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Autobiography

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1791Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui-même, et adressés a son fils; suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pièces, relatives à ce père de la liberté.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
1822Confessions of an opium eater.
DE QUINCEY, Thomas Penson (1785 – 1859)
DE QUINCEY, Thomas Penson (1785 – 1859)
1844Life in the sickroom: Essays by an invalid.
MARTINEAU, Harriet (1802 – 1976)
MARTINEAU, Harriet (1802 – 1976)
1847The works of William Harvey. Translated from the Latin, with a life of the author by Robert Willis.
HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657)
HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657)
WILLIS, Robert (1799 – 1878)
WILLIS, Robert (1799 – 1878)
1856Glances and glimpses; or fifty years social, including twenty years professional life.
HUNT, Harriot Kezia (1805 – 1875)
HUNT, Harriot Kezia (1805 – 1875)
1874The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last Moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
1877Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.
STILL, James (1812 – 1882)
STILL, James (1812 – 1882)
1895Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women; autobiographical sketches.
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1821 – 1910)
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1821 – 1910)
1900Disciples of Aesculapius, with a life of the author by his daughter, Mrs. George Martin. 2 vols.
RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
1905My life: A record of events and opinions. 2 vols.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
1908A mind that found itself.
BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
1912Acromegaly: a personal experience.
MARK, Leonard Portal (1855 – 1930)
1919The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.
CUMMINGS, Bruce Frederick [BARBELLION] (1889 – 1919) WELLS, Herbert George (1866 – 1946)
1923The elephant man and other reminiscences.
TREVES, Sir Frederick (1853 – 1923)
TREVES, Sir Frederick (1853 – 1923)
1931Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.
ELVENES, Lili Ilse (Lili Elbe) (1882 – 1931)
1938Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.
SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
1938The horse and buggy doctor.
HERTZLER, Arthur Emanuel (1870 – 1946)
HERTZLER, Arthur Emanuel (1870 – 1946)
1942Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.
BARKER, Lewellys Franklin (1867 – 1943)
1943Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.
HAMILTON, Alice (1869 – 1970)
HAMILTON, Alice (1869 – 1970)
1962A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910) BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961)
GOLDIE, Sue M.
GOLDIE, Sue M.
1963The journal of James Yonge, Plymouth surgeon (1647-1721). Edited by F. N. L. Poynter.
POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979) YONGE, James (1646 – 1721)
1967Christine Jorgensen: A personal autobiography.
JORGENSEN, Christine (1926 – 1989)
1968The double helix. A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
WATSON, James Dewey (1928 – )
WATSON, James Dewey (1928 – )
1972Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.
FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto (1904 – 1979)
FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto (1904 – 1979)
1974Conundrum.
MORRIS, Jan (1926 – )
MORRIS, Jan (1926 – )
1982The gates of memory.
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
1983Challenging man-made disease.
HARDY, Harriet Louise (1906 – 1993)
1984Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.
BIGELOW, Wilfred Gordon (1913 – 2005)
1986Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
THOMAS, Vivien Theodore (1910 – 1985)
1990One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.
KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993)
1994Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
1995An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness.
JAMISON, Kay Redfield (1946 – )
JAMISON, Kay Redfield (1946 – )
1996​–2018The history of neuroscience in autobiography, edited by Tom Albright and Larry R. Squire. 10 vols.
ALBRIGHT, Thomas D.
SQUIRE, Larry Ryan (1941 – )
SQUIRE, Larry Ryan (1941 – )
1997Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008)
2006A personal history of nuclear medicine.
WAGNER, Henry N. Jr. (1927 – 2012)
2006Inside the space race: A space surgeon's diary.
LAMB, Lawrence E. (1926 – 2015)
2007A life decoded. My genome: My life.
VENTER, John Craig (1946 – )
2014Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
2015On the move: A life.
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
2018The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,
FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )