1980–1989
678 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1964
#1588.1
Circulation of the blood: men and ideas.
1980
#366.1
Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.
Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus Englis…
1980
#1588.17
Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas.
1980
#2312.8
Mummies, disease, and ancient cultures.
1980
#3161.5
Blood, pure and eloquent. A story of discovery, of people, and of ideas.
A collective work by 19 authors, edited by M. M. Wintrobe. This is a detailed history of haematology, well documented and well indexed.
1980
#3161.6
The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.
Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.
1980
#3705.2
Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe
Reproduces all the classic Japanese prints that concern the teeth or dentistry. By Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo, and Kuninori Homma.
1980
#3415.22
Histoire des maladies de l’oreille, du nez et de la gorge. Les grandes étapes de l’oto-rhino-laryngologie.
1980
#5145.2
Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.
1980
#6311.7
Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.
1980
#6551.1
Wales and medicine. A source-list for printed books showing the history of medicine in relation to Wales and Welshmen.
1980
#6374.9
Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.
A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.
1980
#6596.4
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.
1980
#6604.31
When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.
Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.
1980
#5434.2
The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.
On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a specimen of v…
1980
#6451.11
Subject catalogue of the history of medicine and related sciences. 18 vols.
Subject section: 9 vols.; Biographical section: 5 vols.; Topographical section: 4 vols. Reproduces the card subject catalogue of the library and includes a cumulation of Current Work in the History of Medicine (No. 64…
1980
#6893
Cloning in single-stranded bacteriophage as an aid to rapid DNA sequencing.
Sanger and colleagues developed the random shotgun method to prepare templates for DNA sequencing. With A. R. Coulson, B. G. Barrell, A. J. H. Smith & B. A. Roe.
1980
#7078
The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.
The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…
1980
#7455
Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophilia.
In 1995 Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward B. Lewis "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development."
1980
#7950
Centenary of Index Medicus: 1879-1979. Edited by John B. Blake.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1980
#7970
The death of nature: Women, ecology and the scientific revolution.
Reprinted with addition of a new preface, 1990.
1980
#8175
Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry: The Dendral project.
1980
#8426
Pelagonii Ars veterinaria. Edited by K. D. Fischer.
1980
#8503
Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.
1980
#8794
The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.
1980
#8988
Evolutionary biology and the treatment of signs and symptoms of infectious disease.
"When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, manifestations of infectious diseases can be classified as (1) adaptations of the host to counteract harmful aspects of the disease, (2) adaptations of the pathogen to ma…
1980
#8999
Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.
1980
#9147
Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.
Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...à …
1980
#9163
Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.
1980 –1990
#9495
Banks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts [plus 1 supplement] of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage around the world in the H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. 35 large folio solander boxes & 1 vol. text.
Banks' Florilegium has been called the largest fine art printing project of the 20th century. It is the first complete publication in color of the 734 folio size copperplate engravings of newly discovered plants colle…
1980
#9747
Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.
1980
#10444
Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.
1980
#10736
The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.
1980
#11057
Detection and isolation of type C retrovirus particles from fresh and cultured lymphocytes of a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Poiesz, Ruscetti,... Gallo. Gallo and associates announced the discovery of a human retrovirus with type C morphology causing a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Gallo named t…
1980
#11209
British natural history books, 1495-1900: A handlist.
A partially annotated listing of all principal natural history books published in the UK from 1495 to 1900.
1980
#11220
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC).
https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) , an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library, seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. The database lists book…
1980
#11257
Preliminary report on the pathogenicity of Legionella pneumophila for freshwater and soil amoebae.
Discovery of the pathogenic relationship between amoebas and Legionella bacteria--a key step in understanding how this bacteria infects mankind. Legionella bacteria, along with amoeba, live in the organic contaminatio…
1980
#11454
Professionalizing modern medicine: Paris surgeons and medical science and institutions in the 18th century.
1980
#11488
The seeds of artificial intelligence: SUMEX-AIM.
A semi-popular and extensively illustrated summary of research on artificial intelligence in medicine at Stanford Medical School as directed by Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanley N. Cohen, Carl Djerassi, and Elliott C. Lev…
1980
#11579
The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.
"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…
1980
#11689
Marey and cardiology: physiologist and pioneer of technology (1830-1904).
1980
#11736
Thomas Willis's Oxford lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.
A biographical introduction proceeds Dewhurst's edition of John Locke's transcripts of Willis's lectures from 1663-64 (Bodleian MS Locke f19) and Richard Lower's notes from the 1661-62 lectures in the Robert Boyle pap…
1980
#12270
Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.
First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.
1980
#12304
Expression of a bacterial gene in mammalian cells.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulligan, Berg.) In an understated paper the authors suggested the potential of treating recessive diseases like Lesch-Nyhan syndrome by gene therapy. (Thanks to Juan …
1980
#12344
Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.
1980
#12388
Purification and characterization of the major allergen from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus-antigen P1.
First purification and publication of a dust mite allergen in 1978 by Platts-Mills and Chapman.
1980
#12916
A history of dentistry in New Zealand.
1980
#12917
The history of old Turkish dentistry.
1980
#12961
Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.
1980
#12962