Facets

1935 CE–1937 CE

#6429

Kulturgeschichte der Heilkunde.

1954 CE

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

1906 CE

#1652

L’hygiène publique à travers les âges.

1950 CE

#9030

La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.

1994 CE

#7547

La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.

Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

1874 CE

#9592

La médecine en France, hommes et doctrines depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours; avec introduction, notes et supplément par A[uguste] Le Pileur. Ouvrage publié sur la dernière édition de l'Histoire des français des divers états, couronnée deux fois par l'Académie française.

One of the pioneer histories of medicine in France. "He [Monteil] boasted of having been the first to write really 'national' history, and he wished further to show this in a memoir entitled L'Influence de l'histoire …

1995 CE

#9929

La nutrition préhistorique.

1642 CE

#8956

La presence des absens; ou facile moyen de rendre présent au médecin l'estat d'un malade absent. Dressé par les docteurs en médecine consultans charitablement à Paris pour les pauvres malades.

Renaudot, physician, philanthropist and journalist, published this self-diagnostic handbook so that charity patients could communicate with their physicians by correspondence. Digital facsimile from biusante.paris.des…

1988 CE

#9109

La prostitution médiévale.

Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but we…

2008 CE

#10732

La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).

1954 CE

#9031

La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.

1987 CE

#9101

Law, sex and Christian society in medieval Europe.

."...explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a compre…

2003 CE

#9601

Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.

1991 CE

#8959

Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.

1836 CE–1838 CE

#2217

Leçons sur les phénomènes physiques de la vie. 4 vols.

Magendie, pioneer experimental physiologist, regarded pathology as only a modification of physiology, “medicine the physiology of the sick man”. By him clinical medicine was reconstructed on physiological …

1843 CE

#2219

Lectures on the principles and practice of physic. 2 vols.

First published in the Medical Times & Gazette, 1840-42, Watson’s famous lectures appeared in book form and formed the most important treatise of medicine for a quarter-century. Watson wrote in a fine style, and…

1988 CE

#11255

Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.

Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.

1845 CE

#6384

Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.

As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.

1999 CE

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

2006 CE

#7924

Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.

1987 CE

#7870

Les historiens français de la médecine au XIXe siècle et leur bibliographie.

1983 CE

#12308

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

2010 CE

#9661

Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.

Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

2012 CE

#11149

Les origines de la sexologie (1850-1900).

2007 CE

#12988

Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.

1490 CE

#47

Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.

This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…

1997 CE

#10169

Life in the balance: Emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death.

2006 CE

#8184

Locating medical history: The stories and their meanings. Edited by Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner.

1884 CE

#1623

London water supply, including a history and description of the London waterworks.

2001 CE

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

2014 CE

#7624

Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

2010 CE

#13377

Magnus Hirschfeld and the quest for sexual freedom. A history of the first international sexual freedom movement

2020 CE

#13128

Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)

"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should…

2004 CE

#7944

Making Kedjom medicine: A history of public health and well-being in Cameroon.

2012 CE

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

2001 CE

#10799

Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.

2006 CE

#7176

Man, medicine, and the state: The human body as an object of government sponsored medical research in the 20th century, edited by Wolfgang U. Eckart.

Chapters on controversial government experimental programs in Senegal, in Germany under the Nazi regime, including in concentration camps and in aerospace research, and also the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in Tuskege…

1882 CE

#11683

Manuel de vivisections.

Extensively illustrated study of methods of conducting experiments involving vivisection.

1999 CE

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

1938 CE

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

1977 CE

#13376

Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings

The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."

2013 CE

#10801

Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American Civil War.

1996 CE

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

1872 CE

#6388

Médecine et médecins.

1981 CE

#6786.23

Medical bibliography in an age of discontinuity.

A history of medical bibliography since World War II, focusing on the information requirements of biomedical research; supplements No. 6785.1

1966 CE

#7120

Medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences. 2nd. edition, revised and enlarged.

This contains useful information not included in the third edition (1990). See No. 6786.34.

1986 CE

#9998

Medical care and the general practitioner 1750-1850.

1883 CE

#1648

Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.

1883 CE

#6390

Medical essays: 1842-1882.

“The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day” (Garrison). Among the essays Holmes chose to include were his works on homeopathy, puerperal fever, and his address at …