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3,302 entries published in North America.

1997 CE

#7461

An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.

1997 CE

#7463

The eye of the artist.

1997 CE

#7722

Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.

A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.

1997 CE

#8014

The history of the United States Army Medical Service Corps.

From the American revolution to 1994.

1997 CE

#8051

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.

1997 CE

#8264

The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1997 CE

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1997 CE

#8629

The blues: A history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system.

1997 CE

#8734

Tending the young from the T.G.H. Drake collection on the history of pediatrics.

1997 CE

#8749

Moving questions: A history of membrane transport and bioenergetics.

"This book describes half a century of progress in two mainstream areas of biological research: membrane transport, initially a focus of physiologists, and oxidative phosphorylation, initially a focus of biochemists. …

1997 CE

#9137

Law and the American health care system.

Second revised edition, 2012, with extensive discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

1997 CE

#9385

A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.

1997 CE

#9407

Kindly medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911.

"Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines …

1997 CE

#9463

The powerful placebo: From ancient priest to modern physician.

1997 CE

#9596

California Digital Library.

http://www.cdlib.org "The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being pu…

1997 CE

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…

1997 CE

#9936

Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.

By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.

1997 CE

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

1997 CE

#10247

Battle station sick bay: Navy medicine in World War II.

1997 CE

#10361

Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.

1997 CE

#12070

The changing face of death. Historical accounts of death and disposal.

1997 CE

#12128

U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.

Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…

1997 CE

#12326

A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.

1997 CE

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

1997 CE

#13054

Five centuries of veterinary medicine: A short-title catalog of the Washington State University Veterinary History Collection.

Checklist of over 1800 books, journals, manuscripts, illustrations, and other rare documents.

1997 CE

#13604

Histoire du Collège des médecins du Québec, 1847-1997.

1998 CE

#7269

Ancestral images: The iconography of human origins.

1998 CE

#7613

Medicine, mortality and the book trade.

Seven essays, edited by Harris and Myers. Of special interest are Harris, "Printers' diseases: The human cost of a mechanical process"; Lotte Hellinga, "Medical incunabula"; John Symons, " 'These crafty dealers': Sir …

1998 CE

#7642

The complete visible human: The complete high-resolution male and female anatomical datasets from the Visible Human Project.

The first anatomically exact and complete, three-dimensional, computer-generated reconstruction of actual human bodies. Includes 2 CD-ROMs. See https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html.

1998 CE

#7717

Historical perspectives on climate change.

1998 CE

#7780

High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.

1998 CE

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

1998 CE

#7974

MEDLINE for health professionals; How to search PubMed on the internet.

1998 CE

#8018

The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.

1998 CE

#8032

Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples

Originally published in 1969.

1998 CE

#8114

MedlinePlus.

https://medlineplus.gov/ "MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical librar…

1998 CE

#8171

U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Projects.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/digitalprojects.html Also: Circulating Now: From the Historical Collections of the World's Largest Biomedical Library: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

1998 CE

#8205

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

1998 CE

#8265

Medical encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1998 CE

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

1998 CE

#8458

Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing. Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.

1998 CE

#8486

Greek medicine from the heroic to the Hellenistic age: A sourcebook.

1998 CE

#8560

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1998 CE

#8648

Gangrene and glory: Medical care during the American Civil War.

1998 CE

#8785

Death of medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology under the Swastika. Edited by A. Bernard Ackerman.

1998 CE

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1998 CE

#9215

U. S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History: Books and Documents.

http://history.amedd.army.mil/books.html "The US Army Medical Department has an extensive and illustrious history. Brief historical highlights include maintaining one of the oldest regiments within the Army, providing…

1998 CE

#9642

"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

1998 CE

#9650

Contagion and confinement: Controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.