North America
3,302 entries published in North America.
1998 CE
#9682
Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.
1998 CE
#9717
Profiles in science: U. S. National Library of Medicine.
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ "This site celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. It makes the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanc…
1998 CE
#9774
The genesis of surgical anesthesia.
Treats the history of surgical anesthesia from the earliest time through the work of John Snow (1813-1858).
1998 CE
#9843
Library of Congress Digital Collections.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/ In February 2018 the Library of Congress offered 316 different digital collections: Subject American History98 Performing Arts77 Government, Law & Politics72 World Cultures & History65…
1998 CE
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The Huxley File. Created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce.
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/ "Those merely interested in Huxley and scholars engaged in research on him, on Darwinism, on Victorian culture, on the history of science, and on topics such as those noted will find …
1998 CE
#10182
The land of prehistory: A critical history of American anthropology.
1998 CE
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An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.
"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…
1998 CE
#10477
Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.
1998 CE
#10806
Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.
1998 CE
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To improve human health. A history of the Institute of Medicine.
Digital edition available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230742/ .
1998 CE
#11591
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
1998 CE
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A brief history of cocaine.
Second edition, 2006.
1998 CE
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The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications.
Describes the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, preparation, and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants and fungi. The encyclopedia also offers information on ritual and medicinal use. Also includes 168…
1998 CE
#12553
African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.
1998 CE
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Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
1998 CE
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Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith.
One of the only books on sexuality in colonial America.
1998 CE
#13294
Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.
1998 CE
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The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.
1998 CE
#13599
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …
1998 CE
#14153
Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor
"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…
1999 CE
#7032
Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.
Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…
1999 CE
#7104
Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.
1999 CE
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Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.
1999 CE
#7379
From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.
1999 CE
#7838
Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.
1999 CE
#7973
MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching.
Second edition, 2006.
1999 CE
#8069
An American Obsession: Science, medicine, and homosexuality in modern society.
1999 CE
#8141
The American medical ethics revolution: How the AMA's code of ethics has transformed physicians' relationships to patients, professionals, and society.
1999 CE
#8337
Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.
1999 CE
#8563
Albertus Magnus, On animals: A medieval summa zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols.
1999 CE
#8608
Cardiology: The evolution of the science and the art. Second edition.
1999 CE
#8625
Nurturing children: A history of pediatrics
1999 CE
#8694
The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
1999 CE
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Time to heal: American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care.
1999 CE
#8721
Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine.
1999 CE
#8752
Four centuries of clinical chemistry.
The first in-depth study of the development of this field that had such a profound impact on patient care beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.
1999 CE
#8767
Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920.
1999 CE
#9113
The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.
1999 CE
#9193
The birth of the cell.
1999 CE
#9292
Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.
Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.
1999 CE
#9602
A Pompeian herbal: Ancient and modern medicinal plants. Plant portraits by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson Meyer. Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemki and others.
1999 CE
#9745
Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.
1999 CE
#9761
Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.
1999 CE
#10031
Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
1999 CE
#10092
A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.
1999 CE
#10093
Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.
Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…
1999 CE
#10179
Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.
The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.
1999 CE
#10229
The Nazi war on cancer.
1999 CE
#10315
Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.
1999 CE
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