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2003 CE

#13322

La medicina en el exilio republicano.

Biographies of more than one thousand exiled veterinarians, dentists, clinicians, and pharmacists who, like Guerra, left Spain after the Civil War of 1936-39.

2003 CE

#11903

Labeling people: French scholars on society, race, and empire, 1815-1848.

2003 CE

#9601

Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.

2003 CE

#7721

Lust ohne Last: Geschichte der Empfängnisverhütung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.

Translated into English as Contraception: A History (Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008).

2003 CE

#8506

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

2003 CE

#8546

Medical botany: Plants affecting human health. 2nd ed.

2003 CE

#9632

Medical herbalism: The science and practice of herbal medicine.

2003 CE

#9806

Medical mycology in the United States: A historical analysis (1894–1996).

2003 CE

#11047

Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).

2003 CE

#9746

Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays

2003 CE

#7598

Medicine and science at Exeter Cathedral Library. A short-title catalogue of printed books 1483 to 1900, with a list of 10th -19th century manuscripts.

Exeter Cathedral Library, established in the eleventh century, houses medical and scientific books from all periods. It includes the library of the Exeter physician Thomas Glass, which he left to the cathedral in the …

2003 CE

#7560

Medicine man: The forgotten medical museum of Henry Wellcome.

A collective work edited by Arnold and Olsen.

2003 CE

#9218

Military preventive medicine mobilization and deployment. Vol. 1. Edited by Patrick W. Kelley

SECTION 1: A Historic Perspective on the Principles of Military Preventive Medicine 1 1. Preventive Medicine and Command Authority—Leviticus to Schwarzkopf 3 2. The Historical Impact of Preventive Medicine in Wa…

2003 CE

#14155

Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world

Traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.

2003 CE

#10710

Nameless offences: Homosexual desire in the nineteenth century.

2003 CE

#9669

Native American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.

http://naeb.brit.org/ "As noted, In the spring of 2003, substantial revisions of the database were made, revising its looks, and adding links to the US Department of Agriculture PLANTS database. This means that comple…

2003 CE

#12137

Numbers and nationhood: Writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy.

2003 CE

#10758

On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.

2003 CE

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

2003 CE

#10859

Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - Worldwide, 2003.

First description of the scope of the outbreak dated March 21, 2003, preliminary case definition, and interim infection control guidance for the United States. Available from the CDC at this link. One week later the C…

2003 CE

#10025

Palliative care perspectives.

2003 CE

#8485

Pharmaceutical achievers: The human face of Pharmaceutical research.

2003 CE

#8674

Profiles in cardiology: A collection of profiles featuring individuals who have made significant contributions to the study of cardiovascular disease.

2003 CE

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

2003 CE

#8405

Psyche and soma: Physicians and metaphysicians on the mind-body problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Edited by John P. Wright and Paul Potter.

2003 CE

#12371

Public health and the risk factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution.

"The acceptance of risk factors has produced changes in public health and medicine as profound as those that resulted from bacteriology and the germ theory of disease. . . . The risk factor concept has been controvers…

2003 CE

#14217

Recurrent de novo point mutations in lamin A cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.

The authors showed that mutations in lamin A (LMNA) are the cause of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria sundrom (HGPS). At the end of their abstract they stated that "The discovery of the molecular basis of this disease may …

2003 CE

#9253

Reworking the bench: Research notebooks in the history of science. Edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

Besides the historographical consideration of the value of laboratory notebooks for studying the history of experimentation and discovery, this volume includes studies of notebooks by Galvani, Schwann, Pavlov, Carl Co…

2003 CE

#9152

Right living: An Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene. Edited by Charles Rosenberg.

2003 CE

#8289

Sabur Ibn Sahl: The Small Dispensatory: Translated from the Arabic together with a study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Edition and translation of the oldest manuscript on Arabic pharmacy.

2003 CE

#13895

Saving lives, training caregivers, making discoveries: A centennial history of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

2003 CE

#7427

Schooling sex: Libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685.

2003 CE

#8643

Self-experimenters: Sources for study.

Grouped by category of experiment, and then by the name of the self-experimenter, this is a guide to their biographies and the articles that reported their results.

2003 CE

#13758

Solitary sex: A cultural history of masturbation.

2003 CE

#7873

Teratology in the twentieth century: Congenital malformations in humans and how their environmental causes were established.

Book form publication with extensive bibliography and index, reprinted from Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 25 (2003) 132-282.

2003 CE

#13145

The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.

2003 CE

#9855

The Birth of Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation: Blumgart and Yens, 1925.

Available online at http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/44/8/1362.long.

2003 CE

#7261

The bony labyrinth of Neanderthals.

Computed tomography of the inner ear of 20 Neanderthal specimens directed by Spoor showed that the Neanderthal semicircular canal is subtly distinct in size, shape, and orientation from that of modern humans. With Mar…

2003 CE

#8907

The dawn of neurosurgery. Rare books from the collection of Eugene S. Flamm.

2003 CE

#10863

The genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.

Dated May 30, 2003 and published immediately after No. 10862 in the same issue of Science, this reported the work of Marco Marra and his team in Canada. Order of authorship in the published paper was Marra, Jones, Ast…

2003 CE

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

2003 CE

#11347

The invisible enemy: A natural history of viruses.

2003 CE

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

2003 CE

#11593

The progressive era's health reform movement: A historical dictionary.

2003 CE

#9885

The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.

"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…

2003 CE

#12132

The scientific study of mummies.

2003 CE

#12241

Transplant: From myth to reality.

"... organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation resear…

2003 CE

#10143

Transplant: From myth to reality.

2003 CE

#14236

Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory. Edited by Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger, and C.U.M Smith.

2003 CE

#7057

Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.

"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…