2010–2019

2017 CE

#13672

Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890.

2017 CE

#13721

History of social media in surgery.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Logghe, McFadden, Tully, Jones. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.

2017 CE

#13910

Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.

2017 CE

#14102

The role of the WI-38 cell strain in saving lives and reducing morbidity.

In 1961 "Hayflick developed the first normal human diploid cell strains for studies on human aging and for research use throughout the world. Prior to his seminal research, all cultured cell lines were immortal and an…

2017 CE

#14201

Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination.

Prior to their development of the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, Karikó and Weissman (Nobel Prize 2023) and colleagues used a novel mRNA vaccine, with base modifications created in their laboratory, to generate a p…

2017 CE

#14347

Vertigo: Five physician scientists and the quest for a cure.

Concerns the work of Prosper Ménière, Josef Breuer, Robert Bárány, Charles Hallpike, and Harold Schuknecht.

2018 CE

#9604

Lelamour herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r-57r): An annotated critical edition by David Moreno Olalla.

First critical edition of the sole extant copy of the Middle English herbal written in 1373 by John Lelamour, a Herefordian schoolmaster, who is otherwise unknown.

2018 CE

#9613

GALEN: Hygiene. Books 1-4, Books 5-6. Thrasybulus on exercise with a small ball. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston. 2 vols.

2018 CE

#9711

Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.

Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…

2018 CE

#9792

The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.

2018 CE

#9959

CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…

2018 CE

#10121

Digital health: Scaling healthcare to the world. Edited by Homero Rivas and Katarzyna Wac.

Probably the first book published on "digital health." "This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It p…

2018 CE

#10145

Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past.

2018 CE

#10186

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

2018 CE

#10188

A platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health: Strategic plan 2017-2027. Report of the NLM Board of Regents.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/plan/lrp17/NLM_StrategicReport2017_2027.html "The strategic plan focuses on three essential, interdependent goals that will help guide the Library’s priorities over the next 10 years…

2018 CE

#10262

Animals and the shaping of modern medicine: One health and its histories.

A pioneering effort to draw the connections between the development of veterinary medicine and the development of medicine in general. With an extensive annotated bibliography.

2018 CE

#10425

Belonging on an island: Birds, extinction, and evolution in Hawai'i.

2018 CE

#10476

Suffering scholars: Pathologies of the intellectual in Enlightenment France.

2018 CE

#10525

The medical imagination: Literature and health in the early United States.

"... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and…

2018 CE

#10533

Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .

Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.

2018 CE

#10540

Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud.

"... discusses interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the Persian translation movement of Ayurvedic sources that took place from the fourte…

2018 CE

#10543

The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A worldwide descriptive census, ownership, and annotations of the 1543 and 1555 editions.

Detailed bibliographical information, ownership records, and worldwide census, including description of the handwritten annotations in the surviving copies of the first two editions of Vesalius's De humani corporis fa…

2018 CE

#10544

The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery. Edited by Thomas Schlich.

24 chapters on the history of a wide variety of aspects of general surgery, and of the history of various surgical specialties, by 24 authorities. The work is divided into three parts: 1. Periods and Topics, 2. Links,…

2018 CE

#10594

Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It also summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. "A …

2018 CE

#10622

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

2018 CE

#10626

The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,

Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…

2018 CE

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.

2018 CE

#10696

In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.

Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.

2018 CE

#10698

Between hope and fear: A history of vaccines and human immunity.

Both a history of vaccines and immunology and of the anti-vaccination movement.

2018 CE

#10705

It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.

"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same…

2018 CE

#10755

To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.

2018 CE

#10756

PTSD: A short history.

2018 CE

#10776

Piety and patienthood in medieval Islam.

2018 CE

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2018 CE

#10946

The emergence of Zika virus and its new clinical syndromes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pierson, Diamond. Analyzes, and documents with 147 references, the variety of new clinical syndromes, including fetal / in utero effects, caused by the Zika virus. Also…

2018 CE

#11051

Carving a niche: The medical profession in Mexico 1800-1870.

2018 CE

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.

2018 CE

#11113

William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.

This is probably the most beautiful book published on the wide range of William Hunter's collecting that forms the Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Collection in Glasgow University Library.

2018 CE

#11125

The madness of fear: A history of catatonia.

2018 CE

#11382

Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600–1700.

"How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole e…

2018 CE

#11436

The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.

2018 CE

#11461

Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Stewart, Ajami, O'Brien....This study confirmed that "breastfeeding was associated with higher levels of Bididofacterium species" (a very desirable organism), and that …

2018 CE

#11474

Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.

2018 CE

#11480

Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signaling interference.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Piewngam, Zheng, Nguygen....The authors discovered a mechanism by which probiotics help maintain a healthy microbiome. They showed that Bacillus subtilis can produce a …

2018 CE

#11610

The history of wine as a medicine: From its beginnings in China to the present day.

2018 CE

#11621

The mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of medicine.

Fascinating stories well told, and frequently with a great sense of humor!

2018 CE

#11664

Caring for equality: A history of African American health and healthcare.

2018 CE

#11831

Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.

2018 CE

#11927

Life is short, art long: The art of healing in Byzantium. New perspectives. Edited by Brigitte Ptarakis and Gülru Tanman.

2018 CE

#11938

The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.

Showcases the work of forty-six scholars from around the world, and comprises an Introduction followed by forty-nine chapters, concluded with a general index. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography featuring multi…