Facets

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…

1997 CE

#8226

Corpus Hippocraticum: Verzeichnis der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Schriften.

Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf

1722 CE

#1728

Corpus juris medico-legale.

This reprints Valentini’s Pandectae medico legales (1701) and Novellae medico-legales (1711) with the addition of Authentica iatro-forensia.

1968 CE

#11751

Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)

1905 CE

#1755

Criminal responsibility.

2006 CE

#13693

Criminels and their scientists: The history of criminology in international perspective. Edited by Richard F. Wetzell and Peter Becker.

1902 CE

#2129

Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.

A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1977 CE

#7074

Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.

A collective work edited by West and Walk.

1947 CE

#7892

Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Quellen.

English version: Doctors of infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes, translated from German by Heinz Norden. With statements of 3 American authorities identified with the Nuremberg medical trial and a note on med…

1895 CE

#10353

Das Recht auf den Tod. Sociale Studie.

This work is considered the starting point for a broad philosophical discussion on euthanasia in the German-speaking world. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1495 CE

#1758.1

De cautelis medicorum.

The first practical treatise on medical ethics. "Following opening remarks on the ideal conduct of the physician, and his duties towards his patients, their relatives, and his own colleagues while avoiding the pervers…

1483 CE

#6813

De divisione librorum Galeni IN: Articella seu Opus artis medicinae.

Considering the central importance of Galen's writings in medicine from the time he wrote well through the sixteenth and even the seventeenth century, and the need for physicians to make sense of such a large number o…

1667 CE

#1723

De gemellis et partu numerosiore.

Medico-legal aspects of multiple births. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1856 CE

#11072

De l'homicide et de l'anthropophagie.

One of the earliest works on cannibalism, and probably the first work to combine a discussion of homicide and cannibalism from the medical viewpoint. The author, who was very widely read on these subjects, searched fo…

1882 CE

#11160

De l’homicide commis par les enfants.

Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1481 CE

#6929

De natura hominis. Add: De victu; De tuenda valetudine; Medicinae lex; Iusiurandum; Demonstratio quod artes sunt; Invectiva in obtrectatores medicinae. Tr: Andreas Brentius.

The writings of Hippocrates began to appear in print in the 1480s, and only a few of the works attributed to Hippocrates were printed in the 15th century. Though the date of this edition is unstated within the book it…

1600 CE

#6144.1

De natura partus octomestris adversus vulgatam opinionem libri decem ... In quo absolutissima de humani partus natura cognitio traditur; nimirum de conceptione, articulatione, maturitate, de partuum numero, pariendique terminis ac temporibus; utrum ante septimum mensem, ac post decimum, undecimique initium partus naturaliter edi possit. De septimestri, nonomestri, decimestri, undecimestrique partu, deque veris horum omnium causis plenissime Aristotele duce disputatur ... Item ejusdem auctoris compendiosa de eodem partu disceptatio ...

An encyclopedic work on ancient and contemporary medical, scientific and juridical opinion on premature birth and the period of gestation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1602 CE

#1719

De relationibus medicorum libri quatuor. In quibus ea omnia, quae in forensibus, ac publicis causis medici referre solent, plenissime traduntur.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1689 CE

#1726

De renunciatione vulnerum, seu vulnerum lethalium examen.

“The best work on fatal injuries, with frequent references of medicolegal importance” (Nemec).

1597 CE

#1718

De vitiis vocis libri duo. In quibus non solum vocis definitio traditur, et explicatur, sed illius differentiae, instrumenta, et causae aperiuntur. Vltimo de vocis conseruatione, praeseruatione, ac vitiorum eius curatione tractatur. Opus ad vtilitatem concionatorum praecipuè editum. Cui accedit consilium de raucedine ac methodus testificandi in quibusuis casibus medicis oblatis, postquam formulae quaedam testationum proponantur.

Codronchi's Methodus testificandi, inquibusvis casibus medicis oblatis first published in the above (pp. 148-232), is considered the earliest significant work on forensic medicine. Digital facsimile from Google Books …

c. 1839 CE

#10003

Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning unmasked; or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheese-mongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles: with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of the pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers. New edition

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2014 CE

#10043

Death before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.

"Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 19…

2012 CE

#10345

Death, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.

1981 CE

#10045

Defining death: A report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1855 CE

#1742

Deformities after fractures.

Hamilton was a medical inspector of the U.S. Army and later became Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital. See No. 4420.

1845 CE

#10349

Déontologie médicale ou des devoirs et des droits des médecins dans l'état actuel de la civilisation.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1827 CE

#14285

Der Leichnam des Menschen in seinen physischen Verwandlungen nach Beobachtungen und Versuchen.

The human corpse in its physical transformations according to observations and experiments.

1854 CE

#8892

Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique et de salubrité ou répertoire de toutes les questions relatives à la santé publique, considérées dans leurs rapports avec les subsistances, les épidémies, les professions, les établissements et institutions d'hygiène et de salubrité, complété par le texte des lois, décrets, arrêtés, ordonnances et instructions qui s'y rattachen. 3 vols.

For the second edition (1862) Tardieu expanded the work to 4 volumes. Tardieu described the terrible working conditions of children in factories and mines. He also reported the ill consequences of theses conditions on…

1868 CE

#1746

Die gerichtlich-chemische Ermittelung von Giften in Nahrungsmitteln, Luftgemischen, Speiseresten, Körpertheilen, etc.

Dragendorff, Professor of Pharmacy at Dorpat, Marburg, and Vienna, contributed an important book on forensic chemistry. He was responsible for the introduction of several methods for the detection of poisons in the hu…

2015 CE

#10034

Die Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.

Translated into English by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub as A history of palliative care, 1500-1970: Concepts, practices, and ethical challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017).

1981 CE

#8033

Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.

2018 CE

#10121

Digital health: Scaling healthcare to the world. Edited by Homero Rivas and Katarzyna Wac.

Probably the first book published on "digital health." "This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It p…

2007 CE

#13304

Disability in Islamic law.

1908 CE

#10392

Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1630 CE

#1721

Disputatio medica de notis virginitatis.

Details the methods of previous and contemporary writers concerning the determination of virginity. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1993 CE

#8000

Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.

1901 CE

#1754

Eine Methode zur Unterscheidung der verschiedenen Blutarten, im besonderen zum differentialdiagnostischen Nachweise des Menschenblutes.

Uhlenhuth was the first to use precipitins in medico-legal tests for human blood.

1788 CE

#1733

Elements of medical jurisprudence.

First textbook in English on medical jurisprudence.

1836 CE

#1738

Elements of medical jurisprudence.

The standard English work on the subject for generations, translated, expanded and used worldwide; thirteenth edition, Principles and practice of medical jurisprudence, appeared in 1984. Digital facsimile of the first…

1823 CE

#1735

Elements of medical jurisprudence. 2 vols.

First notable American text on forensic medicine.

1836 CE

#10352

Enchiridion medicum, oder Anleitung zur medizinischen Praxis. Vermächtniss einer fünfzigjärigen erfahrung.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by Caspar Bruchhausen and Robert Nelson as Manual of the practice of medicine: The result of fifty years' experience. London: Hippolyte Baii…

2014 CE

#8131

Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 4th edition. Edited by Bruce Jennings. 6 vols.

2007 CE

#10346

Encyclopédie sur la mort: La mort et la mort volontaire à travers les pays et les âges.

http://agora.qc.ca/thematiques/mort/

1897 CE

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2000 CE

#8061

Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.

2012 CE

#12676

Epidemics in context: Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.

1690 CE

#1727

Erörterung und Erläuterung der Frage: Ob es ein gewiss Zeichen wenn, eines todten Kindes Lunge im Wasser untersincket, dass solches in MutterLeiber gestorben sey? Zu Rettung seiner Ehre in Druck befördert.

Swammerdam’s discovery that the fetal lungs will float on water if respiration has taken place was first put to practical use by Schreyer, who thereby secured the acquittal of a girl accused of infanticide.

1867 CE

#1745

Etude médico-légale et clinique sur l’empoisonnement.

1856 CE

#13687

Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.

Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…

1870 CE

#13688

Étude médico-légale sur la pendaison, la strangulation, les suffocations.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.