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3,302 entries published in North America.

1989 CE

#7028

Sexuality: An illustrated history. Representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS.

1989 CE

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

1989 CE

#7424

Food in history. Revised and updated edition

Digital version available at this link.

1989 CE

#7460

An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

1989 CE

#7763

Socioeconomics of surgery.

Probably the first book-form study of these issues.

1989 CE

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1989 CE

#8667

A model of its kind. Vol. 1: A centennial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2: A pictorial history of medicine at Johns Hopkins.

1989 CE

#8678

Doctors under Hitler.

1989 CE

#8727

Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.

1989 CE

#8735

The history of cancer: An annotated bibliography.

1989 CE

#8753

The library of Robert Hooke: The scientific book trade of Restoration England.

Reprints the auction catalogue of Hooke's library: Bibliotheca Hookiana (1703).

1989 CE

#8768

Pioneer healers: The history of women religious in American health care. Edited by Ursula Stepsis and Dolores Liptak.

1989 CE

#8863

Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.

1989 CE

#9107

Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century Valencia.

1989 CE

#9138

In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century.

1989 CE

#9342

Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.

1989 CE

#9433

Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.

1989 CE

#9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

1989 CE

#10079

Chills and fever: Health and disease in the early history of Alaska.

1989 CE

#10172

A history of vascular surgery.

Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

1989 CE

#10331

Saddlebags to scanners: The first 100 years of medicine In Washington State. Edited by Nancy M. Rockefellar and James W. Haviland.

1989 CE

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1989 CE

#11027

This idle trade: On doctors who were writers.

1989 CE

#11198

A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.

This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …

1989 CE

#12337

Thoracic surgery in Canada: A story of people, places, and events. The evolution of a surgical specialty.

1989 CE

#12354

Technology and American medical practice, 1880-1930: An anthology of sources. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

1989 CE

#12355

Efficiency, scientific management, and hospital standardization: An anthology of souyrces. Edited by Edward T. Morman.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

1989 CE

#12607

Periodontology, from its origins up to 1980: A survey.

1989 CE

#12889

Phossy jaw and the French match workers: Occupational health and women in the Third Republic.

"The 1898 suppression of white phosphorous in the French match industry was a victory of organized labour. At a time when most French workers did not have the power to effect changes in the health and safety condition…

1989 CE

#12919

Dental science in a new age: A history of the National Institute of Dental Research.

1989 CE

#13311

The great age of the microscope: The collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years.

1990 CE

#4483.6

Fractures: a history and iconography of their treatment.

1990 CE

#5019.22

The founders of child neurology. Edited by Stephen Ashwal.

125 biographical essays, with portraits and bibliographies, documenting the history of child neurology from the 17th century to the present.

1990 CE

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

1990 CE

#7025

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.

The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…

1990 CE

#7165

Women of Science. Righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes.

1990 CE

#7355

A history of medical informatics.

1990 CE

#7459

An Oak Spring pomona: A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

1990 CE

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990 CE

#7619

The sanitarians: A history of American public health.

1990 CE

#7883

A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.

Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.

1990 CE

#7966

The emergence of bacterial genetics.

1990 CE

#8049

Medieval & Early Renaissance medicine: An introduction to knowledge and practice.

1990 CE

#8379

Proceedings of the first conference on visualization in biomedical computing. May 22-25, 1990. Norbert F. Ezquerra, Chair.

1990 CE

#8684

The development of American gastroenterology

1990 CE

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1990 CE

#8759

Expectations of life: A study in the demography, statistics, and history of world mortality.

1990 CE

#9234

Explorers of the Amazon.

The author was a noted explorer.

1990 CE

#9534

The history of endocrine surgery.

With Friesen, Stanley R.; Johnston, Ivan D.A.; and Sellwood, Ronald A.