1970–1979
586 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1977 CE
#12174
Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
1977 CE
#12300
Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Woese, Fox.) Woese and Fox discovered a "third kingdom" in microbial life that they called "archaebacteria" (Archaea) as distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. In thei…
1977 CE
#9938
Post-embryonic cell lineages of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Complete map of the nematode's neurons. Sulston and Horvitz tracked every non-gonadal cell division that occurred during larval development, and published a complete description of these lineages in 1977.
1977 CE
#7828
Problems of birth defects from Hippocrates to thalidomide and after. Edited by T.V.N. Persaud.
An anthology of classic papers edited with introductions by Persaud.
1977 CE
#13749
Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.
Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…
1977 CE
#14143
Resolution of some components of adenylate cyclase necessary for catalytic activity.
Goodman shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells." In this paper Goodman and Ross show…
1977 CE
#11656
Revised technique for cellulite fat reduction in riding breeches deformity.
This father-and-son team of Italian gynecologists invented a technique that used a small, rotating scalpel inside a thin, hollow metal cannula inserted through small incisions in the body. The rotating scalpel broke u…
1977 CE
#12338
Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.
1977 CE
#13178
Sigmund Freud's writings: A comprehensive bibliography.
1977 CE
#6524.3
Spätantike Bilder aus der Welt des Arztes. Medizinische Bilderhandschriften der Spätantike und ihre mittelalterliche Überlieferung.
1977 CE
#11044
Spliced segments at the 5' terminus of adenovirus 2 late mRNA.
Discovery of introns simultaneously with Roberts, Chow, Broker (No. 11043). Sharp's electron microscopist, Berget, visualized the introns in the electron microscope. James D. Watson took note of the profound significa…
1977 CE
#12609
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia by Burton A. Konkle, with the collaboration of James M. Anders ... [et al.] ; edited by Frederick P. Henry. Revised by Lisabeth M. Holloway, with an index and bibliography.
1977 CE
#5145.1
The black death in the Middle East.
1977 CE
#12031
The construction of molecular cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system.
Order of authorship in the original publication Bolivar, Rodriguez, Betlach...Boyer...The authors describe the composition and molecular construction of pBR-322 (named after Bolivar and Rodriguez) and call it "the mos…
1977 CE
#8198
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc "The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 480,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, mainly but not exclusively, in English, published mainly in th…
1977 CE
#3161.42
The Evan Bedford library of cardiology. Catalogue of books, pamphlets and journals.
Descriptions of 1112 items, many with very informative annotations by Bedford, who donated his collection to the Royal College of Physicians. In addition to his clinical and research work in cardiology Bedford was an …
1977 CE
#10060
The hospice movement: A better way of caring for the dying.
1977 CE
#7977
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
1977 CE
#6884
The nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage phi-X174.
Sanger and colleagues sequenced the first whole DNA genome—that of bacteriophage phi-X174 (5375 bases)
1977 CE
#5768.3
The source book of plastic surgery.
Reprints, translated into English where necessary, of classic papers on plastic surgery, with commentary.
1977 CE
#9261
The spontaneous generation controversy from Descartes to Oparin.
1977 CE
#3161.41
The top ten clinical advances in cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine and surgery 1945-1975. Final report. 2 vols.
1977 CE
#11245
Unidentified gram-negative rod infection: A new disease of man.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Butler, Weaver, Ramani....Bobo....First description of a newly discovered bacterium associated with dog bites, affecting in this case alcoholic patients or patients predispos…
1977 CE
#8672
Virus: A history of the concept
1977 CE
#13277
Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.
1977 CE
#6650.3
Women in medicine: A bibliography of the literature on women physicians.
Lists over 4,000 items published between 1750 and 1975. With R. Haimbach, C. Fenichel and N. B. Woodside.
1977 CE–1981 CE
#5768.2
McDowell series of plastic surgical indexes. 5 vols.
Vol. I: 900 b.c. to a.d. 1863 (Zeis [see No. 5767] translated, with additions and revisions); Vol. II: 1864-1920; Vol. III: 1921-1946; [Vol. IV]: 25-year index of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1946-71; Vol. V: 1…
1977 CE–2019 CE
#13018
Geographers biobibliographical studies. Vols. 1-38
Annual volumes edited by a changing group of experts. Ongoing.
1978 CE
#7897
BERICHTE ZUR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE. 1-
Organ der Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
1978 CE
#7456
A gene complex controlling segmentation in Drosophila.
Discovery of the Drosophila Bithorax complex and elucidation of its function. Lewis founded the field of developmental genetics and laid the groundwork for current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conser…
1978 CE
#567.2
A history of microtechnique: The evolution of the microtome and the development of tissue preparation.
1978 CE
#7277
A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.
Johanson and colleagues formally named the species Afarensis of the genus Australopithecus in 1978.
1978 CE
#358.1
A short history of medical entomology.
1978 CE
#8387
A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena.
In 1975–1977, Blackburn, working as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University with Gall, discovered the unusual nature of telomeres, with their simple repeated DNA sequences composing chromosome ends.
1978 CE
#7999
Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
1978 CE
#9136
Almost persuaded: American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920.
1978 CE
#145.9
An introduction to population ecology.
This elegantly written textbook by a pioneering authority is based on a carefully documented historical approach to the subject.
1978 CE
#2581.9
An introduction to the history of virology.
1978 CE
#2068.19
Apothecary jars: Pharmaceutical pottery and porcelain in Europe and the East 1150-1850, with a glossary of terms used in apothecary jar inscriptions.
The most comprehensive study in English.
1978 CE
#532.5
Birth after the reimplantation of a human embryo. (Letter to the editor).
First successful human birth after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.
1978 CE
#8775
Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.
1978 CE
#11440
Chemosurgery: Microscopically controlled surgery for skin cancer.
Mohs surgery for common types of skin cancer.
1978 CE
#7115
Contraceptive technology.
Standard work on the subject; 20th edition, New York: Arden Media, 2011. Hatcher originated the work in 1978. Collaborators on the 20th edition are Hatcher, Kowal, Nelson, Policar, and Trusell. An offshoot of the main…
1978 CE
#12310
Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner. Vol. 1: Philosophie, Rhetorik, Epistolographie, Geschichtschreibung, Geographie. Vol. 2: Philologie, Profandichtung, Musik, Mathematik und Astronomie, Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Kriegswissenschaft, Rechsliteratur
1978 CE
#8495
Disease in African history.
1978 CE
#10924
Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever. Edited by Stefan R. Pattyn.
Among the essays in this book two are of special note: 1. Piot, P., Sureau, P., Breman, J.G., Clinical aspects of Ebola virus infection in Yambuku area, Zaire, 1976 (pp. 157-166). This is the first clinical descriptio…
1978 CE
#13020
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
1978 CE
#10783
Erythema chronicum migrans and Lyme arthritis: Epidemiologic evidence for a tick vector.
The authors showed that a tick was the insect vector for Lyme disease. The tick (the "Deer Tick") is named lxodes dammini. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Broderick, and Malawista. (Thanks to Jua…
1978 CE
#6623.3
Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.
The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.
1978 CE
#8122
Graphic presentation of statistical information: Papers presented at the 136th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section: Session of Graphical Methods for Presenting Statistical Data: Boston, Massachusetts, August 23-26, 1976, Vol. 3.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.