Facets

2004 CE

#7988

The Hippocratic oath and the ethics of medicine.

2011 CE

#13775

The history and future of bioethics.

2020 CE

#13776

The human gene editing debate.

"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…

1962 CE

#9887

The human skeleton in forensic medicine.

2004 CE

#9996

The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.

1767 CE

#13081

The law of physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries: Containing all the statutes, cases at large, arguments, resolutions, and judgments concerning them. Compiled, by desire of a great personage, for the use of such gentlemen of the faculty as are enemies to quackery, in order to point out the defects in the law, as it now Stands, relative to those professions, and To propose such expedients for remedying them as they shall think necessary, before the next session of parliament, when it is intended to apply for an act for regulating the practice of physick, and suppressing empirical nostrums.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1879 CE

#9028

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2005 CE

#10026

The modern art of dying: A history of euthanasia in the United States.

1874 CE

#7848

The nature of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, and their treatment: Based on a review of the case of the late James Fisk, Jr., in its medico-legal aspects.

Peugnet argued that over-medication, and not the pistol shot, caused Fisk's death. Peugnet, a surgeon who had served in the American Civil War, died at the early age of 43, having been struck by a locomotive while abs…

1992 CE

#9252

The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human rights in human experimentation.

2001 CE

#7894

The Nuremberg medical trial, 1946/47: Transcripts, material of the prosecution and defense, related documents. On behalf of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Edited by Klaus Dörner, Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne in cooperation with Karl Heinz Roth and Paul Weindling. Guide to the microfiche-edition. Compiled by Johannes Eltzschig and Michael Walter. With an introduction to the Trial's history by Angelika Ebbinghaus and short biographies of the participants.

1967 CE

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1970 CE

#10059

The Patient as person: Explorations in medical ethics.

Second edition with a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

1953 CE

#7264

The Piltdown Forgery.

Fiftieth anniversary edition with a new introduction and afterward by Chris Stringer (Oxford University Press, 2003).

1843 CE

#13250

The plea of insanity in criminal cases.

One of the first attempts to outline criteria through which to determine the legitimacy of an insanity plea. The was resolved later in 1843 with the establishment of the M'Naghten Rules, (McNaghten) which this work un…

2002 CE

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

1886 CE

#10350

The relation of hospitals to medical education.

Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2019 CE

#11073

The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.

A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."

1953 CE

#7301

The solution of the Piltdown problem.

Exposure of the Piltdown fraud. Weiner, Oakley and Le Gros Clark found ample evidence of forgery in the Piltdown remains, including the use of artificial abrasion and staining; they also applied fluorine and nitrogen …

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…

1968 CE

#7928

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

1725 CE

#11387

Theatrum medico-juridicum, continens varias easque maxime notabiles tam ad tribunalia ecclesiastico-civilia, quam ad medicinam forensem, pertinentes materias. Ex diversis optimorum authorum ... voluminibus excerptum .... Opus jctis, physicis, practicis, studiosis, chirurgis, aliisque utile et necessarium.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1937 CE–1960 CE

#10200

Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.

Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …

1667 CE

#1724

Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicus de respiratione usuque pulmonum.

Swammerdam’s earliest published work. In it he recorded his discovery that the lungs of newborn infants will float on water if respiration has taken place, an important medico-legal point.

1831 CE

#9954

Traité des exhumations juridiques, et considérations sur les changemens physiques que les cadavres éprouvent en sepourrissant dans la terre, dans l’eau, dans les fosses d’aisance etdans le fumier. 2 vols.

The first book devoted entirely to exhumation and decomposition of bodies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1814 CE–1815 CE

#2072

Traité des poisons tirés des règnes minéral, végétal et animal; ou, toxicologie générale. 2 vols, each in 2 parts.

Orfila, pioneer toxicologist, was the leading medico-legal expert of his time. He was born in Minorca, studied at Valencia, Barcelona, and Paris, and was one of the founders of the Académie de Médecine. …

1850 CE

#9383

Traité théorique et pratique de la méthode anesthésique appliquée a la chirurgie et aux différentes branches de l'art de guérir.

Of particular interest for the introductory chapter 2 on pain produced in surgical operations and chapter 3 on the history of the understanding and attempts at treatment of pain, surgical and otherwise, before ether a…

1777 CE

#10347

Two essays. [Essay I. Of suicide]

Of suicide, "probably the most widely read and most influential philosophical treatment of suicide written in modern times," was written in 1755 and originally intended to be published as one of five essays, including…

1846 CE

#7310

U. S. Patent No. 4848. The United States of America. To all to whom these Letters Patent shall come.... November 12, 1846.

U.S. Patent No. 4848, issued to Charles T. Jackson and William T. G. Morton on November 12, 1846 for the discovery of sulfuric ether as a surgical anesthetic. This was the first truly significant medical patent ever i…

1931 CE

#14209

U. S. Plant patent 1. Climbing or trailing rose. Filed Aug. 6, 1930. Issued Aug. 18, 1931.

This was the first patent granted for a life form. In response to complaints from the nursery industry that the future of the plant breeding industry was jeopardized by the “pirating” of new plant varietie…

1875 CE

#5912

Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.

English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…

1903 CE

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the …

1883 CE

#8176

Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1969 CE–1972 CE

#6841

Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.

First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…

1666 CE

#10343

Ventilabrum medico-theologicum: Quo omnes casus, tum medicos, cum aegros, aliosque concernentes euentilantur, et quod SS.PP. conformius, scholasticis probabilius, & in conscientia tutius est, secernitur ...

An early work on Catholic medical morality. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2002 CE

#7915

Vernichten und Heilen: Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Folgen.

1566 CE

#13060

Vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio. Cum annotationibus Bartholomaei Eustachii . . . Eiusdemque Libellus de Multitudine.

First edition in Latin edited by Eustachi of the glossary to Hippocrates by the first century Greek grammarian Erotianus. Erotianus's work contains the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates, including some now …

2012 CE

#12805

Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.

1930 CE

#13387

What medicine can do for law. The Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine November 1, 1928.

When he delivered this presentation Cardozo was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1832 President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1992 CE

#14149

When medicine went mad: Bioethics and the holocaust. Edited by Arthur L. Caplan.

1995 CE

#7107

Witnessing insanity. Madness and mad-doctors in the English court.

1948 CE–2017 CE

#10356

WMA Declaration of Geneva.

Modernized version of the Hippocratic Oath, promulgated in response to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/ "Adopted by the 2nd General Assembly of the World Me…