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• Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program (OTA-H-227; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Federal Policies and the Medical Devices Industry (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration: A Technical Memorandum (OTA-TM-H-16; Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Safe, Comfortable, Attractive, and Easy to Use: Improving the Usability of Home Medical Devices (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Human Factors (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging and Cost Effectiveness (1982), by William B. Stason and Eric Fortess (PDF files at Princeton)
• Assessing Selected Respiratory Therapy Modalities: Trends and Relative Costs in the Washington, D.C., Area (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Costs and Effectiveness of Nurse Practitioners (1981), by Lauren LeRoy and Sharon Solkowitz (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Feasibility of Economic Evaluation of Diagnostic Procedures: The Case of CT Scanning (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1981), by Judith L. Wagner (PDF files at Princeton)
• Periodontal Disease: Assessing the Effectiveness and Costs of the Keyes Technique (OTA background paper #2, case study #5, for "The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology"; 1980), by Richard M. Scheffler and Sheldon Rovin (PDF files at Princeton)
• Allocating Costs and Benefits in Disease Prevention Programs: An Application to Cervical Cancer Screening (1981), by Bryan R. Luce (PDF files at Princeton)
• Benefit-And-Cost Analysis of Medical Interventions: The Case of Cimetidine and Peptic Ulcer Disease (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers (updated third edition, 2018), by World Health Organization and Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project, contrib. by United States Agency for International Development Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PDF with commentary at fphandbook.org)

• Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility: Health Issues for Women and Children (1989), ed. by Allan M. Parnell (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Developing New Contraceptives: Obstacles and Opportunities (1990), ed. by Luigi Mastroianni, Peter J. Donaldson, and Thomas T. Kane (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Developing New Contraceptives: Obstacles and Opportunities (1990), ed. by Luigi Mastroianni, Peter J. Donaldson, and Thomas T. Kane (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? (10th edition; Sandy, OR: Eternal Perspective Ministries, 2011), by Randy C. Alcorn (PDF with commentary at epm.org)

• Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer (1991), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Technique and Treatment With the Light-Wire Appliances: Light Differential Forces in Clinical Orthodontics (first edition; St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1963), by Joseph R. Jarabak and James A. Fizzell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Difficult-To-Reuse Needles for the Prevention of HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Abusers (1992), by Don Des Jarlais (PDF files at Princeton)

• Shufflebrain: The Quest of Hologramic Mind (second edition), by Paul Pietsch (illustrated HTML at Indiana)

• Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Biomedical Imaging (1996), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications and Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Biomedical Imaging (1996), by National Research Council Committee on the Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Dynamic Biomedical Imaging (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Biomedical Imaging (1996), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications and Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Biomedical Imaging (1996), by National Research Council Committee on the Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Dynamic Biomedical Imaging (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Cost Effectiveness of Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Disease (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• BMC Medical Imaging (2001-) (full serial archives)

• The Safe Use of Ultrasound in Medical Diagnosis (third edition; London: British Institute of Radiology, 2012), ed. by G. ter Haar (multiple formats at birpublications.org)

• Ultrasonic Imaging and Animal Reproduction (4 volumes; 1995-2007), by O. J. Ginther (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Physiology of Large Reptiles, With Special Reference to the Heat Production of Snakes, Tortoises, Lizards and Alligators (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #425; 1932), by Francis Gano Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis de Calore Animalium (Glasgow: Excudebant Rob. et And. Foulis Academiae Typographi, 1755), by Jacobus Garner (page images at NIH)

• The Prospect of Immortality, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

• Breast Cancer: Setting Priorities for Effectiveness Research (1990), ed. by Kathleen N. Lohr (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Die Röntgentechnik: Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende (revised second edition, in German; Hamburg: L. Grafe und Sillem, 1906), by Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (2 volumes in French; Paris: Ve Jules Renouard, 1862), by G.-B. Duchenne, contrib. by Charles Darwin
  • main volume (owned by Charles Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • handwritten page in Darwin's volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • atlas volume (no title page; not a copy known to be owned by Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (second edition; 2 volumes in French; Paris: J. B. Balliere et fils, 1876), by G.-B. Duchenne
  • main volume: multiple formats at Google
  • atlas volume: multiple formats at Google

• Dental Photography (University of Michigan masters thesis; 1948), by William S. Brandhorst and William S. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue Général Illustré d'Instruments de Chirurgie, Collin, Maison Charrière (surgical instruments catalog in French, ca. 1914; with price list from 1922), by Collin et cie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue Général Illustré d'Instruments de Chirurgie, Maison Charrière, Collin (surgical instruments catalog in French; Paris: Chez Collin et cie, 1925), by Collin et cie (page images in France)

• The Boston Elbow (1984), by Sandra J. Tenenbaum (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Boston Elbow (1984), by Sandra J. Tenenbaum (PDF files at Princeton)

• Description of an Artificial Hand (also includes his "Practical Remarks on Aerial Navigation" and "Essay on the Means of Promoting Safety in Railway Carriages"; London: Tyler and Reed, 1845), by George Cayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early American Medical Imprints: A Guide to Works Printed in the United States, 1668-1820 (Washington: National Library of Medicine, 1961), by Robert B. Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Medical Biographies (Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co., 1920), by Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Impact of Randomized Clinical Trials on Health Policy and Medical Practice: Background Paper (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1983), by Hellen Gelband, contrib. by Thomas Chalmers and Henry Sacks
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• American Medical News (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the National Medical Association (partial serial archives)

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States (2005), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.