1990–1999
810 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1990
#12077
Otolaryngology: An illustrated history.
Second edition by Weir and Albert Mudrey, Otorhinolarygngology: An illustrated history, Ashford, UK: Headley Brothers, 2013.
1990
#12301
Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Kandler, Wheelis.) Introduction of the three-domain biological classification system that divides cellular life into three forms or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, …
1990
#12334
Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.
1990
#12453
Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-1850.
1990
#12468
Génération pilule.
Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
1990
#12585
"Heal the sick" was their motto: The Protestant medical missionaries in China.
1990
#12649
One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.
1990
#13343
The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.
1990
#13391
The condom industry in the United States.
1990
#13514
A history of human helminthology.
1990
#13555
Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.
"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…
c. 1990
#13586
Casey A. Wood Collection: Complete inventory list. P145.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/33597385/casey-a-wood-collection-osler-library-archives-mcgill-university "This is a guide to one of the collections held by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill …
1990
#13949
A novel mediator between activator proteins and the RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus.
Kornberg discovered that transmission of gene regulatory signals to the RNA polymerase machinery is accomplished by an additional protein complex dubbed the Mediator. As noted by the Nobel Prize committee, "the great …
1990
#13966
Linkage of early-onset familial breast cancer to Chromosome 17q21.
King showed that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein, a protein that in humans is encoded by the BRAC1 gene. BRCA1 is a human tumor suppressor gene (also …
1990
#14237
Historical atlas of crystallography.
1990
#14340
Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.
1990
#14340
Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.
Working in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one targ…
1991
#6786.35
Heirs of Hippocrates. The development of medicine in a catalogue of historic books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, The University of Iowa
Describes with detailed historical notes over 2300 books in the John Martin Rare Book Room, chiefly donated to the library by John Martin (1904-1996). The books are arranged chronologically by date of the author’s bir…
1991
#6786.36
The Haskell F. Norman library of science and medicine. 2 vols.
Fully annotated descriptions, mostly with complete collations, paginations, and plate counts, of 2600 classics covering the spectrum of the sciences, emphasizing medicine, from circa 1470 to 1950, in the library of Ha…
1991
#6886
Complementary DNA sequencing: "expressed sequence tags" and the human genome project.
Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) for DNA sequencing. By Adams, M.D., Kelley, J.M., Gocayne, J.D., Dubnick, M., Polymeropoulos, M.H., Xiao, H., Merril, C.R., Wu, A., Olde, B., Moreno, R., Kerlavage, A.R., McCombie, W.R.,…
1991
#7333
Foundations of the neuron doctrine.
1991 –2007
#7415
A history of medicine. 6 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…
1991
#7514
Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.
1991
#7516
Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations.
A collection of essays by various scholars. Editors also included M.E. van Opstall and F. Vos.
1991
#7718
Human cross-sectional anatomy: Atlas of body sections and CT images.
1991
#7765
Asceticism and healing in ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist monastery.
1991
#8022
Medical support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1965-1970.
Available as a PDF from www.history.army.mil at this link.
1991
#8125
Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.
1991
#8138
Telepresence: Dextrous procedures in a virtual operating field.
The first teleoperated surgery. Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the first prototype of a telesurgery robot was developed at Stanford Research International (SRI) (Menlo Park, CA) and called the Green Telepresence…
1991
#8298
Mediaeval prognosis and astrology: A working edition of the [anonymous] Aggregationes de crisi et creticis diebus, with introduction and English summary by Cornelius O'Boyle
This pre-Galenic astrological text by an unknown author from the later part of the 13th century concerns astrological prognostication. It was based upon Book III of Galen's De diebus criticis, but provided a "handy sh…
1991
#8343
A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.
"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…
1991
#8412
Romantic medicine and John Keats.
1991
#8627
Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
1991
#8650
Milestones in leukemia research and therapy.
Freireich was part of the team that first introduced combined-drug cancer chemotherapy in 1965.
1991
#8774
History of transplantation: Thirty-five recollections.
1991
#8895
Le médecin et la médecine dans le théatre comique français du XVIIe siecle. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).
1991
#8959
Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.
1991
#8990
The dawn of Darwinian medicine.
"While evolution by natural selection has long been a foundation for biomedical science, it has recently gained new power to explain many aspects of disease. This progress results largely from the disciplined applicat…
1991
#9096
Galen on the therapeutic method. Books I and II. Translated with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.
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First translation into a modern language of Books ! and II of De methodo medendi. Very extensive introduction, commentary and bibliography.
1991
#9154
From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.
1991
#9262
Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
1991
#9311
The picture of health: Images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand collection. Commentaries by William H. Helfand. Essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards.
1991
#9356
A history of regeneration research: Milestones in the evolution of a science. Edited by Charles E. Dinsmore.
1991
#9362
Edizione nazionale delle opere di Antonio Vallisneri.
This is an ongoing project with many volumes and many editors and several publishers. The number of volumes already published, and planned volumes was unclear in May 2017 when I wrote this entry. Further information i…
1991
#9456
An introduction to the medical history of Ethiopia.
1991
#9673
Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
1991
#9760
A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.
"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…
1991
#9851
A history of experimental virology. Translated by Elvira Reckendorf.
1991
#9940
Mechanisms and functions of cell death.
Horvitz and colleagues identified several key components in the molecular pathway of programmed cell death, including: EGL-1, a protein which activates apoptosis by inhibiting CED-9.
1991
#10011