North America

1993 CE

#8784

The citizen-patient in revolutionary and imperial Paris.

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1993 CE

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1993 CE

#9782

From the mind into the body: The cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms.

1993 CE

#9791

Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. Edited by Arthur W. Hafner. 2 vols.

1993 CE

#9797

The face of mercy: A photographic history of medicine at war.

1993 CE–2009 CE

#10255

Space biology and medicine. 5 vols. Vol. 1: Space and its exploration, edited by J. D. Rummel, V.A. Kotelnikov, and M. V. Ivanov. Vol. 2: Life support and habitability, edited by F. M. Sulzman and A. M. Genin. Vol. 3, Books 1 & 2: Humans in spaceflight, edited by Carolyn S. Leach Huntoon, Vesevolod V. Antipov, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 4: Health, performance, and safety of space crews, edited by Arnauld E. Nicogossian, Stanley R. Mohler, Oleg G. Gazenko, Anatoliy I. Grigoriev. Vol. 5: U.S. and Russian cooperation in space biology and medicine, edited by Charles F. Sawin, Svetlana I. Hanson, Nancy G. House, and Igor D. Pestov.

"The five-volume Space Biology and Medicine is a joint work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the first volume contributors describe the current status of the…

1993 CE

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1993 CE

#12429

The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new biology.

1993 CE

#12882

The history of pain. Translated by Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, S. W. Cadden.

1994 CE

#7027

Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research.

1994 CE

#7201

Human sexuality: An encyclopedia, edited by Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.

1994 CE

#7239

Jews, medicine and medieval society.

1994 CE

#7421

Civil War medicine: care and comfort of the wounded.

1994 CE

#7561

Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.

1994 CE

#7647

I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.

Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.

1994 CE

#7821

Medical history through postage stamps.

1994 CE

#7886

Fighting for life: American military medicine in World War II.

1994 CE

#8462

Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.

1994 CE

#8538

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

1994 CE

#8597

The history of cardiology.

1994 CE

#8685

The growth of gastroenterological knowledge during the 20th century.

1994 CE

#8733

The history of obstetrics and gynecology.

1994 CE

#8765

Nurturing yesterday's child: A portrayal of the Drake collection of paediatric history.

Pediatric prints, paintings, and antiques collected by Theodore G. H. Drake.

1994 CE

#8864

Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.

"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …

1994 CE

#8989

Evolution of infectious disease.

1994 CE

#8991

Why we get sick: The new science of Darwinian medicine.

1994 CE

#9115

The art of asylum-keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the origins of Ameican psychiatry.

1994 CE

#9187

Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.

The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reprodu…

1994 CE

#9226

Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1994 CE

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1994 CE

#9409

Medical protestants: The Eclectics in American medicine, 1825-1939.

The first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. "The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medici…

1994 CE

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

1994 CE

#9718

Molecular politics: Developing American and British regulatory policy for genetic engineering, 1972-1982.

1994 CE

#9742

The health of the presidents: The 41 United States presidents through 1993 from a physician's point of view.

1994 CE

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

1994 CE

#10038

How we die: Reflections on life's final chapter.

1994 CE

#10051

Nature doctors: Pioneers in naturopathic medicine.

1994 CE

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

1994 CE

#10195

A history of gene transfer and therapy by Jon A. Wolff and Joshua Lederberg in: Wolff, Jon A. (ed.) Gene therapeutics: Methods and applications of direct gene transfer, pp.3-25.

Valuable for its detailed, but highly compressed discussion of the earliest history of these subjects, co-authored by Lederberg, who played a significant role during that period.

1994 CE

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1994 CE

#10849

The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).

Revised edition, 1995.

1994 CE

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1994 CE

#11177

The embryonic human brain: An atlas of developmental stages.

"The first work devoted to the staged, embryonic human brain."

1994 CE

#11262

Order out of chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's coming of age.

1994 CE

#11285

Epilogue: The death of an imprint: A supplement to two hundred years of publishing.

Retrospective on Lea & Febiger after its closure.

1994 CE

#11655

The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). Edited by David M. Reifler.

A history of the first twenty-five years of the ASOPRS, plus a history of ophthalmic plastic surgery from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 1994.

1994 CE

#11785

Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969. Edited by Joel D. Howell.

1994 CE

#11889

Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.

Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…

1994 CE

#12375

Heart surgery classics. Edited by Larry W. Stephenson and Renato Ruggiero.

Reprints of classics with commentaries by Henry Bahnson, Earl Bakken, Denton Cooley, James Cox, Michael DeBakey, Alden Harken, Dudley Johnson, Adrian Kantrowitz, Willem Kolff, C. Walton Lillehei, and Albert Starr. Sev…