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1959Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian.
KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943) DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006)
1961Nicolás Bautista Monardes: Su vida y su obra, ca. 1493-1588.
MONARDES, Nicolás Bautista (1493 – 1588) GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
1964Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.
O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970)
VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
1966Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology. 5 vols.
MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628 – 1694)
MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628 – 1694) ADELMANN, Howard Bernhardt (1898 – 1988)
1966The life of William Harvey.
HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657)
HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
1969Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
1974The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
BAGLIVI, Giorgio (1668 – 1707)
BAGLIVI, Giorgio (1668 – 1707) SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989)
1974The Darwin correspondence project.
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
1982Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840) FITZPATRICK, T. J. BOEWE, Charles Ernest (1924 – 2016)
1983The dentist and the empress: The adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in gas-lit Paris.
EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897)
CARSON, Gerald Hewes (1899 – 1989)
CARSON, Gerald Hewes (1899 – 1989)
1985A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823
JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823)
JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823) LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)
1986The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) OGDEN, Henry Vining (1857 – 1931) WEISTROP, Leonard
1987Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century
DOCK, George (1860 – 1951) DAVENPORT, Horace Willard (1913 – 2005)
1991Max Brödel, The man who put art into medicine
BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941) CROSBY, Ranice W. (1915 – 2007) CODY, John (1925 – 2016)
1994I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.
WOLFE, Richard J. MENCZER, Leonard F. (1917 – 1994)
1994Order out of chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's coming of age.
BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913) CHAPMAN, Carelton B. (1915 – 2000)
1995The private science of Louis Pasteur.
PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895) GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)
1995Charcot: Constructing neurology
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893) GELFAND, Toby (1942 – ) GOETZ, Christopher G. BONDUELLE, Michel
1998The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826)
LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826) DUFFIN, Jacalyn Mary (1950 – )
1998Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor
ABBOTT, Anderson Ruffin (1837 – 1913)
ABBOTT, Anderson Ruffin (1837 – 1913)
1999William Osler: A life in medicine.
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
1999Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, a Fifteenth-Century Armenian Natural Historian and Physician.
VARDANYAN, Stella Armenaki (1934 – ) AMASIATSI, Amirdovlat (1420 – 1496)
1999The saint.
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
NULAND, Sherwin Bernard (1930 – 2014)
NULAND, Sherwin Bernard (1930 – 2014)
2001Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy
MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819 – 1868)
MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819 – 1868) WOLFE, Richard J.
2002"Dearest G ...Yours WO." William Osler's letters from Egypt to Grace Revere Osler. Edited by Lawrence D. Long and Philip M. Teigen.
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919) LONGO, Lawrence D. (1926 – 2016) TEIGEN, Philip M.
2003La medicina en el exilio republicano.
GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
2003Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world
FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022)
FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022) KIDDER, John Tracy (1945 – )
2004Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist
SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934)
SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934) WOLFE, Richard J. DOLMAN, Claude Ernest (1906 – 1994)
2005Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician
FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611)
FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611) KASSELL, Lauren
2006Dr. Franklin's medicine
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790) FINGER, Stanley
2007Charles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America
WOLFE, Richard J.
JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880) PATTERSON, Richard
2007Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939) BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
2007The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.
KENNEDY, Pagan (1963 – )
2007Gustaf Retzius: A Biography by Thomas Lindblad. With special contributions by Gunnar Grant, Björn Afzelius, Olle Johansson & Markku Virtanen, Helge Rask-Andersen, Torstein Sjøvold. Editor: Ove Hagelin.
RETZIUS, Magnus Gustaf (1842 – 1919) LINDBLAD, Thomas
2008The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
2009Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.
DEBSCHITZ, Uta von DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
2009Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – )
BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – ) PODOLSKY, Scott Harris (1970 – )
2010Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.
RUYSCH, Frederik (1638 – 1731)
RUYSCH, Frederik (1638 – 1731) KOOIJMANS, Luuc
2010Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
2011Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.
CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906)
CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906)
CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934) REDNISS, Lauren
2012Lincoln and medicine.
SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
2013Fritz Kahn.
DEBSCHITZ, Uta von DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
2014Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.
KELLOGG, John Harvey (1852 – 1943)
KELLOGG, John Harvey (1852 – 1943) WILSON, Brian C.
2015The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
ROOS, Anna Marie
ROOS, Anna Marie
2019Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain
GALL, Franz Joseph (1758 – 1828)
GALL, Franz Joseph (1758 – 1828) FINGER, Stanley ELING, Paulus Alphons Theresia Maria (Paul) (1951 – )
2019Deer Leibarzt des Schah Jacob E. Polak 1818-1891. Eine west-östliche Lebensgeschichte.
POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891)
POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891) GÄCHTER, Afsaneh
2020Sir William Osler: An encyclopedia. Edited by Charles S. Bryan.
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – )
BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – )
2021Augustin Cabanès (1862-1928): Clinicien de l'histoire ou vulgaire anecdotier?
CABANÈS, Augustin (1862 – 1928) HUTIN, Jean-François
2022The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.
MORE, Ellen S.
MORE, Ellen S.
CALDERONE, Mary Steichen (1904 – 1998)
CALDERONE, Mary Steichen (1904 – 1998)
2023Freud's antiquity: Object / Idea / Desire. Exhibition catalogue 25/02/2023 -16/07/2023. Edited by Richard Armstrong, Miriam Leonard, Daniel Orrells, Tom DeRose & Karolina Heller.
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)