Books about the History of Dentistry
For your convenience, all books are in alphabetical order by title.
Dental Science in a New Age:
A History of the National Institute of Dental Research (Iowa State
University Press Series in the History of Technology)
by Ruth Roy Harris
ISBN: 0813813220 Publisher: Blackwell
Publishing, Feb. 1992
$89.99 476 pages hardcover
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After a survey of dentistry since the Babylonians,
recounts the establishment of the National Institute of Dental
Research as part of the National Institutes of Health in 1948, and its
contributions to health since them. First published in 1989.
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History Associates, Inc. The Iowa State University
Press Series in the History of Technology and Science. Scientific,
political, and institutional history of the National Institute of
Dental Research, the third of the National Institutes of Health.
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Dentistry: An Illustrated History
by Malvin E. Ring, D.D.S.
ISBN: 0810981165 Publisher: Mosby, Sept. 1992
$42.00 (Prices may vary) 319 pages Hardcover
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This beautifully illustrated armchair tour of the
world of dentistry, from Mesopotamia to Egypt and Babylonia, from the
Islamic world through the Renaissance, early America, and onto the
present day, traces the history of dental practice and focuses on its
fascinating development.
The Excruciating History of
Dentistry: Toothsome Tales & Oral Oddities from Babylon to Braces
by James Wynbrandt
ISBN: 0312263198 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback, Aug. 2000
$12.23 248 pages Paperback
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For those on both sides of the dreaded
dentist's chair, James Wynbrandt has written a witty, colorful,
and richly informative history of the art and science of
dentistry. To all of those dental patients whose whine rises in
tandem with that of the drill, take note: You would do well to
stifle your terror and instead offer thanks to Apollonia, the
patron saint of toothache sufferers, that you face only fleeting
discomfort rather than the disfiguring distress, or slow agonizing
death oft meted out by dental-care providers of the past. The
transition from yesterday's ignorance, misapprehension, and
superstition to the enlightened and nerve-deadened protocols of
today has been a long, slow, and very painful process.
History of Dentistry
by Axtelm-Hoffmann, Walter
ISBN: 3876521610 Publisher: Quintessence Pub Co, Jan. 1981
$126.00 435 pages, 529 illus, Hardcover
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Dentistry's sometimes tortuous development as a profession
is related to the great events of history in general as well as to advances in
science and pertinent social changes. The results of careful and thorough
research are presented in an impressive, yet interesting and readable way.
Comprehensive lists of citations provide the means - and impetus - for still
further research. From the hieroglyph for the dental therapist to the
development of the reclining chair, no facet of dentistry's history is
overlooked.
A Little Treatise on the
Teeth: The First Authoritative Book on Dentistry (1563) (Dental
Classics in Perspective, 2)
by Bartolomeo Eustach, David A. Chernin (Editor), Gerald Shklar, (Editor)
ISBN: 0881352594 Publisher: Science History
Publications, Sept 1999
$59.95 Hardcover
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Dentist to the pope, Eustachius (1520-74) left
several small treatises at his death, among them this Libellus de
Dentibus, devoted to the anatomy of the teeth and to concepts of
their development and function. His major works were unknown for a
century until a later pope discovered them, and they were published in
Amsterdam in 1714. Chernin (endodontics, Tufts U. and Harvard U.) and
Shklar (oral pathology, Harvard U.) are both interested in the history
of their field, and here present an English translation facing
facsimiles of the original Latin edition.Book News, Inc.®,
Portland, OR
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The Masters of
Functional Orthodontics by Aurelio Levrini and
Lorenzo Favero
ISBN: 1850970769 Publisher: Quintessence Pub Co, Aug 2003
$198.00 416 pages, 542 illus, Hardcover This book is also
listed under Orthodontics.
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More than a century after the birth of functional orthodontic therapy, this
unique work records the ideas, developments, and prospects of this fascinating
discipline. The Masters of Functional Orthodontics assesses the broad
therapeutic potential of the field, in part through a critical review of its
history, from its origins to the present day, and in part through biographies of
its founding fathers, rich in the details of their philosophies, their daily
lives, and the events and people that surrounded them and helped shape their
work. The book features numerous archival photos and illustrations, many of them
published for the first time. Anyone interested in this subject will find this
book a delight to read.
Medicine and Society in Early
Modern Europe
by M Lindemann ISBN 0521423546 Publisher:
Cambridge Univeristy Press, Jan 2000 $32.99 249 pages Paperback
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Book Description Medicine and Society in Early Modern
Europe, in the highly successful series of New Approaches, offers
undergraduate students a concise introduction to a subject rich in
historical excitement and interest. Bringing together the best and
most innovative recent research, Mary Lindemann examines medicine
from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly
scientific one. Drawing on medical anthropology, sociology and
ethics as well as cultural and social history, she focuses on the
experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on
the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals. Mary Lindemann
is a distinguished scholar in the history of medicine and writes
with exceptional clarity on this fascinating subject; her book will
be essential reading for all students of the history of medicine,
and provide invaluable context for historians of early modern Europe
in general.
Toothworms and Spider Juice
: An Illustrated History of Dentistry
by Loretta Frances Ichord
ISBN: 0761314652
Publisher: Millbrook Press, Feb. 1999
$52.33 (Prices may vary)
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Ichord has written an entertaining history of
dentistry that is full of gruesome treatments, terrifying
instruments, peculiar cures, and superstitions. The book's 12
chapters are devoted to such varied topics as the belief in the
evil toothworm, early dentist-barbers and tooth-drawers, dental
quackery, and tooth decoration. Because the chapter titles are
exotic rather than descriptive, and the organization is a
sometimes confusing hodgepodge of topics and historical periods,
the book is better suited for browsing than as a research tool.
With wise use of the index, however, report writers will find
brief but helpful information to bolster reports and fill in
studies of ancient cultures in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Source notes, glossary, bibliography. Randy Meyer
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