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3,302 entries published in North America.

1990 CE

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1990 CE

#9776

A chronology of nuclear medicine.

1990 CE

#9802

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-850.

1990 CE

#9924

Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times.

1990 CE

#10713

Medical publishing in 19th century America: Lea of Philadelphia, William Wood & Company of New York City, and F.E. Boericke of Philadelphia: Including a checklist of Wood's Library of standard medical authors & specimen Lea, Wood, and Boericke catalogues.

1990 CE

#10870

The health of immigrant Australia: A social perspective.

1990 CE

#10873

Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.

1990 CE

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1990 CE

#10985

Osler's legacy: The department of medicine at Johns Hopkins 1889-1989.

1990 CE

#11199

A commentary on the medical writings of Rudolf Virchow by L. J. Rather.

An extensively annotated bibliography of all of Virchow's medical writings, but not including his many contributions to anthropology

1990 CE

#11421

Pharmacy: An illustrated history.

1990 CE

#11448

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Edited by Wayne R. Dynes. Associate editors: Stephen Donaldson, Warren Johansson, and William A. Percy. 2 vols.

1990 CE

#12334

Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.

1990 CE

#12453

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-1850.

1990 CE

#12649

One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.

1990 CE

#13343

The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.

1990 CE

#13391

The condom industry in the United States.

c. 1990 CE

#13586

Casey A. Wood Collection: Complete inventory list. P145.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/33597385/casey-a-wood-collection-osler-library-archives-mcgill-university "This is a guide to one of the collections held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill …

1991 CE

#6786.35

Heirs of Hippocrates. The development of medicine in a catalogue of historic books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, The University of Iowa

Describes with detailed historical notes over 2300 books in the John Martin Rare Book Room, chiefly donated to the library by John Martin (1904-1996). The books are arranged chronologically by date of the author&rsquo…

1991 CE

#6786.36

The Haskell F. Norman library of science and medicine. 2 vols.

Fully annotated descriptions, mostly with complete collations, paginations, and plate counts, of 2600 classics covering the spectrum of the sciences, emphasizing medicine, from circa 1470 to 1950, in the library of Ha…

1991 CE–2007 CE

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1991 CE

#7765

Asceticism and healing in ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist monastery.

1991 CE

#8022

Medical support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1965-1970.

Available as a PDF from www.history.army.mil at this link.

1991 CE

#8125

Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.

1991 CE

#8343

A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.

"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…

1991 CE

#8650

Milestones in leukemia research and therapy.

Freireich was part of the team that first introduced combined-drug cancer chemotherapy in 1965.

1991 CE

#8774

History of transplantation: Thirty-five recollections.

1991 CE

#9154

From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.

1991 CE

#9311

The picture of health: Images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand collection. Commentaries by William H. Helfand. Essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards.

1991 CE

#9456

An introduction to the medical history of Ethiopia.

1991 CE

#10036

Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history.

1991 CE

#10202

Max Brödel, The man who put art into medicine

In the late 1890s, Brödel was brought to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. Besides creating a prolific amount of w…

1991 CE

#10265

Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.

Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.

1991 CE

#10303

The computer-based patient record: An essential technology for health care. Committee on Improving the Patient Record, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine. Edited by Richard S. Dick and Elaine B. Steen

1991 CE

#10359

Strangers at the bedside: A history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making.

The first history of bioethics.

1991 CE

#10409

The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.

1991 CE

#10767

A conceptual history of modern embryology. Edited by Scott F. Gilbert. Developmental biology: A comprehensive synthesis, vol. 7.

1991 CE

#10983

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.

1991 CE

#10984

Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.

1991 CE

#11165

America's welfare state from Roosevelt to Reagan.

"Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward …

1991 CE

#11791

Neurolinguistics: Historical and theoretical perspectives. Translated by Terence MacNamee.

1991 CE

#12363

The origins of thoracic anesthesia.

1991 CE

#12650

Color atlas/text of ophthalmic parasitology. Edited by B. H. Kean, Tsieh Sun, and Robert M. Ellsworth.

Probably the first ophthalmic textbook devoted exclusively to parasitic infections, discussing diseases caused by protozoa, nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, and arthropods.

1991 CE

#12938

Mapping the brain and its functions: Integrating enabling technologies into neuroscience research. Edited by Constance M. Pechura and Joseph B. Martin. Committee on a National Neural Circuitry Database....

The digital edition is available from nap.edu at this link.

1991 CE

#13177

Homeopathy in the United States: A bibliography of homeopathic medical imprints, 1825-1925.

1992 CE

#6993

Chiropractic: History and evolution of a new profession.

1992 CE

#7017

The development of American pharmacology. John J. Abel and the shaping of a discipline.

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1992 CE

#7170

Religious medicine: The history and evolution of Indian medicine.

1992 CE

#7184

Radiology: An illustrated history.