FROM THE LITERATURE
A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
[This material will be published in the Bulletin of Anesthesia History.]
Note: In general, I have not examined articles that do not include a notation for the number of references, illustrations, etc. I do examine most books and book chapters. Books can be listed in this column more than
once as new reviews appear. Older articles are included as I work through a large backlog of materials. Some listings are not directly related to anesthesia, pain or critical care but concern individuals important in the history of the specialty [i.e., Harvey Cushing]. Non-English articles are so indicated. Columns for the past several years are available in the "Anesthesia History Files" at http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm as "Recent Articles on Anesthesia History."
Books
*Caton D. What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 [Rev. Giescke AH. Anesthesiology 94:548-549, 2001]
*Fink BR, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: Two Posthumous Memoirs. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2000 [rev. Cass N. Anaesth Intens Care 28:712, 2000]
*Fullmer JZ. Young Humphry Davy: The Making of An Experimental Scientist. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000.
*Lett Z, Joy-Wah RL, eds. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Hong Kong: Evolution and Present Position. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Centre of Asian Studies, 1997 [Rev. Alexander JP. Eur J Anaesthesiol 18:127, 2001]
*Livingston WK. Pain and Suffering. IASP Press, 1998. [Rev. Long DM. Bull Hist Med 73:736-737, 1999; Stewart J. Can J Anaesth 47:604-605, 2000]
*Reves JG, Greene NM. Anesthesiology and the Academic Medical Center: Place and Promise at the Start of the New Millennium. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000 [Int Anesthesiol Clin Volume 38, number 2, spring 2000; rev. Friedman R, Krasnor LJ, Anesth Analg 91:1566, 2000;
Articles and Book Chapters
*AHA David M. Little Prize. Am J Anesthesiol 28: 31, January/February 2001
*Albin MS. The use of anesthetics during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Pharm Hist 42: 99-114, 2000 [14 illus., 3 tables, 70 refs.]
*Bacon DR. August Bier's legacy: more than just a pioneer in regional anesthesia? J Clin Anesth 12:501-502, 2000. [editorial; 5 refs.]
*Ball C, Westhorpe R. Modern developments--plastic cannulas and the Court butterfly needle. Anaesth Intens Care 28:603, 2000 [Cover note. 1 illus., 3 refs.]
*Ball C, Westhorpe R. Early intravenous anaesthesia. Anaesth Intens Care 29:3, 2001 [Cover note. 1 illus., 5 refs.]
*Brody H, Rip MR, Vinten-Johansen P, Paneth N, Rachman S. Map-making and myth-making in Broad Street: the London cholera epidemic, 1854. Lancet 356:64-68, 2000 [3 illus., 22 refs.]
*Calmes SH. World War II anesthesia and surgery: Bataan and Corregidor. CSA [California Society of Anesthesiologists] Bulletin 49(1):24-28, January-February 2000 [3 illus., 5 refs.]
*Calne R. The Illustrated History of Surgery. 2nd ed. Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001 [includes material on early anesthetics]
* Clark RB, Cleland JE. John G.P. Cleland: discoverer of pain pathways in labor. Int J Obstet Anesth 10:55-57, 2001 [2 illus., 9 refs.]
*Doyle DJ. New media: web page review: Death of An Anesthesia Company [http://www.uwm.edu/People/foregger/] Can J Anesth 48:99-100, 2001
*Drury PME. Published anaesthesia history. Curr Anaesth Crit Care 11:338-343, 2000 [38 refs.]
*Gochenour P. Franz Anton Mesmer; 1733-1815; Swiss physician. In: Schlager N, ed. Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. Volume 4, 1700-1799. Detroit: Gale, 2000, pp 171-172
*Gochenour P. Mesmerism: a theory of the soul. In: Schlager N, ed. Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. Volume 4, 1700-1799. Detroit: Gale, 2000, pp 123-125 [3 refs.]
*Goerig M, Agarwal K, Schulte am Esch J. The versatile August Bier (1861-1949), father of spinal anesthesia. J Clin Anesth 12:561-569, 2000 [9 illus., 43 refs.]
*Greene NM. Laureates of the History of Anesthesia, 2000. Surv Anesthesiol 45:67, 2001
*Hamilton RC. Sir Harold Ridley, MD, FRCS, FRS; inventor of the intraocular lens implant. Curr Anaesth Crit Care 11:314-319, 2000 [8 illus., 13 refs.]
*Hanson CW III, Marshall BE. Artificial intelligence applications in the intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 29:427-435, 2001 [Reviews history and current applications. 6 illus., 2 tables, 54 refs.]
*Hasegawa GR. Pharmacy in the American Civil War. Pharm Hist 42:67-86, 2000 [9 illus., 178 refs., 2 appendices]
*In memoriam: Albert M. Betcher, M.D. NYSSA [New York State Society of Anesthesiologists] Sphere 51(4):24-25, October-December 1999 [1 portrait]
*Kean C. Gertie Mark called the "mother of obstetric anesthesia." Anesthesiology News 27(1):1, 48-49, January 2001 [1 illus., 1 table]
*Mackenzie IMJ. The haemodynamics of human septic shock. Anaesthesia 56:130-144, 2001 [2 illus., 1 table, 164 refs.]
*McGoldrick KE. In memoriam: B. Raymond Fink, M.D. (1914-2000). Surv Anesthesiol 45:1-2, 2001 [1 portrait]
*Mullins RJ. A historical perspective of trauma system development in the United States. J Trauma Inj Infect Crit Care 47(3 suppl):s8-s14, September 1999 [41 refs.]
*Nicholas G. DePiero, M.D., 1915-2000. ASA Newsletter 65(2):37, February 2001 [obituary; 1 portrait]
*Rendell-Baker L. From something old something new [oral airway]. Anesthesiology 92:913-918, 2000 [Correspondence. 11 illus., 24 refs.]
*Roy RC. Insights into the American Board of Anesthesiology from its booklets of information. Am J Anesthesiol 27(1):41-44, January-February 2000 [4 refs.]
*Royster RL. An exemplary man and career. [profile of Francis M. James, III, MD] Am J Anesthesiol 27(1):25, January-February 2000
*Still A, Harvey AM. Resident section: from vision to success. ASRA Newsletter February 2001, pp 2-3
*Teitelbaum GP. A brief history of angiography and endovascular therapy. Sem Anesth Periop Med Pain 19:237-240, 2000 [40 refs.]
*Thoman CJ. Sir Humphry Davy and Frankenstein. J Chem Ed 75:495-496, 1998 [13 refs.]
*Toski JA, Bacon DR, Calverley RK. The history of anesthesiology. In: Barash PG, et al, eds. Clinical Anesthesia. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001, pp 3-24. [8 illus., 83 refs.]
*Widman B, Lisander B. Bertil Lofstrom: 30.6.1922-23.9.2000. Acta Anaesth Scand 45:138-139, 2001 [obituary; 1 portrait]
*Wright AJ. Laughing gas in 1799. In: Schlager N, ed. Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. Volume 4, 1700-1799. Detroit: Gale, 2000, p 145
*Wright AJ. James Watt; 1736-1819; Scottish inventor and scientific instrument maker. In: Schlager N, ed. Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. Volume 4, 1700-1799. Detroit: Gale, 2000, pp 437-438
*Zuck D. Snow, Empson and the Barkers of Bath. Anaesthesia 56:227-230, 2001 [3 illus., 8 refs.]
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