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- Anatomy & Pathology 111
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823 entries match Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1969 CE–1975 CE
#6786.15
The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. 2 parts.
The library of F.J. Cole (see No. 356). Part 1: 1472-1800 to the present day and Supplement to Part 1.
1876 CE–1878 CE
#2227
The collected works. 2 vols.
Latham, successively physician to Middlesex and St. Bartholomew’s hospitals, was an authority on cardiac disease and among the earliest in England to advocate auscultation. He held progressive views on medical e…
1992 CE
#9264
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
1943 CE
#1666
The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
Reprinted 1980.
2017 CE
#12372
The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…
2015 CE
#10620
The courtiers' anatomists: Animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris.
2016 CE
#9257
The culture of food in England 1200-1500.
2008 CE
#7569
The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.
1948 CE
#1669
The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.
1997 CE
#11822
The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.
1954 CE
#6785.1
The development of medical bibliography.
A historical study; includes a list of 255 medical bibliographies published since 1500. Reprinted 1981.
1936 CE
#6433
The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.
Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.
1940 CE
#1664
The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
1896 CE
#444.1
The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.
First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers…
2009 CE
#7715
The discovery of hypnosis: The complete writings of James Braid, the father of hypnotherapy. Edited with detailed prefatory essays by Donald Robertson.
1982 CE
#3979.1
The discovery of insulin.
1955 CE
#2137.01
The diseases of occupations.
A classic textbook on the subject with valuable historical chapters and references. Hunter put the text through six editions to 1978. The work was rewritten as Hunter’s Diseases of occupations, ed. by P.A.B. Raf…
1953 CE
#6623.01
The doctor and the devils.
The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenpla…
2012 CE
#9330
The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.
1994 CE
#10849
The early homosexual rights movement (1864–1935).
Revised edition, 1995.
1939 CE
#1092.51
The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.
Revised edition, 1958.
1979 CE
#13788
The eradication of smallpox from India.
1963 CE
#5546.7
The evolution and eradication of infectious diseases.
1925 CE
#454
The evolution of anatomy. A short history of anatomical and physiological discovery to Harvey.
This invaluable reference book was reprinted under the title A short history of anatomy and physiology from the Greeks to Harvey, Dover, 1957.
1921 CE
#6414
The evolution of modern medicine. A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.
The final text of these lectures, which Osler characterized as "an aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages," remained unfinished at Osler’s death, and Osler requested in his will that thi…
2009 CE
#12144
The evolution of obesity.
1882 CE
#1571
The experimental method in medical science.
Dalton, Professor of Physiology at the universities of Buffalo and Vermont, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, was the first American to devote his time exclusively to that subject. He was present a…
1992 CE
#6953
The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration.
An essential reinterpretation of the classics in the history of anatomical illustration, with many fine plates.
1946 CE
#2237.01
The face in health and disease.
1995 CE
#7029
The facts of life: The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.
2015 CE
#7637
The fate of anatomical collections.
A collective work, edited by Knoeff and Zwijenberg, which includes several chapters of great interest. Relevant to the history of John Hunter's museum see Andrew Cunningham, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Ri…
2017 CE
#10694
The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.
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…
2009 CE
#11313
The finger of God: Anatomical practice in seventeenth-century Leiden.
2000 CE
#8360
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.
1849 CE
#14
The genuine works of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams. 2 vols.
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Francis Adams, surgeon of Banchory, Scotland, prepared this partial translation to acquaint his contemporaries with “the opinions of an author, whom I verily believe to be the highest exemplar of professional ex…
1996 CE
#12748
The geography of perversion: Male-To-male sexual behavior outside the West and the ethnographic imagination, 1750-1918.
"Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of …
2016 CE
#13089
The germ of an idea: Contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730.
"Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London…
2012 CE
#7711
The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. Edited by Jane Buikstra & Charlotte Roberts.
1999 CE
#9113
The gospel of germs: Men, women, and the microbe in American life.
2004 CE
#9974
The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
1951 CE
#6785
The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.
1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner. 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography. 3. Medical Subject…
2007 CE
#11464
The great nation in decline: Sex, modernity and health crises in revolutionary France c.1750–1850.
1996 CE
#14050
The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.
2006 CE
#8780
The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.
2006 CE
#8035
The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs.
1997 CE
#7069
The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity.
1995 CE
#13655
The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn
1982 CE
#12492
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
2015 CE
#8431