Facets

1974 CE

#5019.13

Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.

1987 CE

#9106

Breasts, bottles and babies: A history of infant feeding.

2019 CE

#11080

Brill's companion to the reception of Galen. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser.

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 …

2015 CE

#10556

Brought to Light: Stories from UCSF Archives & Special Collections.

https://blogs.library.ucsf.edu/broughttolight/

1996 CE

#11852

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.

The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…

1907 CE–1951 CE

#11297

Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums, Vols. 1-32. Edited by Maude E. Abbott, Alfred Scott Warthin, and others.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2019 CE

#12407

Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.

"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…

1928 CE

#2652

Cancer and heredity.

By selective breeding over a period of 15 years, Slye produced generations of mice absolutely resistant to, or particularly susceptible to, cancer. She demonstrated that resistance is a Mendelian dominant and suscepti…

2014 CE

#11346

Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.

2017 CE

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

2018 CE

#11051

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

1958 CE–1961 CE

#8744

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

1952 CE–1959 CE

#11439

Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. 5 vols.

This fully annotated catalogue of nearly 5000 items from the library of the U.S. President, while unillustrated, is perhaps the finest and most detailed annotated bibliographical catalogue of the library of any scient…

1989 CE

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1995 CE

#11023

Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.

Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…

1980 CE

#6374.9

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.

1465 CE

#6819

Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)

In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…

1927 CE

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

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…

1983 CE

#10472

Challenging man-made disease.

Hardy's "studies on beryllium began in 1945 when she started working for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Medicine. She studied factories that produced fluorescent bulbs in Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, Massachu…

2005 CE

#11335

Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…

2013 CE

#10712

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood: Popular medicine, child health and victorian culture .

1996 CE

#9162

Chasing dirt: The American pursuit of cleanliness.

"Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies…

2006 CE

#11041

Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…

1947 CE

#1940

Chloromycetin, an antibiotic with chemotherapeutic activity in experimental rickettsial and viral infections.

Introduction of chloramphenicol, used in treatment of typhus.

1974 CE

#7009

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

2008 CE

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

1952 CE

#3108.1

Christmas disease, a condition previously mistaken for haemophilia.

Christmas disease, hemophilia B, due to lack of Factor IX. Named after the patient whose case was the first recorded example. With six co-authors.

1856 CE

#13464

Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays.

Foote was the first scientist known to have experimented on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases. In this two-page paper she theorized that changing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere woul…

2015 CE

#9000

Civil War nurse narratives 1863-1870.

Examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, including Louisa May Alcott, Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hos…

1980 CE

#8999

Civil war nurse: The diary and letters of Hannah Ropes. Edited with an introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt.

2020 CE

#11877

Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Al-Shayeb, Sachdeva, Chen.... Doudna. Open access, available from nature.com at this link. This paper was a collaboration of about 50 scientists of diverse regions and …

2021 CE

#14318

Coming home: How midwives changed birth.

1928 CE

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1940 CE

#5224

Complement-fixation test in lymphogranuloma venereum.

Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum by complement-fixation test. With G. W. Rake and M. F. Shaffer.

1998 CE

#11342

Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1960 CE

#12221

Complete replacement of the mitral valve. Successful clinical application of a flexible polyurethane prosthesis.

Braunwald was the first woman to perform open heart surgery. She was the first woman surgeon certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and the first woman elected to the American Association for Thoracic Su…

1999 CE

#10429

Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.

"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named …

1927 CE

#2856

Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.

1947 CE

#2878

Congenital malformations of the heart.

This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…

2003 CE

#10709

Conjoined twins: An historical, biological and ethical issues encyclopedia.

2011 CE

#10702

Consilioque manuque: La chirurgia nei manoscritti della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Edited by Donatella Lippi.

1973 CE

#257.5

Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.

Cohen, Boyer and associates developed the first practical method for cloning genes, by the formation of recombinant plasmids which can be used to infect plasmid-free bacteria. The authors demonstrated that if DNA is f…

1923 CE

#1641.2

Contraception (birth control). Its theory, history and practice. A manual for the medical and legal professions.

The first formal handbook on birth control.

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1994 CE

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1885 CE

#4748

Contribution à l’étude des paralysies radiculaires du plexus brachial.

First description of atrophic paralysis of the muscles of the hand following lesion of the brachial plexus and eighth cervical and first dorsal nerves (“Klumpke’s paralysis”).

2007 CE

#11843

CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes.

Horvath and his team provided key details of the extremely complex mechanisms involved in CRISPR's function as an immune system for bacteria against bacteriophages. Analogous to Pasteur's heroic role in saving the Fre…

2015 CE

#11864

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes.

This paper was rejected by both Nature and Science partly for "ethical objections." When published it immediately triggered worldwide controversy among scientists and the public. This was the first application of the …

1964 CE

#2660.17

Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of…