Facets

1986 CE

#7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

1904 CE

#7206

Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.

A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…

2013 CE

#7618

An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.

2014 CE

#8160

Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

1928 CE

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

1996 CE

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1974 CE

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

1995 CE

#11900

Biology takes form: Animal morphology and the German universities 1800-1900.

1993 CE

#13187

Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.

2008 CE

#8308

Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.

2006 CE

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

1998 CE

#10477

Enlightenment and pathology: Sensibility in the literature and medicine of eighteenth-century France.

2010 CE

#8027

Fictions of well-being: Sickly readers and vernacular medical writing in late medieval and early modern Spain. Michael

2014 CE

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

1967 CE–1972 CE

#461.2

Geschichte der medizinische Abbildung. 2nd ed. 2 vols.

A history of medical illustration, but primarily covering the history of anatomy. English translation of Vol. 1 (to 1600), London: Pitman, 1970. Vol. 2, edited by Marielene Putscher, extended the work to close to time…

1852 CE

#440

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.

In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…

1974 CE

#6451.8

History of the life sciences. An annotated bibliography.

Over 4,000 annotated citations of works dealing with all aspects of the history of medicine and biology, including a section on individual and collected biographies.

2015 CE

#13186

Insects, hygiene and history.

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.

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…

2007 CE

#8609

My highest pleasure: William Hunter's art collection. Edited by Peter Black.

A beautiful book on Hunter's art collection, and how he assembled it, as well as a study of the representation of art in Hunter's library. The book also describes and illustrates Hunter's collection of anatomical art,…

2004 CE

#10560

Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.

Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …

2003 CE

#9253

Reworking the bench: Research notebooks in the history of science. Edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

Besides the historographical consideration of the value of laboratory notebooks for studying the history of experimentation and discovery, this volume includes studies of notebooks by Galvani, Schwann, Pavlov, Carl Co…

2000 CE

#9392

Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world.

2000 CE

#8680

Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

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.

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…

1996 CE

#7493

The ingenious machine of nature: Four centuries of art and anatomy.

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1979 CE

#8474

The laboratory rat, Volume 1: Biology and disease. Edited by Henry J. Baker, J. Russell Lindsey, Steven H. Weisbroth.

Chapter 1: Historical Foundations by J. Russell Lindsey.

1992 CE

#8054

The Norton history of the environmental sciences.

2020 CE

#13774

The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.

2009 CE

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

1972 CE

#9628

The voyage of the Challenger.