FROM THE LITERATURE
A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Department of Anesthesiology Library
ajwright@uab.edu
http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm
Note: I have examined most of the
items listed in this column. 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; I interpret those
categories very broadly. Some will concern individuals important in the history
of the specialty [i.e., Harvey Cushing or William Halsted] who also achieved in
other areas or widely-used equipment such as the stethoscope. I also include
career profiles of living individuals. Non-English materials are so indicated.
Columns for the past several years are available as "Recent Articles on
Anesthesia History" on the
Anesthesia History Association WWW page at http://www.anes.uab.edu/anesthesia_history_association.htm I urge readers to send me any citations,
especially those not in English, that I may otherwise miss!
BOOKS
Bliss M. Harvey Cushing: A Life
in Surgery.
Burke KG. From Research Lab to
Routine Procedure: A Case Study of the Swan-Ganz Catheter, 1965-1980. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania,
2001.
Carr DB, Loeser JD, Morris DB, eds. Narrative,
Pain and Suffering.
Caton D, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers
in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical Memoirs. Vol. 8.
Finger S. Doctor Franklin's
Medicine.
Hirshfeld A. The Electric Life of
Michael Faraday.
John C. Liebeskind History of Pain
Collection, Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA. Pain Oral History Project. Volume
1, 2005 [CD-ROM; selection of oral histories conducted between 1993-1996; more
information: http://www.library.ucla.edu/biomed/his/pain.html ]
Karch SB. A History of Cocaine:
The Mystery of Coca Java and the
Klein RL, Kendrick A. The History
of Anesthesia in
Merskey H, Loeser JD, Dubner R, eds.
The Paths of Pain 1975-2005.
Morris LE, Schroeder ME, Warner ME,
eds. A Celebration of 75 Years Honoring Ralph Milton Waters, M.D. Mentor to
a Profession. Proceedings the Ralph M. Waters Symposium on Professionalism in
Anesthesiology
Ortega R. Leroy D. Vandam, MD: An
Anesthesia Journey.
Stratmann L. Chloroform: The
Quest for Oblivion. Sutton Publishing, 2003. 256pp. [rev. Daniels A. The
Telegraph (
Zorab JSM, ed. Pioneer British
Anaesthetists [Careers in Anesthesiology series, volume IX]. Wood
Library-Museum, 2005. 99pp. [rev. BiebuyckJF. Anesth Analg 102: 977-978, 2006]
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
AHA announces 2004 David M. Little
Prize Winners. ASA Newsletter 69(2): 13, February 2005
AHA Resident Essay Contest winners
honored. ASA Newsletter 69(2): 13, February 2005
Albin MS. From there to modernity: a
millennium of progress in a century. ASA Newsletter 69(10): 5-7, 11, October
2005 [6 refs.]
Bacon DR. White Knight: ASRA, ASA,
and the formation of the
Ball C, Westhorpe R. Muscle
relaxants--decamethonium. Anaesth Intensive Care 33(6): 709, December 2005 [1
illus., 6 refs.]
Ball C, Westhorpe R. Muscle
relaxants--suxamethonium and THA. Anaesth Intensive Care 34(1): 3, February
2006 [1 illus., 5 refs.]
Bause GS, Erickson JC III. Freud,
Erdmann and Einstein: heroes of 1905, ASA's founding year. ASA Newsletter
69(10): 12-15, October 2005 [21 illus.]
Bridenbaugh
Calmes SH. Then and now: the women
of ASA. ASA Newsletter 69(10): 8-11,
October 2005 [3 illus., 3 graphs, 1 table]
Canale DJ. S. Weir Mitchell's prose
and poetry on the American Civil War. J Hist Neurosci 13(1): 7-21, March 2004
[1 illus., numerous references]
Canale DJ. Civil war medicine from
the perspective of S. Weir Mitchell's "The case of George Dedlow". J
Hist Neurosci 11(1):11-18, March 2002 [2 illus., numerous references]
Chast F. L'opium dans l'art et la
litterature. Arts et Biologie 39: 17-30, December 2001 [illus., some color]
Connor H. Military anaesthesia,
1846-1856. Anaesthesia. 61(3):296-297; author reply 297, March 2006 [letters;
12 refs.]
Cope DK. History as a subspecialty
of anesthesiology. ASA Newsletter 69(10): 36-37, October 2005
Dearmont D. Automatic Writing: A
History from Mesmer to Breton (Andre Breton, Pierre Janet, Frederic Myers,
Franz Anton Mesmer, France). PhD dissertation, University of Washington,
2004
Donaldson IM. Mesmer's 1780 proposal
for a controlled trial to test his method of treatment using "animal
magnetism". J R Soc Med 98(12):572-575, December 2005 [1 illus., 15 notes,
5 refs.]
Douglas E. Mary E. Botsford, MD:
first
Froese AB. Gravity, the belly, and
the diaphragm: you can't ignore physics. Anesthesiology 104(1):193-196, january
2006 [Classic Papers Revisted series; 2 illus., 14 refs.]
Gedeon A. Science and Technology
in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications
from Five Centuries. Springer, 2006. 580pp. [Includes Wren, Hales, Blak,
Priestley, Lavoisier, Davy, Snow, Trendelenberg, Riva-Rocci, Einthoven]
Herr HW. Franklin, Lavoisier, and
Mesmer: origin of the controlled clinical trial. Urol Oncol 23(5):346-351,
September-October 2005 [3 illus., 9 refs.]
Hirschmann JV. Benjamin Franklin and
medicine. Ann Intern Med 143(11):830-834, December 6, 2005 [45 refs.; includes
Jacob M. Historians with pain.
Perspectives [American Historical Society] 43(8): 16-17, November 2005
[profiles the Interdisciplinary Pain Project at UCLA]
Johnstone RE. On the frontlines:
Army anesthesiologists serve the country. ASA Newsletter 67(10): 17-19, October
2003 [3 illus., 1 table]
Kalliardou E, Tsiotou AG, Velegrakis
D, Avgerinopoulou A, Poulakou E, Papadimitriou L. Historical aspects of
inhalation anesthesia in children: ether and chloroform. Paediatr Anaesth.
16(1): 3-10, January 2006 [7 illus., 30 refs.]
Kravetz RE. Hypodermic syringe. Am J
Gastroenterol 100(12):2614, December 2005 [1 illus.]
Krier C, Standl T, Goerig M. Prof.
Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Jochen Schulte am Esch: A Visionary of Our Specialty
Celebrates his 65th Birthday. Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther
39(10):583-844, October 2004 [German]
Lee MR. Curare: the South American
arrow poison. J R Coll Physicians Edinb 35(1):83-92, February 2005 [8 illus.,
34 refs.]
Lightman B, ed. The Dictionary of
Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. Bristol: Thoemmes, 2004. 4 vols.
[Includes Davy, Roget, Snow]
Mandabach MG, Wright AJ. The
American society of regional anesthesia: a concise history of the original
group-its birth, growth, and eventual dissolution. Reg Anesth Pain Med
31(1):53-65, January-February 2006 [17 illus., 32 refs.]
Matsuki A. A brief history of
biographical Seishu Hanaoka. Nippon Ishigaku Zasshi 51(3 ): 355-384, September
2005 [Japanese]
Mills B. Poe, Fuller and the
Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 2006. 202pp.
[Index, bibliographical references]
Neal JM. 30 plus years--an
anniversary celebration of ASRA and regional anesthesia and pain medicine. Reg
Anesth Pain Med 31(1):4-5, January-February 2006 [4 refs.]
Nuland SB. Doctors: The History
of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography. Chantilly, VA: Teaching
Co., 2005 [6 hours; color VHS or DVD; includes book and transcript; William
Morton included]
Ozturk S. An early description of
painful neuropathy in Hittite tablets. Arch Neurol 63(2):296, February 2006 [6
refs.]
Peter B. Gassner's exorcism--not
Mesmer's magnetism--is the real predecessor of modern hypnosis. Int J Clin Exp
Hypn 53(1):1-12, January 2005 [20 refs.]
Ptaszynski AE, Horlocker TT, Bacon
DR, Rowlingson JC. Alon P. Winnie, L. Donald Bridenbaugh, jr., Harold Carron,
P. Prithvi Raj, and Jordan Katz: founding fathers of the American Society of
Regional Anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 31(1):71-78, January-February 2006 [6
illus., 34 refs.]
Ruetsch YA, Boni T, Borgeat A. From
cocaine to ropivacaine: the history of local anesthetic drugs. Curr Top Med
Chem. 1(3):175-182, August 2001 [10 chemical structures, 2 tables, 97 refs.]
Shampo MA, Kyle RA. Medicine and
Stamps. Volume 3.
Shrestha BM,
Vassallo SA. Lewis H. Wright
Memorial Lecture. ASA Newsletter 69(7): 7-8, July 2005 [1 portrait of Dr.
Warner ME. Preservation of the WLM
Living History Collection and educational films. ASA Newsletter 69(10): 19,
October 2005 [3 illus.]
Willis M. Mesmerists, Monsters,
and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth
Century.
Wright L, Waisel D, Bacon D. The
Anlet: anesthesiology's response to the needs of the Armed Forces in World War
II. Anesthesiology 104(1):179-182, January 2006 [21 refs.]