly evolving field.

1988 CE

#2581.12

Milestones in immunology: A historical exploration.

Readings from primary sources from 1884 to 1975 with expert introductions, commentaries, and bibliographies.

1988 CE

#3911.2

Endocrinology: people and ideas.

Thematic historical essays written by pioneers in the field, edited by McCann.

1988 CE

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988 CE–2000 CE

#6639.12

American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.

Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.

1988 CE

#6639.13

Dictionary of American nursing biography.

Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.

1988 CE–1992 CE

#5813.14

The history of surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Vol. 1: Textbooks, monographs and treatises. Vol. 2: Periodicals and pamphlets.

The most comprehensive annotated bibliographies of American surgical literature to 1900. Includes separate bibliographies for general surgery, ophthalmology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopedic surgery, gynaecology, uro…

1988 CE

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

1988 CE

#7077

Intimate matters. A history of sexuality in America.

The first history of sexuality in America.

1988 CE

#8066

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

1988 CE

#8640

Critical care nursing: A history

1988 CE

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1988 CE

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1988 CE

#9794

A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.

1988 CE

#10015

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South. Edited by Todd Savitt and James Harvey Young.

1988 CE

#10228

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

1988 CE

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1988 CE

#11197

Sir William Osler: An annotated bibliography with illustrations. Edited by Richard L. Golden and Charles G. Roland.

This was my first effort as a publisher. I was responsible for the illustrations, the captions, and for chosing the appendices - JMN. Richard Golden issued an Addenda to this bibliography in 1997.

1988 CE

#11281

An informal history of W. B. Saunders Company.

1988 CE

#11507

Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.

1988 CE

#11835

Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire.

1988 CE

#13296

Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.

"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…

1989 CE

#436.1

Atlas of human anatomy.

The culmination of the life work of one of the greatest, and most prolific, anatomical illustrators of the 20th century. Includes 514 full-color plates, many of which were created for this atlas. Reproduction of previ…

1989 CE

#2581.14

A history of immunology.

Carefully documented, well-written, analytical history from the ancient world to c. 1975 by an expert researcher in the field. Includes biographical dictionary of notable contributors, list of “seminal discoveri…

1989 CE

#6623.52

Medicine, literature, and eponyms: Encyclopaedia of medical eponyms derived from literary characters.

1989 CE

#6786.33

A catalogue of seventeenth century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.

Describes, with paginations, approximately 13,300 monographs, dissertations, broadsides, pamphlets and serials printed between 1601 and 1700.