FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.

Department of Anesthesiology Library

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

Bacon DR, McGoldrick KE, Lema MJ, eds. The American Society of Anesthesiologists: A Century of Challenges and Progress. Wood Library-Museum, 2005. 226pp. Illus. [rev. Mackay P. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 403-404, 2006; Waisel DB. Anesthesiology 105: 863, 2006]

Baker B.  Australia’s First Anaesthetic Department 75 Years at the RPA. Camperdown, N.S.W.: Jobson Foundation, 2005.  172pp.  [Illus., names index; rev. Clarke GM. Anaesth Intens Care 34, suppl. 1: 46, 2006]

Bock D. The Communist’s Daughter. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 287pp. [Novel based on the life of Norman Bethune]

Brown K. Catalyst. Brolga Publishing, 2006. 354pp. [Autobiography; rev. Cass N. Anaesth Intens Care 34, suppl. 1: 46, 2006]

Carr DB, Loeser JD, Morris DB, eds. Narrative, Pain and Suffering. Seattle: IASP Press, 2005. 362pp. [proceedings of a 2003 conference; rev. Cramond T. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 691-692, 2006]

Cousin M-T. L’Anesthesie-Reanimation en France. Des origins a 1965: Volume 1: Anesthesie; Volume 2: Reanimation. L’Harmattan Editions, 2005. 680pp. [French; rev. Defalque RJ. Eur J Anaesthesiol 23:718, 2006]

Dormandy T. The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain. Yale University Press, 2006. 560pp. [rev. Holmes MS. NEJM 355: 1506-1507, 2006]

Jeffreys D. Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. Bloomsbury, 2004. 335pp. [rev. Giguere RJ. Chemical Heritage 24(3): 47-48, fall 2006]

Johnson S. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic--and How It Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Modern World. Riverhead/Penguin, 2006. 352pp. [John Snow and cholera; rev. Mullen T. USA Today 17 October 2006, p. 7D; Schmid RE. Birmingham (Alabama) News 7 January 2007, p. 6F; Sarver A. In These Times 19 December 2006; Shapin S. New Yorker 6 November 2006; Howard P. American.com 16 February 2007; Publishers Weekly 21 August 2006; History Book Club selection]

Kamen P. All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache. Da Capo, 2005. 351pp. [rev. Publishers Weekly 6 September 2005]

Karch SB. A Brief History of Cocaine. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2006. 188pp.[rev. Nunes EV. NEJM 355: 1182, 2006]

Lamont-Brown R. Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp. Sutton Publishing, 2004. 199pp. [rev. Kauffman GB. Chemical Heritage 24(4): 42-43, winter 2006-7]

Merskey H, Loeser JD, Dubner R, eds. The Paths of Pain 1975-2005. Seattle: IASP Press, 2005. 549pp. [rev. Finley A. Can J Anesth 53: 853, 2006; Rowbotham DJ. Br J Anaesth 97:430, 2006]

Ortega RA, ed. Written in Granite: An Illustrated History of the Ether Monument. Plexus, 2006. 71pp. [Illus.; rev. Wildsmith JAW. Br J Anaesth 98: 155-156, 2007]

Snow SJ. Operations without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain. Palgrave, 2005. 288pp. [rev. Zuck D. Reviews in History http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/zuck.html ; author’s response at http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/zuckresp.html ]

Yentis S. A View from the Head End: Medical Cartoons to Ease the Pain. tfm Publishing, 2006. 128pp. [rev. Cass N. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 406, 2006]

Zorab JSM, ed. Three Pioneer British Anaesthetists [Careers in Anesthesiology series, volume IX]. Wood Library-Museum, 2005. 99pp. [rev. Cooper MG. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 689, 2006; Sprigge JS. Br J Anaesth 97: 429-430, 2006; Southorn PA. Anesthesiology 105: 1285-1286, 2006

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Ball C, Westhorpe RN. Cyclopropane. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 701, 2006 [cover note; 1 illus., 4 refs.]

Ball C, Westhorpe RN. Muscle relaxants-reversal agents. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 415, 2006 [cover note; 1 illus., 7 refs.]

Baranick A. B.B. Sankey, honored leader in the field of anesthesiology. Cleveland Plain Dealer 20 February 2007 [obituary with portrait ran in the paper on 15 and 16 February 2007]

Barnett R. “The future of the midwife depends on her power to relieve pain.” The rise and fall of the Analgesia in Childbirth Bill (1949). Int J Obstet Anesth 16: 35-39, 2007 [27 refs.]

Baskett P, Simpson P, Carter J. Obituary: John Stanley Mornington Zorab. Anaesthesia 61: 1024-1025, 2006 [portrait]

Bottiger BW, Baskett P. Tribute to Henning Ruben, MD, FFARCS (I). European Society of Anaesthesiology 23: 13, summer 2005 [Illus.]

Brodsky JB. The evolution of thoracic anesthesia. Thoracic Surg Clin 15: 1-10, 2005 [6 illus., 66 refs.]

Budko AA, Shabunin AV, Gribovskaia GA. N.I. Pirogov: "one has to tell the truth" - the celebrated military surgeon worked for many years on the Medical Council of the Ministry of the Interior. Voen Istor Zh 2: 66-68, 2002 [Russian]
 
Campagna JA. The end of religious fatalism: Boston as the venue for the demonstration of ether for the intentional relief of pain. Surgery 138:46-55, 2005
 

Cass NM, Brown TCK. The Monash computer-controlled electromyography. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 569, 2006 [cover note; 1 illus., 8 refs.]

Chang K. C. Frederick Mosteller, a pioneer in statistics, dies at 89. New York Times 27 July 2006

Cheney FW. An early example of evidence-based medicine: hypoxemia due to nitrous oxide. Anesthesiology 106: 186-188, 2007 [Classic Paper Revisited series; illus., 9 refs.]

Cunningham A. Tribute to Jeremy Swan (1922-2005).  European Society of Anaesthesiology Newsletter 25: 11, winter 2006 [Illus.]

Deschner B, Robards C, Somasundaram L, Harrop-Griffiths W. The history of local anesthesia. In: Hadzic A, ed. Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management. McGraw-Hill Medical, 2007, pp 3-18 [12 illus., 88 refs.]

Doctor killed, 2 hurt in Lima tanker crash; Inferno from SUV-truck collision melts road, cuts power to 1,400. Toledo Blade 16 November 2006 [anesthesiologist Matthew J. Heider, 44]

Dooley S. Physician found dead at hospital. Quad City [Davenport, Iowa] Times 29 August 2006 [anesthesiologist Jon Faeth, “dead of an apparent suicide”]

Dr. Kenneth Bruns: Longtime physician in St. Louis area. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 23 October 2006 [anesthesiologist died 18 October 2006]

Dr. Marc Balin. Willoughby [Ohio] News-Herald 29 October 2006 [Dr. Balin, 88, a native of Warsaw, Poland, was “the first anesthesiologist in Lake County” and died 17 October 2006]

Flannery MA. Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy. Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004. 358pp. [Includes anesthetics; rev. Higby GJ. Bull Hist Med 80: 774-775, 2006]

Giesecke M. Saying goodbye to Betty P. Stephenson, M.D.—1927-2006. ASA Newsletter 70(11): 15-16, November 2006 [portrait]

Gonzalez de Pablo A. Animal magnetism in Spanish medicine (1786-1860). Hist Psychaitry 17: 279-298, 2006

Goodman R. Dr. Edward Lowe lived 14 years with new heart. Cincinnati Enquirer 14 September 2006 [portrait; retired pediatric anesthesiologist died 8 September 2006]

Greenspan RE. Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art. Ponteverde Press, 2006. 596pp. [Illus.; surgery chapter includes anesthesia; rev. Skinner P. ForeWord September/October 2006; Schwartz RS. NEJM 355: 2408, 2006; Boyer MH. JAMA 296: 2146-2147, 2006

Ikeda S. The Unitarian Service Committee medical mission: contribution by the United States to post-World War II Japanese anesthesiology. Anesthesiology 106: 178-185, 2007 [4 illus., 22 refs.]

Jackson K. They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses in World War II. University of Nebraska Press, 2000; paperback ed. 2006. 211pp. [Some anesthesia; rev. Lusk B. JAMA 296: 1663, 2006]

John William ‘Bill’ Temple, M.D. Fond Du Lac [Wisconsin] Reporter 14 September 2006 [anesthesiologist died 10 September 2006]

Kim OJ. Experimental sciences in surgery: Harvey Cushing’s work at the turn of the twentieth century. Korean J Med Hist 15: 49-76, 2006 [53 refs.]

Knape HTA. Jan F. Crul: born Batavia, Indonesia July 31, 1922-died Nijmegen, the Netherlands April 28, 2006. European Society of Anaesthesiology 27: 5, summer 2006 [portrait]

Larson MD. History of anesthesia. In: Stoelting RK, Miller RD, eds. Basics of Anesthesia. 5^th ed. Churchill Livingstone, 2006, pp 3-10 [6 illus., table, 18 refs.]

Lee YK. Early history of anaesthetics in Singapore. Singapore Med J 47: 251-253, 2006 [table, 24 refs.]

Li JJ. Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories Behind the Drugs We Use. Oxford University Press, 2006 336pp. [Illus.]

Liu EHC, Lee TL. The teaching of anaesthesia in Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singapore 34: 140C-142C, 2005 [6 refs.]

Maxwell D. Obituary. Benedict John Barry—9.2.1936-6.9.2006. Founding editor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. Anaesth Intens Care 34: 709-710, 2006 [portrait]

Mayhew J. Peere C. Lund, M.D., F.A.C.A., March 15, 1917-October 8, 2005. ASRA News February 2006, p. 11 [Illus.]

Medical Mavericks. Part 1: Anaesthesia. Hosted by Dr. Michael Mosley. BBC4 7 February 2007 [rev. Duff J. Glasgow Sunday Herald 27 January 2007; Whtelaw P. The Scotsman 8 February 2007; Johns I. The Times London 8 February 2007; Wollaston S. The Guardian 8 February 2007]

Obituary [Dr. Sania Haroun-Bizri]. Middle East J Anesthesiol 18: 667-670, 2006 [She died 15 February 2006]

Oransky I. A statistical giant: C. Frederick Mosteller. Anesthesiology News 32(12): 32, December 2006 [portrait]

Ortega RA, Rengasamy SK. Using digital media to keep anesthesia history alive. J Anesth 19: 350-352, 2005 [15 refs.]

Ortega RA, Zombricki ER. Ether monument is finally restored! ASA Newsletter 71(1): 29-30, January 2007 [Illus., 1 ref.]

Pearce JMS. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974): neurological evaluation of the newborn infant. Eur Neurol 54: 132-134, 2005 [Illus., table, 11 refs.]

Petermann H. Laughing gas: pleasure gas and inhalation anesthetic--experience and action as decisive factors in the history of anesthesia. Sudhoffs Arch Z Wissenschaftsgesch Beih 54: 227-237, 2004 [German]

Ramsay JG. Remembering John Arthur Hinckley, 1932-2006. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Newsletter 6(1): 1-2, February 2007

Reed TT Jr. Beloved doctor killed in wreck. Jackson [Tennessee] Sun 7 February 2007 [portrait; anesthesiologist Ronald A. Homra, 59; see also “Local doctor killed in wreck.” Jackson [Tennessee] Sun 6 February 2007]

Slutsky A, Stewart T, Laupacis A. William John Sibbald: in memoriam. Intens Care Med 32: 1945-1946, 2006

Sprung CL, Martin CM, Slutsky AS. William J. Sibbald: in memoriam. Crit Care Med 35: 1-2, 2007 [portrait, 27 refs.]

Sneader W. Drug Discovery: A History. John Wiley, 2005. 468pp. [Includes anesthetics; rev. Slater LB. Chemical Heritage 24(2): 43, summer 2006]

Straus E, Straus A. Medical Marvels: The 100 Greatest Advances in Medicine. Prometheus Books, 2006. 425pp. [Includes anesthesia, aspirin, blood transfusion; rev. Bagchi S, et al. JAMA 296: 706-707, 2006]

Tan SY, Sung H, Wong C. Medicine in stamps: Crawford Long (1815-1878): father of modern anaesthesiology. Singapore Med J 46: 598-599, 2005 [illus., 10 refs.]

Ulman YI. The early steps of chloroform anaesthesia in Turkey during the Ottoman Empire in the 19^th century. Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 24: 377-382, 2005 [43 refs.]

Vondas J. Anesthesiologist proud to call American home. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 20 Octboer 2006 [portrait; Ashok Navalgund died 18 October 2006]

Whalen FX, Bacon DR, Smith HM. Inhaled anesthetics: an historical overview. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 19: 323-330, 2005

Zerwas JM. Lessons from a legend: Betty Pearce Stephenson, M.D. January 31, 1927-September 17, 2006. ASA Newsletter 70(11): 3, 16, November 2006 [Illus.]