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2000–2009

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2000

#10339

Science, race, and religion in the American South. John Bachman and the Charleston circle of naturalists, 1815-1895.

2000

#10433

Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680.

"The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on preventive medicine and on healthy living, and how surgeons worked upon the body and their under…

2000

#10516

The sanitary city: Urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present.

2000

#10670

The Aurelian legacy: British butterflies and their collectors. By Michael A. Salmon with additional material by Peter Marren and Basil Harley.

2000

#10976

Guardians of medical knowledge: The genesis of the Medical Library Association.

Traces the first 50 years of the MLA, from its inception in 1898 in response to the unprecedented expansion of medical literature during the 19th century.

2000

#11092

Asclepius, the god of medicine.

2000

#11184

Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine.

2000

#11445

The biographical dictionary of women in science: Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century.

2000

#11659

Cleavage: Technology, controversy and the ironies of the man-made breast.

2000

#11893

Women's healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and contexts.

The Appendix is Medieval gynecological texts: A handlist. This is "a list of all gynecological texts currently known to me from western Europe written between the 4th and 15th centuries. It includes gynecological exce…

2000

#11937

Plants in archeology: Identification manual of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and Southern Mediterranean to c. 1500.

"This is a practical guide to the identification of vegetative plant materials used from the early prehistoric to c.1500 AD in Europe and the southern Mediterranean. Geographic distribution and archaic names are inclu…

2000

#11981

Cultivation of the bacillus of Whipple's disease.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Raoult, Birg, La Scola. Raoult and colleagues cultured the bacterium causing the systemic digestive tract infection Whipple's disease from a mitral valve of a patient w…

2000

#12133

Chemical biology. Selected papers of H. Gobind Khorana (with introductions).

Khorana edited this selection of his key papers and wrote the introductions to each paper.

2000

#12142

Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.

2000

#12206

The demography of Victorian England and Wales.

2000

#12208

Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.

2000

#12212

Shaping biology: The National Science Foundation and American biological research, 1945-1975.

"Scientists by training, NSF biologists hoped in the 1950s that the new agency would become the federal government's chief patron for basic research in biology, the only agency to fund the entire range of biology—from…

2000 –2015

#12260

Ladies in the laboratory. 4 vols. 1: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research. 2: West European women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions (2004). 3: South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science: Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2010). 4: Imperial Russia's women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research (2015).

2000

#12328

Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.

2000

#12373

Devices and desires: Gender, technology, and American nursing.

"Nursing and technology have been inexorably linked since the beginnings of trained nursing in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Whether or not they thought of the devices they used as technology, nurs…

2000

#12515

The year 1000: Medical practice at the end of the first millennium. Edited by Peregrine Horden and Emile Savage-Smith.

Special issue of: Social history of medicine. Content: The millennium bug : health and medicine around the year 1000 / Peregrine Horden -- The practice of medicine in England about the year 1000 / Audrey Meaney -- Dr.…

2000

#12528

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

2000

#12669

[Comprehensive bibliography of Syriac medicine] in A comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity.

As of 2020 the most comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Medicine that I located online was part of the Comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity in the website of The Center for the Study of Christianity Esta…

2000

#12728

Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.

2000

#13017

The English parson-naturalist: A companionship between science and religion.

2000

#13223

A new and untried course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998.

2000

#13318

The benefits of medical research and the role of the NIH.

According to Senator Mack's report, the economic costs of illness in the U.S. were approximately $3 trillion annually, representing 31% of the nation’s GDP. This included “direct” costs of public and private health ca…

2000

#13428

Heil und Heilung: Geschichte der Laienheilkundigen und Struktur antimodernistischer Weltanschauungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Eugen Wenz (1856-1945).

2000

#13753

The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.

2000

#13883

NDA II. The story of America's second National Dental Association.

2000

#13943

Gene therapy of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)-XI disease.

In 1999, With Marina Cavazzana-Calvo and Salima Hacein-Bey, Fischer achieved the first clinical successes in the world of gene therapies for about ten bubble children,[8] two of whom unfortunately developed leukaemias…

2000

#13952

Structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit.

Ramakrishnan and colleagues determined the complete molecular structure of the 30S subunit of the ribosome and its complexes with several antibiotics. " The Abstract: "Genetic information encoded in messenger RNA is t…

2000

#13953

The structural basis of ribosome activity in peptide bond synthesis.

With Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore. Steitz shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."

2000

#13982

Architecture of RNA polymerase II and implications for the transcription mechanism.

Kornberg devoted two decades to the development of methods to visualize the atomic structure of RNA polymerase and its associated protein components. Initially, Kornberg took advantage of expertise with lipid membrane…

2000

#14073

Three dimensional structure of the Tn5 synaptic complex transposition intermediate.

The authors provided a molecular framework for understanding transposition phenomena at the molecular level, including molecular images at 2.3Å resolution of the Tn5 transposase complexed to its respective Tn5 transpo…

2000

#14079

Historiografía de la psiquiatría española.

"This work contains the bibliographic references of 1,457 published studies (from 1859 to 1997) on the history of Spanish psychiatry in all its aspects: general and local overviews, biographies and pathobiographies, e…

2000

#14293

Cell surface engineering by a modified Staudinger reaction.

In 2022 Carolyn Bertozzi shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal for discovery of click chemistry. Bertozzi invented a biorthogonal variation of Sharpless and Meldal reactions. In th…

2000

#14302

Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA.

Working with the let-7 gene, the authors led by Ruvkun showed that microRNA encoded by the let-7 gene was highly conserved, and present throughout the animal kingdom, proving that gene regulation by microRNA is univer…

2001

#6891

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

Initial draft sequence of the human genome from the publically financed project, involving the coordinated efforts of 20 laboratories and hundreds of people around the world. The full text is available from Nature at …

2001

#6892

The sequence of the human genome.

Initial draft sequence of the human genome by Venter and the staff at Celera Genomics. The full text is available from Science at this link.

2001

#6903

Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy

The most comprehensive biography of Morton, and the most comprehensive account of the ether controversy between Morton and Charles Thomas Jackson.

2001

#7101

A history of blood coagulation.

2001

#7191

Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.

2001

#7275

'Millennium Ancestor', a 6-million-year-old bipedal hominid from Kenya - Recent discoveries push back human origins by 1.5 million years.

Living around 6 million years ago, in the Tugen hills region of central Kenya, this species, named Orrorin tugenensis, had small teeth with thick enamel similar to modern humans. It climbed trees, but also probably wa…

2001

#7279

New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.

In 1998 and 1999, working in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya, Meave Leakey and her team found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old hominin with a mixture of features unseen in other e…

2001 –2008

#7524

An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform. 3 vols.

2001

#7635

Stuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.

2001

#7654

Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

2001

#7776

Bodies politic: Disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.

Social history emphasizing the visual depiction of disease, death and doctors.

2001

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.