Clendening History of Medicine Library
New Books
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Books Received Spring 2003
- Drugstore Memories : American Pharmacists Recall Life Behind the Counter, 1824-1933
- The Train is Leaving the Station
- Hewett Cottrell Watson: Victorian Plant Ecologist and Evolutionist
- Covenants of Life
- Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines
- Galen & Galenism
- Bioethics and Moral Content
- The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England
- The Arduous Touch: Voices of Women in Health Care
- The New Disability History: American Perspectives
- Iconoclast Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
- Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine
- Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-century England and France
- The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo-American Cardiology The Us Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918)
- Biographies of Remedies Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures
- The Road to Medical Statistics
- Alpha Omega Alpha : Honor Medical Society : Centennial Membership Directory, 1902-2002
- Informed Consent: A Guide to the Risks and Benefits of Volunteering for Clinical Trials
Books Received Fall 2002
- An American Health Dilemma A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900 (v. 1)
- Negotiating Disease: Power and Cancer Care, 1900-1950
- Courage to Fail: A Social Review of Organ Transplants and Dialysis
- Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States
- Disease Once Sacred: A History of the Medical Understanding of Epilepsy
- Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists
- My Stroke of Luck
- Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
- Critical Moments-Death and Dying in Intensive Care
- Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
- Ethical Dilemmas in Neurology
- Code of medical Ethics, Current Opinions with Annotations, 2002-2003
- Florence Nightingale's Theology: Essays, Letters and Journal Notes
- Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family
- Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing
- Canonical Medicine: Gentile da Foligno and Scholasticsm
- Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation
- Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity
- Royal Poxes and Potions: The Lives of Court Physicians, Surgeons and Apothecaries
- Family Therapy: An Intimate History
- Improving American Indian Health Care: The Western Cherokee Experience
- Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction: The Cost of Longing
- Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission
- Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
- Pox Americana: the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
- Ethics of Electronic Patient Records
- Medical Ethics: Analysis of the Issues Raised by the Codes, Opinions, and Statements
- Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics
- Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science
- Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America
- Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land
- Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000
- Aids and the Policy Struggle in the United States
- When the Bough Breaks: Parental Perceptions of Ethical Decision-making in NICU
- Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
- Deadly Truth: a History of Disease in America
- Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine
- Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Books Received Spring 2002
- Grappling With Death. The Union Second Corps Hospital at Gettysburg
- Marks in Books
- Blood An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
- Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics
- Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science
- And Thou Shalt Honor ... The Caregiver's Companion
- Every Man His Own Doctor
Books Received Fall 2001
- How To Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
- Hygiene in the Early Modern Medical Tradition
- A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
- William Croone. On the Reason of the Movement of the Muscles
- James Welwood: Physician to the Glorious Revolution
- Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana
- Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art
- Politics of Health in Europe
- Doctors in the Great War
- From Shell Shock to Combat Stress: A Comparative History of Military Psychiatry
- Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust
- Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual, and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness
- Principles of Biomedical Ethics (5th edition)
- Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice (2nd edition)
- When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics
- Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the New Medical Marketplace
- Human Embryo Research Debates
- Tough decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics (2nd edition)
- Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action
- Introduction to Healthcare Organizational Ethics
- The Cloning Sourcebook
- Practical Companion to Ethics (2nd edition)
- Ethics of Killing: Killing at the Margins of Life
- Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy in the Physician-patient Relationship
- Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
- An Ethic for Health Promotion: Rethinking the Sources of Human Well-being
- Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care
- Morality, Mortality, v 1, Death and Whom to Save from It
- Morality, Mortality, v 2, Rights Duties
- Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers
- Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics
- Psychiatric Ethics
- Suffering and Moral Responsibility
- Genetic Revolution and Human Rights
- Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions
- Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk
- Some Choice:Law, Medicine, and the Market
- Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America
- Opinions of the Ethics Committee on the Principles of Medical Ethics: With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry
- Typhoid Mary: an Urban Historical
- Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
- The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs
- Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies
- Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century
- Medical Progress and Social Reality: A reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature
- On My own Opinions Galen
- Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
- Descartes' Natural Philosophy
- The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
- The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug
- The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement
- The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution
- Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now
- The Gender and Science Reader
- Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology
- Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets
Books Received Spring 2001
- Born to Procreate: Women and Childbirth in France From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
- Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority
- The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System
- Reader's Guide to the History of Science
- Laboratory on the Nile: a History of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories
- A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature
- Combat Surgeons
- Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times
- Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life
- The Nurse Apprentice, 1860-1977
- The Return of Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru During the Twentieth Century
- Medicine in a Multicultural Society: Christian, Jewish and Muslim Practitioners in the Spanish kingdoms, 1222-1610
- Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art: An Illustrated Catalog of Prints and Drawings in the Clements C. Fry Collection held at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
- Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847
- Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
- Bioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues
- Medicine Ave.: the Story of Medical Advertising in America
- Century of Psychiatry
- The Apothecaries Garden: A History of Chelsea Physic Garden
- May the People Live: A History of Maori Health Development, 1900-1918
- Culture, Health, and Illness
- Shakespeare's Physic
- Health and Society in Britain Since 1939
- Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education
- Health and Medicine in Early Medieval Southern Italy
- The History of Medications for Women
- The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman
- The Sanitary City
- The History of Regional Medical Programs: The Life and Death of a Small Initiative of the Great Society
- The Society and Population Health Reader: Income Inequality and Health
- ... And the Pursuit of National Health
- Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece
- Sauer's Herbal Cures
- The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Later Victorian and Edwardian England
- The Culture
of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America
- The Case of Dr. Sachs: A Novel
- The Society and Population Health Reader: A State Perspective
- Acupuncture, Expertise, and Cross-Cultural Medicine
- How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS
- Patients and Doctors: Life-Changing Stories from Primary Care
- Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health
- Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis
- Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680
- Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
- Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
- Medicine and the Raj: British Medical Policy in India, 1835-1911
- Medicating Schizophrenia
- Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960
- Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity
- A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D.
- Getting Doctors to Listen: Ethics and Outcomes Data in Context
- Surgeons at War
Medical Arrangements for the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded in the British Army during the late 18th and 19th Centuries
- Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life
- Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas About the Mind
- Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
- Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898
- Body and City: Histories of Urban Public Health
- Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America
- Cocaine: Global Histories
- The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990
- Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular
Sciences
- Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940
- Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
- Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation
- Virus: The Co-discoverer of HIV Tracks Its Rampage and Charts the Future
- Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts
- Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
- Contagion:
Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies
- Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology
in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
- Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance
- Ancients and Moderns in the Medical Sciences: From Hippocrates to Harvey
- Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in Ancient China
- Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West
- Round-trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground
- Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: the "Native-Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900
- The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
- G. W. Liebniz's Monadology
- Books and the Sciences in History
- Good Medicine: Four Las Vegas Doctors and the Golden Age of Medicine
- Scientific Communication in History
- The Medieval Surgery
- Lost Words:
Narratives of Language and the Brain, 1825-1926
- Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940
- Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
- Polio
- Captain of Death:
The Story of Tuberculosis
© 1999-2001 University of Kansas
Medical Center
Comments: clendening@kumc.edu
Revised: April 12, 2001
