2010–2019
887 entries with publication dates in this decade.
2018 CE
#12103
Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …
2018 CE
#12183
Digital medicine, on its way to being just plain medicine.
"There are already nearly 30,000 peer-reviewed English-language scientific journals, producing an estimated 2.5 million articles a year.1 So why another, and why one focused specifically on digital medicine? "To answe…
2018 CE
#12362
Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.
"The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).
2018 CE
#12390
Landmark papers in otolaryngology. Edited by John S. Phillips and Sally Erskine.
2018 CE
#12425
Science and medicine in Imperial Russia. Second edition.
Concerns the development of medicine, chemistry and biology in Russia before the revolution.
2018 CE
#12532
Medieval bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages.
2018 CE
#12538
Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.
"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …
2018 CE
#12560
Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.
Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story…
2018 CE
#12563
Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.
"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…
2018 CE
#12565
Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.
Open source from link.springer.com at this link.
2018 CE
#12566
Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.
The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link.
2018 CE
#12567
Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.
A report from the British Defence Medical Services.
2018 CE
#12614
The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.
2018 CE
#12625
The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
2018 CE
#12636
Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.
Both an historical and a scientific study.
2018 CE
#12668
‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.
2018 CE
#12673
Syrische Astrologie und das Syrische Medizinbuch.
2018 CE
#12681
Poison, medicine, and disease in late medieval and early modern Europe.
"...Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to l…
2018 CE
#12738
Subsystem organization of axonal connections within and between right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei (endbrain).
"Significance "The right and left cerebral hemispheres (together forming the endbrain) support cognition and affect, and, structurally, each hemisphere consists of a cortical sheet and set of deep nuclei (often called…
2018 CE
#12841
Health education films in the twentieth century. Edited by Christian Bonah, David Cantor, Anja Laukötter.
2018 CE
#12878
W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.
2018 CE
#13049
Telemedicine and health technologies: A guide for mental health professionals.
"...Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a practical, comprehensive, and evidence-based guide to patient-centered clinical care delivered in whole or in part by technologi…
2018 CE
#13105
Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: Art, anatomy and printing in the Italian renaissance. Edited by R. F. Canalis and M. Ciavolella.
2018 CE
#13129
Maimonides On coitus. A new parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 11.)
"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large numbe…
2018 CE
#13566
Luminous creatures: The history and science of light production in living organisms.
2018 CE
#13579
Images in Mississippi medicine: A photographic history of medicine in Mississippi
2018 CE
#13584
Eros, Wollust, Sünde. Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit.
2018 CE
#13673
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power. Edited by John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martinez.
"Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea,…
2018 CE
#14032
Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.
2018 CE
#14099
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Paleogenomic study of a single bone fragment from a female hominin found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains of Russia provided "direct evidence for genetic mixture between Neanderthals and Denisovans on at le…
2018 CE
#14146
Cloning of Macaque monkeys by somatic cell nuclear transfer.
The authors at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai reported the first cloning of a non-human primate. Full text available from cell.com at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Liu, Cai..…
2018 CE
#14151
Dynamic basis for dG•dT misincorporation via tautomerization and ionization.
In 1953 Watson and Crick proposed that rarely formed isomers of DNA bases cause spontaneous mutations to occur during the copying of DNA. Such mutations would be easily accommodated because tautomeric mispairs do not …
2018 CE
#14352
Structure and distribution of an unrecognized interstitium in human tissues.
The authors described "the anatomy and histology of a previously unrecognized, though widespread, macroscopic, fluid-filled space within and between tissues, a novel expansion and specification of the concept of the h…
2019 CE
#10768
Jewish medicine and healthcare in Central Eastern Europe: Shared identities and tangled histories. Edited by Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, and Fritz Dross.
2019 CE
#10777
Medicine and religion in the life of an Ottoman sheikh: Al-Damanhuri's "clear statement" on anatomy.
2019 CE
#10912
Novel virus related to Kaposi's Sarcoma associated herpesvirus from Colobus monkey.
Discovery of a new Karposi's Sarcoma virus in monkeys, named CbGHV1. Autopsy showed that the monkey died from a "primary effusion lymphoma" similar to the deaths of humans from human Karposi Sarcoma virus. (Thanks to …
2019 CE
#10913
Kaposi sarcoma in mantled guereza.
Order of authorship in original publication: Grewer, Bleyer, Matz-Rensing. Further work on the CBGHV1 (Colobine gammherpesvirus 1) which causes a pathology in the Colobus monkey very similar to that seen humans. (Than…
2019 CE
#10916
A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…
2019 CE
#11039
Medical practice in twelfth-century China. A translation of Xu Shuwei's Ninety discussion [cases] on cold damage disorders by Asaf Goldschmidt.
"An annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) – which was the first such c…
2019 CE
#11056
A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.
A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…
2019 CE
#11073
The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.
A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."
2019 CE
#11080
Brill's companion to the reception of Galen. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
This collective work shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticized across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe …
2019 CE
#11274
Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain
2019 CE
#11367
Allied medicine in the Great War: The medical front and the people who fought.
2019 CE
#11374
A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal …
2019 CE
#11389
Trepanation, trephining and craniotomy: History and stories.
2019 CE
#11398
Pathogen genomics in public health.
"An important transformation is under way in public health. Next-generation sequencing (also called “high-throughput sequencing”) is reshaping communicable disease surveillance, allowing for earlier detect…
2019 CE
#11400
Artificial intelligence in medicine: Weighing the accomplishments, hype and promise.
2019 CE
#11453
Charcot's studies on hysteria: Five case histories, 1870-1893.
2019 CE
#11460
Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caearian-section birth.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Shao, Forster, Tsaliki....The authors used whole genome sequencing to characterize the microbiota of caesarian babies, demonstrating that caesarian babies were not colo…