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Adler, Robert E. Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome A 2,500-year history of medical advances and discoveries organizes entries chronologically and provides vivid capsule information on the industry's milestones, breakthroughs, and significant contributors. 2004 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History An in-depth account of the deadly influenza epidemic of 1918, a plague that took the lives of millions of people around the world, examines the causes of the pandemic, its devastating impact on early twentieth-century society, the researchers who risked their lives to confront the disease, and the lasting implications of the crisis and the scientific discoveries that resulted. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Bookchin, Debbie The Virus and the Vaccine Recounts how nearly one hundred million Americans were exposed to a dangerous virus through tainted polio vaccines distributed between 1954 and 1963, revealing the government's efforts to downplay the incident and the numerous cases of cancer linked to the vaccines. 2004 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Chase, Marilyn The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco Describes an epidemic of bubonic plague that erupted in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, first in 1900 and then five years later, and the efforts of scientists Joseph Kinyoun, Dr. Rupert Blue, and Blue's aide Colby Rucker to contain the disease, discover its source, and eradicate it from the city 2003 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Crosby, Molly Caldwell The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History Traces the impact on American history of yellow fever from the mid-seventeenth century onward, examining in particular the near-destruction of Memphis from the disease and the efforts of four men to combat the deadly scourge. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Crosby, Molly Caldwell. Asleep : the Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries Crosby, an author and writer whose grandmother was killed by encephalitis lethargica, or "sleeping sickness," examines the mysterious epidemic which killed about one million people around the world in the 1920s, mostly in New York City. Through discussion of case studies, medical journals, interviews with family members, and other records, she describes the efforts of a group of doctors in New York who searched for the cause, treatment, and cure, how it disappeared in 1927, and the efforts of scientists today to understand and prevent reemergence of the disease. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 Recreates one of the most overlooked chapters in American history--the smallpox epidemic that coincided with the Revolutionary War--tracing its influence on colonial life and the course of the war. 2001 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Grob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America An analysis of how disease has shaped American history explores the connection between the environment and disease, outlining the complex forces that determine human health and concluding that disease will always be a part of life. 2002 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Hager, Thomas The Demon Under the Microscope: from Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug A sweeping history of the discovery of the world's first antibiotic, sulfa, and its seminal influence on the fields of medicine and science looks at key figures in the battle against disease, how sulfa changed the way in which doctors treated patients, and how it transformed how new drugs are developed, approved, and sold. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Hayes, Bill Five Quarts: a Personal and Natural History of Blood An intensely personal and informative exploration of the history of human blood traces attitudes toward the vital substance, from ancient times, through a Victorian Europe decimated by hemophilia, to today's modern day high-tech laboratories, documenting the author's own strict upbringing in a Catholic home and his relationship with a man who is HIV-positive. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Hellman, Hal Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever Popular science writer Hellman begins with Harvey and the circulation of blood, and ends with the debate over AIDS and HIV. Between, he considers animal electricity, vivisection, germ theory, psychoanalysis, polio, the structure of DNA, and other controversies. He shows how in many cases the conflicts forced scientists to new discoveries to defend their ideas. 2001 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Honigsbaum, Mark The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria Relates the mission of three British explorers to find the cinchona tree, the source of a medicine that supposedly had cured a Spanish countess of malaria, in an account of geopolitical rivalry that pitted the New World against the Old. 2002 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Johnson, Steven The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How it Changed Science Cities and the Modern World A historical chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Kelly, John The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time Chronicles the Great Plague (the Black Death)that devastated Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century, documenting the experiences of people who lived during its height while describing the decline of moral boundaries that also marked the period. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Kluger, Jeffrey Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio The story of the polio vaccine and its creator discusses Salk's childhood during one of polio's worst epidemics and his education during the presidency of an afflicted FDR, describing how politics nearly prevented the vaccine's development. 2004 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Kolata, Gina Bari Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused it Describes the great flu epidemic of 1918, an outbreak that killed some forty million people worldwide, and discusses the efforts of scientists and public health officials to understand and prevent another lethal pandemic 1999 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Koplow, David A. Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge Looks at the history of the smallpox virus, providing an overview of the political, biological, environmental, medical, and legal issues surrounding the question of whether or not the virus should be exterminated. 2003 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Markel, Howard When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed Provides an analysis of six major epidemics that have devastated America since 1900, looking at the nation's response to the pathogens and explaining why globalization, social upheaval, and international trade leave us vulnerable. 2004 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Mnookin, Seth The Panic Virus : a True Story of Medicine Science and Fear In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In the years to come Wakefield would be revealed as a profiteer in league with class-action lawyers, and he would eventually lose his medical license. Meanwhile one study after another failed to find any link between childhood vaccines and autism.Yet the myth that vaccines somehow cause developmental disorders lives on. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis Puerperal (or "childbed") fever killed far more individuals in hospitals than out in the early 1800s, largely because doctors were spreading it by not washing their hands after handling cadavers. Nuland analyzes how doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical field led to his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his work contributed to the establishment of germ theory. 2003 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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MEDICAL HISTORY AND MEMOIRS...
AUTHORS
| • | Blum, Deborah |
| • | Horgan, John, 1953- |
| • | Jamison, Kay R. |
| • | Kolata, Gina Bari |
| • | Pinker, Steven |
| • | Pringle, Heather Anne |
| • | Restak, Richard M.
neuroscience |
| • | Ridley, Matt
genetics |
| • | Sacks, Oliver W.
neuroscience, psychology |
| • | Shermer, Michael
psychology, neuroscience |
| • | Whitaker, Robert |