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19 entries match Ethics & Law [K01.750 / K01.690] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
1896 CE
#10608
14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.
This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of …
1981 CE
#8091
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…
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…
1973 CE
#8136
Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.
Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.
1623 CE
#10491
Historia vitae & mortis. Sive, titulus secundus in historia naturali & experimentali ad condendam philosophiam: Quae est instaurationis magnae pars tertia.
This was Bacon's direct contribution to medicine or medical philosophy, with natural and experimental observations on the prolongation of life. Translated into English as The History naturall And experimentall, of lif…
1985 CE
#13737
Hypervariable 'minisatellite regions in human DNA.
Jeffries and team discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling. This was the first publication of the method.
1985 CE
#13736
Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.
Jeffreys and associates discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling.
1951 CE
#10616
Inherit the wind.
This play about the Scopes Trial that concerned creationism versus evolution was the subject of numerous film adaptations including the most famous one first screened in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.
1894 CE
#13770
La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1982 CE
#11328
Literature and medicine, vol. 1- . Edited by Anne Hudson Jones.
"Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease,…
2006 CE
#8092
Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
1983 CE
#6623.5
Medical case book of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle.
The first complete book on the medical aspects of the Sherlock Holmes stories as well as the non-fiction writings of Conan Doyle.
1985 CE
#8123
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
2001 CE
#8124
Medical ethics in the ancient world.
1937 CE
#10198
The Citadel.
This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…
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…
2015 CE
#11368
The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.
"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural sele…
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…
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…