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DEATH & DYING

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1623Historia vitae & mortis. Sive, titulus secundus in historia naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam: Quae est instaurationis magnae pars tertia.
BACON, Francis (1561 – 1626)
BACON, Francis (1561 – 1626)
1642Religio medici.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
1666Modo practico de embalsamar cuerpos defunctos, para preservarlos incorruptos....
PÉREZ FADRIQUE, Juan Eulogio
1682Mercurius compitalitius, sive, Index medico-practicus.per decisiones, cautiones, animadversiones, castigationes & observationes in sugulis affectibus praeter naturam et praesidiis medicis, deaeteticis, cheirurgicis & pharmaceuticis... Accessit appendix de medici munere.
BONET, Théophile (1620 – 1689)
1690A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
1707De subitaneis mortibus libri duo.
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)
1742An mortis incertae signa minus incerta a chirurgicis quam ab aliis experimenti?
WINSLOW, Jacques-Bénigne [Jacob Benignus Winsløw] (1669 – 1760)
WINSLOW, Jacques-Bénigne [Jacob Benignus Winsløw] (1669 – 1760)
1752Lettres sur la certitude des signes de la mort où l'on rassure les citoyens de la crainte d'être enterrés vivans ; avec des observations et des expériences sur les noyés.
LOUIS, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
LOUIS, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
1763Mémoire sur une question anatomique relative à la jurisprudence; dans lequel on établit les principes pour distinguer, à l’inspection d’un corps trouvé pendu, les signes du suicide d’avec ceux de l’assassinat.
LOUIS, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
LOUIS, Antoine (1723 – 1792)
1767A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad, according to the different soils, situations, business of life, use of the non-naturals, &c. faithfully collected from, and attested by, above three hundred vouchers, and many of them for a long course of years, in two different Periods. To which is added a syllabus of the general States of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse.
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
1769A discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments, on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital: Delivered before the president and governors of King's College, at the commencement, held on the 16th of May, 1769. As advice to those gentlemen who then received the first medical degrees conferred by that university.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1770Observations on the duties and offices of a physician; and on the method of prosecuting enquiries in philosophy.
GREGORY, John (1724 – 1773)
GREGORY, John (1724 – 1773)
1777Two essays. [Essay I. Of suicide]
HUME, David (1711 – 1776)
HUME, David (1711 – 1776)
1798Of the treatment of the dying: Disturb him not - let him pass peaceably. IN: Medical histories and reflections, volume 3, 191-208.
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
1800Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort.
BICHAT, Marie François Xavier (1771 – 1802)
1803Medical ethics; or, a code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons. To which is added an appendix; containing a discourse on hospital duties ....
PERCIVAL, Thomas (1740 – 1804)
PERCIVAL, Thomas (1740 – 1804)
1826De euthanasia medica prolusio.
MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)
MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)
1839First annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
FARR, William (1807 – 1883)
1840The anatomy of suicide.
WINSLOW, Forbes Benignus (1810 – 1874)
WINSLOW, Forbes Benignus (1810 – 1874)
1856Du suicide et de la folie suicide, considérés dans leur rapports avec la statistique, la médecine et la philosophie.
BRIERRE DE BOISMONT, Alexandre-Jacques-François (Brière de Boismont) (1797 – 1881)
1869The nomenclature of diseases drawn up by a joint committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. (Subject to decennial revision).
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
1887Euthanasia; or, medical treatment in aid of an easy death.
MUNK, William (1816 – 1898)
1889Cardiac failure and sudden death.
MACWILLIAM, John Alexander (1857 – 1937)
MACWILLIAM, John Alexander (1857 – 1937)
1895La mort et la mort subite.
BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
1895Das Recht auf den Tod. Sociale Studie.
JOST, Adolf Lothar (1874 – 1908)
1922The biology of death.
PEARL, Raymond (1879 – 1940)
PEARL, Raymond (1879 – 1940)
1927Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.
ROST, Hans (1877 – 1970)
1935The care of the aged, the dying and the dead.
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
WORCESTER, Alfred (1855 – 1951)
1952Care of the dying.
ALVAREZ, Walter Clement (1884 – 1978)
ALVAREZ, Walter Clement (1884 – 1978)
1968A definition of irreversible coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death.
HARVARD AD HOC COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH
1969On death and dying.
KÜBLER-ROSS, Elisabeth (1926 – 2004)
1977The hospice movement: A better way of caring for the dying.
STODDARD WARBURG, Sandol (1927 – 1990)
1981Defining death: A report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
1986The end of life: Euthanasia and morality.
RACHELS, James W. (1941 – 2003)
1994How we die: Reflections on life's final chapter.
NULAND, Sherwin Bernard (1930 – 2014)
NULAND, Sherwin Bernard (1930 – 2014)
1996A midwife through the dying process: Stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life.
QUILL, Timothy E. (1949 – )
1997The changing face of death. Historical accounts of death and disposal.
JUPP, Peter C. (1940 – 2006) HOWARTH, Glennys (1954 – )
1999The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.
PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )
2001Encylopedia of death and dying. Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman.
HOWARTH, Glennys (1954 – ) LEAMAN, Oliver (1950 – )
2001Aristotle on life and death
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322) KING, R. A. H.
2003A merciful end: The euthanasia movement in modern America.
DOWBIGGIN, Ian Robert (1952 – )
2003Palliative care perspectives.
HALLENBECK, James L.
2005A concise history of euthanasia: Life, death, god, and medicine.
DOWBIGGIN, Ian Robert (1952 – )
2005The modern art of dying: A history of euthanasia in the United States.
LAVI, Shai J.
2006Selected writings 1958-2004. Foreward by David Clark.
SAUNDERS, Dame Cicely Mary (1918 – 2005) CLARK, David (1953 – )
2007Medicine and the care of the dying: A modern history.
LEWIS, Milton James
2007Encyclopédie sur la mort: La mort et la mort volontaire à travers les pays et les âges.
VOLANT, Éric Gustave (1926 – 2013)
2007Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.
EBENSTEIN, Joanna
2008This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
FAUST, Catharine Drew Gilpin (1947 – )
2009Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.
WOODS, Robert Ivor (1949 – 2011)