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3,302 entries published in North America.

2000 CE

#12528

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

2000 CE

#13223

A new and untried course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998.

2000 CE

#13318

The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.

According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and…

2000 CE

#13883

NDA II. The story of America's second National Dental Association.

2001 CE

#6903

Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy

The most comprehensive biography of Morton, and the most comprehensive account of the ether controversy between Morton and Charles Thomas Jackson.

2001 CE

#7101

A history of blood coagulation.

2001 CE

#7191

Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.

2001 CE–2008 CE

#7524

An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.

2001 CE

#7635

Stuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.

2001 CE

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2001 CE

#8124

Medical ethics in the ancient world.

2001 CE

#8167

The Wikipedia.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history When I posted this in December 2016 there were over 5,300,000 entries just in the English language Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Though, of course, the q…

2001 CE

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2001 CE

#8357

Anglo-Saxon remedies, charms, and prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: The ‘Lacnunga’. Edited and translated with introduction, appendices and commentary and bibliography by Edward Pettit. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile of British Library MS Harley 585 from the British Library at this link.

2001 CE

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

2001 CE

#9337

The life of a virus: Tobacco mosaic virus as an experimental model, 1930-1965.

Tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus isolated and crystallized.

2001 CE

#9408

The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.

"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …

2001 CE

#9816

The royal doctors, 1485-1714: Medical personnel at the Tudor and Stuart courts.

"... investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men [and a handful of wo…

2001 CE

#9932

No place like home: A history of nursing and home care in the United States.

2001 CE

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2001 CE

#10115

America's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.

2001 CE

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001 CE

#10256

Spacefaring: The human dimension.

2001 CE

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2001 CE

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2001 CE

#10428

Out of the dead house: Nineteenth‐century women physicians and the writing of medicine.

2001 CE

#10623

Don't kill your baby: Public health and the decline of breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

2001 CE

#10707

Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.

2001 CE

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2001 CE

#10838

The scalpel and the butterfly: The war between animal research and animal protection.

2001 CE

#10866

A history of bisexuality.

2001 CE

#11451

Medical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine. Edited by E. H. Shortliffe, L. E. Perreault, G. Wiederhold, L. M. Fagan.

A fourth expanded edition of this textbook, edited by Shortliffe and James J. Cimino, was published as Biomedical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (New York: Springer, 2014).

2001 CE

#12092

Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.

2001 CE

#12129

The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.

2001 CE

#12645

Classics in movement science. Edited by Mark L. Latash and Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky.

2001 CE

#12975

The medical library of Dr. Meyer Friedman.

Friedman's library, containing copies of many great medical classics, was sold at auction by Sotheby's in New York, on November 16, 2001.

2001 CE–2011 CE

#13227

A History of Speech - Language Pathology.

https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/new_history/overview.html "Organization of the website "The website is divided into six historical periods: History of the ancients: 3000 BC to 500 AD Middle ages: 400 to 1500 AD E…

2001 CE

#13288

Surgeons at war: Medical arrangements for the treatment of the sick and wounded in the British army during the late 18th and 19th centuries.

2001 CE

#13389

Devices and desires: A history of contraceptives in America.

2001 CE

#13628

The world of caffeine: The science and culture of the world's most popular drug.

2002 CE

#7013

Dates in ophthalmology.

An annotated chronological listing of significant events in the history of ophthalmology.

2002 CE

#7196

History of the disorders of cardiac rhythm. Third edition.

2002 CE

#7231

Hear, Hear! Six Centuries of Otology, from the Collection of Robert J. Ruben.

Very well annotated descriptions of over 100 classics in the history of otology.

2002 CE

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

2002 CE

#7559

Cabinets of curiosities.

2002 CE

#7755

Jews and medicine: An epic saga.

2002 CE

#7877

History of the pancreas: Mysteries of a hidden organ.

2002 CE

#7953

Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.

Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.

2002 CE

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.

2002 CE

#8200

Origins of cyberspace: A library on the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications.

Includes some significant early annotated references to the applictions of computing to biology and medicine.