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3,302 entries published in North America.

1992 CE

#7195

Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.

1992 CE

#7410

The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.

1992 CE

#7570

Finders, Keepers: Eight collectors.

A spectacular book on eight medical and natural history museums: text by Gould, superbly reproduced dramatic photographs by Purcell. Chapter 1: "Dutch treat: Peter the Great and Frederik Ruysch".

1992 CE

#7594

Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.

1992 CE

#7611

The Hunterian Lectures in comparative anatomy May-June, 1837. Edited, and with an introductory essay and commentary by Phillip Reid Sloan.

1992 CE

#8019

The Medical Department: medical service in the European theater of operations. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.

1992 CE

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

1992 CE

#8083

Beyond Flexner: Medical education in the twentieth century. Edited by Barbara Barzansky and Norman Gevitz.

1992 CE

#8382

Medicine meets virtual reality: Discovering applications for 3-D multi-media interactive technology in the health sciences. A symposium, June 4-7, 1992, San Diego, California.

The first conference on the medical applications of virtual reality.

1992 CE

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

1992 CE

#8459

Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance.

1992 CE

#8637

Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control

1992 CE

#8731

The creationists: From scientific creationism to intelligent design. Expanded edition.

1992 CE

#8750

Conan Doyle's tales of medical humanism and values: Round the red lamp; being facts and fancies of medical life, with other medical short stories. Edited by Alvin Rodin and Jack Key.

1992 CE

#8773

A documentary history of biochemistry, 1770-1940. By Mikuláš Teich with Dorothy M. Needham.

1992 CE

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

1992 CE

#9186

Plant biomechanics: An engineering approach to plant form and function.

The first comprehensive treatment of plant biomechanics. "Niklas analyzes plant form and provides a far deeper understanding of how form is a response to basic physical laws. He examines the ways in which these laws c…

1992 CE

#9252

The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human rights in human experimentation.

1992 CE

#9300

Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.

1992 CE

#9410

Farmcarts to Fords: A history of the military ambulance, 1790-1925.

1992 CE

#9568

The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.

1992 CE

#9781

From paralysis to fatigue: A history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era.

1992 CE

#9928

Excerpts from classics in Allergy. Second edition.

1992 CE

#10077

The social ideas of American physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine.

1992 CE

#10128

Battlefield medicine: A history of the military ambulance from the Napoleonic wars through World War I.

1992 CE

#10283

To the ends of the earth: Women's search for education in medicine.

1992 CE

#10400

The code of codes: Scientific and social issues in the human genome project. Edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.

Chapter 1. "Out of eugenics: The historical politics of the human genome" by D. J. Kevles. Chapter 2. "A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing" by Horace Freeland Judson. Chapter 7. …

1992 CE

#10671

A history of gastric secretion and digestion: Experimental studies to 1975.

1992 CE

#10821

Vital signs: Medical realism in 19th-century fiction.

1992 CE

#10856

Plants of the gods: Their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers.

1992 CE

#11214

Georges Cuvier: An annotated bibliography of his published works

1992 CE

#11283

Toward a third century of excellence. An informal history of the J.B. Lippincott Company on the occasion of its two-hundredth anniversary.

1992 CE

#11532

A history of medicine.

Third edition with Oliver J. Kim, Baton Rouge, FL: CRC Press, 2018.

1992 CE

#11855

Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…

1992 CE

#12216

The evolution of cardiac surgery.

1992 CE

#12329

Clio: The arteries.The development of ideas in arterial surgery.

Reprints several dozen classic papers with commentary.

1992 CE

#13062

A pictorial history of blood practices and transfusion.

1992 CE

#13297

Miners and medicine: West Virginia memories.

"The coal-company doctors of Appalachia fought the health hazards of the coal fields, arguably the most dangerous and diseased working environment of the modern world. Often the doctors were held accountable for evils…

1992 CE

#13344

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

1992 CE

#13605

Trois siècles d'histoire médicale au Québec: Chronologie des institutions et des pratiques, 1639-1939.

1992 CE

#14149

When medicine went mad: Bioethics and the holocaust. Edited by Arthur L. Caplan.

1993 CE

#6902

Orthopedics: A history and iconography.

1993 CE

#6967

Surgery: An illustrated history.

Text written by Ira Rutkow; captions to illustrations written by Jeremy Norman.

1993 CE

#7022

Men of vision: Lives of notable figures in ophthalmology.

1993 CE

#7182

Radiological oncologists: The unfolding of a medical specialty.

1993 CE

#7399

The pupil: Anatomy, physiology and clinical applications. 2 vols.

1993 CE

#8000

Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.

1993 CE

#8179

A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.

1993 CE

#8518

Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…

1993 CE

#8649

Microbes and minie balls: An annotated bibliography of Civil War medicine.