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3,302 entries published in North America.

1996 CE

#7015

The history of ophthalmology.

1996 CE

#7040

Handbook of medieval sexuality. Edited by Bullough and Brundage.

1996 CE

#7185

The pioneers of NMR and magnetic resonance in medicine: The story of MRI.

1996 CE

#7520

Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives.

1996 CE

#7779

Respiratory physiology: People and ideas, edited by John B. West.

1996 CE

#7794

Final report of the Advisory Committee on human radiation experiments.

Report of "an intensive inquiry into the history of government-sponsored human radiation experiments and intentional environmental releases of radiation that occurred between 1944 and 1974. We have studied the ethical…

1996 CE

#7856

American cardiology: The history of a specialty and its college.

1996 CE

#8052

Health and healing in eighteenth-century Germany.

1996 CE

#8116

Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/index.php From the Wikipedia article on the Internet Archive, accessed 12-2016: "The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal …

1996 CE

#8602

The machine in the nursery: Incubator technology and the origins of newborn intensive care.

1996 CE

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1996 CE

#8661

Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…

1996 CE

#8688

The shaping of a profession: Physicians in Norway, past and present. Edited by Ivind Larsen and Bent Olav Olsen.

1996 CE

#8766

Fritz Spiegl's sick notes: An alphabetical browsing book of medical derivations, abbreviations mnemonics and slang for amusement and edification of medics, nurses, patients and hypochondriacs.

Both serious and humorous; illustrated with cartoons.

1996 CE

#8926

Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.

"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…

1996 CE

#9162

Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.

"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…

1996 CE

#9290

Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.

1996 CE

#9299

Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.

1996 CE

#9327

The origin and evolution of birds.

On the evolution of birds and avian flight. Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the hypothesis, accepted by many paleontologists, that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are the…

1996 CE

#9426

Photographic atlas of Civil War injuries. Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Otis Historical Archives.

1996 CE

#9427

Orthopaedic injuries of the Civil War: An atlas of orthopaedic injuries and treatments during the Civil War.

1996 CE

#9428

Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.

1996 CE

#9435

Medicine, society and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.

1996 CE

#9605

The wonderful art of the eye: A critical edition of the Middle English translation of his De probatissima arte oculorum, edited by L. M. Eldredge.

1996 CE

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1996 CE

#9787

Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.

1996 CE

#9800

Veterinary medicine: An illustrated history.

1996 CE

#10058

A midwife through the dying process: Stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life.

1996 CE

#10174

Sexualities in Victorian Britain. Edited by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams.

1996 CE

#10288

Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.

1996 CE

#10435

The song of the Dodo: Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.

1996 CE

#10646

Life's splendid drama: Evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life's ancestry, 1860-1940.

1996 CE–2006 CE

#11012

McGill medicine: The first half century, 1829-1885. McGill medicine: The second half century, 1885-1936. 2 vols.

The second volume was co-authored by Hanaway, Creuss, and James Darragh.

1996 CE

#11110

Making PCR: A story of biotechnology.

1996 CE

#11852

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.

The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…

1996 CE

#11898

Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.

1996 CE

#12106

Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.

1996 CE

#12316

Opera, desire, disease, death.

"The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with f…

1996 CE

#12748

The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.

"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …

1996 CE–2018 CE

#12939

The history of neuroscience in autobiography, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire. 10 vols.

"The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography is a collection of autobiographical chapters, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire, that details the lives and discoveries of eminent senior neuroscientists. "During…

1996 CE

#13829

Notable women in the life sciences: A biographical dictionary.

1996 CE

#14050

The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.

1997 CE

#6826

A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts. Samuel H. Greenblat, Editor. T. Forscht Dagi and Mel H. Epstein, Constributing Editors.

The most comprehensive history of the subject.

1997 CE

#6906

American surgical instruments: The history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900.

1997 CE

#6966

American surgery: An illustrated history.

1997 CE

#6978

History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.

1997 CE

#7069

The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.

1997 CE

#7166

Women in the biological sciences. A biobibliographic sourcebook.

1997 CE

#7181

Naked to the bone. Medical imaging in the twentieth century.

1997 CE

#7219

The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine empire.

When first published in 1985 this was the first monograph devoted solely to the history of Byzantine hospitals. Reissued with an extensive new introduction by the author in 1997.