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Weill Cornell Medicine: A History of Cornell’s Medical School
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‘The NHS … should not be condemned to the history books’: public engagement as a method in social histories of medicine
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Book review: "Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History" by Steve Parker
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Book review: Selected works on the history of medicine by academician Yuri Shevchenko
Published 2023-10-01“…It is worth mentioning a number of articles about the life, worldview, pedagogical, administrative and medical activities of Nikolay Pirogov, Sergey Botkin, there are also articles on the history of Russian military medicine of the 19th century included in the collection.…”
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Book Review - Johnson, Jenell. American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
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Shajarat al-Tibb (a Tree of Medicine) The History of the Medical Algorithms
Published 2021-05-01“…The studies conducted so far on the history of the clinical algorithm have not noticed to the works of Ahmad Al Hayati Ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi (917 AH- 1511 AD), who, to the best of our knowledge, was the first person who applied multiple branching algorithms (arborization) to medical books, and his book named Shajarat al-Tibb (lit. a tree of medicine) followed the dendritic method (multiple branching algorithms (arborization) in presenting medical information. …”
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History of Medicine in Bahrain Territory
Published 2016-08-01“…Academic databases were searched, besides manual search in hard materials like history books, famous biographies and manuscript indices.14 scientists were recognized who had practiced medicine or had authored in this field, seven compilations and numerous manuscripts written by them; there was a lucid relation between this area’s scientists with others in India, Persia and Iraq; they wrote their books in Arabic and Persian and believed in experimental medicine. …”
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REFERENCE BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF DENTAL MEDICINE PIERRE FAUCHARD AND HIS HANDBOOK OF THE TEETH (1728) (II)
Published 2014-10-01“…The journey into the world of books about the history of dental medicine, proposed by our paragraph, debuted in the first number of the review in 2014 with the book of Pierre Fauchard (1679-1761), Le Chirurgien dentiste ou Traité des dents, which had the first edition in 1728, the second in 1746 and the third in 1786. …”
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From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities
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Hakim Mohammad Azam Khan Chishti (1814-1902) and His Book about "Crisis in Diseases"
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The History of Infectious Diseases and Medicine
Published 2022-10-01“…From ancient times to the present, mankind has experienced many infectious diseases, which have mutually affected the development of society and medicine. In this paper, we review various historical and current infectious diseases in a five-period scheme of medical history newly proposed in this paper: (1) Classical Western medicine pioneered by Hippocrates and Galen without the concept of infectious diseases (ancient times to 15th century); (2) traditional Western medicine expanded by the publication of printed medical books and organized medical education (16th to 18th century); (3) early modern medicine transformed by scientific research, including the discovery of pathogenic bacteria (19th century); (4) late modern medicine, suppressing bacterial infectious diseases by antibiotics and elucidating DNA structure as a basis of genetics and molecular biology (20th century, prior to the 1980s); and (5) exact medicine saving human life by in vivo visualization and scientifically verified measures (after the 1990s). …”
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Shaping the past: how donors influenced Becker Library’s rare book collections
Published 2023-03-01“…Louis School of Medicine. This paper examines some of the most significant donors to Becker’s rare book collections in order to explore how these collections are a reflection of the interests and priorities of the physicians who assembled them, and also raises the issue of how the makeup of these collections create a Western-focused narrative regarding the history of medicine. …”
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A source for the history of medicine: the scientific library of Bartolo Nigrisoli
Published 2016-05-01“…Throughout his life he built a large medical book collection made up of international works, which is currently held by the Centre of Documentation for the History of Welfare and Health in Florence. …”
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Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born: The Many Lives of a Best-Selling Pregnancy Advice Book
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