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2000–2009

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2002

#8879

Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.

Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…

2002

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

2002

#9076

Aristotle: Historia animalium. Volume 1, Books I-X: Text. Edited by D. M. Balme. Prepared for publication by Allan Gotthelf.

Critical edition based on a collation of the 26 known extant manuscripts and a study of the early Latin translations. Begun by Balme in 1975, with his work towards the Loeb editio minor of books VII–X, this edition in…

2002

#9078

Aristotle: On the parts of the animals I-IV. Translated with commentary by James G. Lennox.

2002

#9088

"Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld". Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienmedizin im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Hypnotismus und Heilmagnetismus.

2002

#9188

The structure of evolutionary theory.

A "technical book on macroevolution and the historical development of evolutionary theory.[1] The book was twenty years in the making,[2]published just two months before Gould's death.[3] Aimed primarily at profession…

2002

#9229

Soldiers to the rescue: The medical response to the Pentagon attack. Edited by Sanders Marble and Ellen Milhiser.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

2002

#9432

An ear to the chest: An illustrated history of the evolution of the stethoscope.

2002

#9565

The evolution of the conservation movement, 1850-1920.

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html "documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government…

2002

#9595

Online Archive of California.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ "The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including li…

2002

#9624

Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.

2002

#9685

Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.

2002

#9715

Healing kidney diseases in antiquity: Plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts (A.D. 512-15th Century).

2002

#9788

The history of massage: An illustrated survey from around the world.

2002

#9815

Publishing and medicine in early modern England.

"This book examines the effects of medical publishing on the momentous theoretical and jurisdictional controversies in health care in early modern England. The simultaneous collapse of medical orthodoxy and the contro…

2002

#9825

Expeditions & discoveries: Sponsored exploration and scientific discovery in the modern age.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/index.html "The fourth in a series of online collections from Harvard University, Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as fiel…

2002

#9858

A history of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis.

2002

#10040

Medical police and the history of pubic health.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2002

#10078

The copedologist's cabinet: A biographical and bibliographical history.

"Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a …

2002

#10175

Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.

"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…

2002

#10194

Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".

"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …

2002

#10221

History of human parasitology.

Full text, with extensive bibliography, from PubMedCentral at this link.

2002

#10238

BioDigital.

https://www.biodigital.com/ "The Word's First Human Visualization Platform: Anatomy, Disease & Treatments— all in interactive 3D. Web, Mobile and Augmented Reality "the virtual body as the health equivalent of Google …

2002

#10410

Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.

Medical rituals of the Lacota people.

2002

#10938

The eye of the lynx. Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history.

2002

#10955

A history of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing torches to others.

2002

#11032

Abortion in the ancient world.

2002

#11122

Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

A spectacular color photo-illustrated book on the Mütter Museum.

2002

#11135

A history of neuroradiology (1895-2002). XVIIth Symposium Radiologicum: Paris-France, August 18-24, 2002.

2002 –2005

#11243

The human fossil record. 4 vols.

Vol. 1: Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Europe). Vol. 2: Craniodental morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia). Vol. 3: Brain endocasts—the paleoneurological evidence. Vol. 4: Crandiodental mo…

2002

#11336

Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Gardner, Hall, Fung.... Genome of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite carried by the mosquito that causes malaria in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its i…

2002

#11337

The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Holt, Subramanian, Halpern.... Sequence of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. (Thanks to Juan Weiss…

2002

#11417

Paul Ehrlich's receptor immunology: The magnificent obsession.

2002

#11720

Coffee: A bibliography. A guide to the literature on coffee. 2 vols.

"...listing over 15,000 imprints relating to every aspect of coffee from the past to the present. The principal writings on coffee have been identified and described in light of available source material. Represented …

2002

#12320

Stanford University School of Medicine and the predecessor schools: An historical perspective.

Digital format only, available from lane.stanford.edu at this link: https://lane.stanford.edu/med-history/wilson/chap01.html

2002

#12378

The irritable heart of soldiers and the origins of Anglo-American cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).

2002

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

2002

#12416

One hundred years of heroin. Edited by David F. Musto with the assistance of Pamela Korsmeyer and Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr.

2002

#12439

Microarray-based detection and genotyping of viral pathogens.

First publication of DeRisi's microarray assay for the detection and genotyping of viral pathogens. "To address the limitations of existing viral detection methodologies, we have developed a genomic approach to virus …

2002

#12530

A sourcebook of dental medicine: Being a documentary history of dentistry and stomatology from the earliest times to the middle of the twentieth century.

2002

#12576

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, cancer and history.

"Olson, who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book, provides an absorbing and often frightening narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted…

2002

#12661

The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.

2002

#12901

History of human parasitology.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

2002

#13127

Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.

2002

#13283

Cedars-Sinai: The one-hundred year history of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: 1902-2002.

2002

#13427

Homöopathie in der Klinik: die Geschichte der Homöopathie am Stuttgarter Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus von 1940 bis 1973.

2002

#13447

Guide to William Bartram's travels: Following the trail of America's first great naturalist.

2002

#13461

Origins of neuroscience: A history of explorations into brain function.

2002

#13503

Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany. Origins, practices, legacies. Edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.

2002

#13567

Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.

"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…