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1990–1999

809 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1949 CE

#3342

A history of oto-laryngology

From antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

1990 CE

#12585

"Heal the sick" was their motto: The Protestant medical missionaries in China.

1990 CE

#11524

A bibliography of Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) by Geoffrey Guy Meynell.

1990 CE

#9776

A chronology of nuclear medicine.

1990 CE

#11199

A commentary on the medical writings of Rudolf Virchow by L. J. Rather.

An extensively annotated bibliography of all of Virchow's medical writings, but not including his many contributions to anthropology

1990 CE

#7533

A history of contraception from antiquity to the present day.

1990 CE

#13514

A history of human helminthology.

1990 CE

#7355

A history of medical informatics.

1990 CE

#9736

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea.

1990 CE

#7883

A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.

Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.

1990 CE

#11930

A newly recognized fastidious gram-negative pathogen as a cause of fever and bacteremia.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Slater, Welch, Hensel.... Hensel, a medical technologist working in the clinical microbiology laboratory, University Hospitals, Oklahoma City, used innovative culture m…

1990 CE

#13949

A novel mediator between activator proteins and the RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus.

Kornberg discovered that transmission of gene regulatory signals to the RNA polymerase machinery is accomplished by an additional protein complex dubbed the Mediator. As noted by the Nobel Prize committee, "the great …

1990 CE

#7459

An Oak Spring pomona: A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

1990 CE

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990 CE

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1990 CE

#12453

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-1850.

1990 CE

#9802

Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-850.

1990 CE

#11448

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Edited by Wayne R. Dynes. Associate editors: Stephen Donaldson, Warren Johansson, and William A. Percy. 2 vols.

1990 CE

#8759

Expectations of life: A study in the demography, statistics, and history of world mortality.

1990 CE

#9234

Explorers of the Amazon.

The author was a noted explorer.

1990 CE

#4483.6

Fractures: a history and iconography of their treatment.

1990 CE

#7180

From the watching of shadows. The origins of radiological tomography.

1990 CE

#12468

Génération pilule.

Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

1990 CE

#10636

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 1ère partie: De l'ancienne médecine. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

One of the most emblematic treatises of the Hippocratic Collection. The author, a physician presumably associated with Hippocrates but otherwise unidentified, illustrates the value of scientific medicine sometime betw…

1990 CE

#14237

Historical atlas of crystallography.

1990 CE

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

1990 CE

#9838

History of Psychiatry. 1-

1990 CE

#8631

La médecine à Montpellier du XIIe au XXe siècle. Edited by Louis Dulieu.

1990 CE

#7135

Laser in situ keratomileusis.

Though several researchers developed the procedures for using an excimer laser to perform in situ karatomileusis (LASIK), "Pallikaris also independently conceived of a hinged flap using a microkeratome he had specific…

1990 CE

#13966

Linkage of early-onset familial breast cancer to Chromosome 17q21.

King showed that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein, a protein that in humans is encoded by the BRAC1 gene. BRCA1 is a human tumor suppressor gene (also …

1990 CE

#11265

Medical malpractice in nineteenth-century America: Origins and legacy.

1990 CE

#10713

Medical publishing in 19th century America: Lea of Philadelphia, William Wood & Company of New York City, and F.E. Boericke of Philadelphia: Including a checklist of Wood's Library of standard medical authors & specimen Lea, Wood, and Boericke catalogues.

1990 CE

#8049

Medieval & Early Renaissance medicine: An introduction to knowledge and practice.

1990 CE

#9924

Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times.

1990 CE

#12334

Mysterious heparin: The key to open heart surgery.

1990 CE

#11232

Nehemiah Grew: A study and bibliography of his writings

1990 CE

#12649

One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.

1990 CE

#10985

Osler's legacy: The department of medicine at Johns Hopkins 1889-1989.

1990 CE

#12077

Otolaryngology: An illustrated history.

Second edition by Weir and Albert Mudrey, Otorhinolarygngology: An illustrated history, Ashford, UK: Headley Brothers, 2013.

1990 CE

#14340

Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.

Working in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one targ…

1990 CE

#14340

Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.

1990 CE

#11421

Pharmacy: An illustrated history.

1990 CE

#7025

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.

The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…

1990 CE

#9764

Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.

1990 CE

#8877

Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.

1990 CE

#7073

Portraits of the insane. The case of Dr. Diamond, by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher.

Reproduces many of Diamond's photographs of psychiatric patients. Diamond was fascinated by the possible use of photography in the treatment of mental disorders; some of his many photographs depicting the expressions …

1990 CE

#8379

Proceedings of the first conference on visualization in biomedical computing. May 22-25, 1990. Norbert F. Ezquerra, Chair.

1990 CE

#10873

Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.

1990 CE

#13555

Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.

"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…

1990 CE

#11929

The agent of bacillary angiomatosis - An approach to the identification of uncultured pathogens.

To identify an uncultured and unidentified pathogen that was often visualized in tissue sections of lesions of bacillary angiomatosis with Warthin-Starry staining, the authors utilized two different techniques that we…