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  • Ahrens, Edward H., Jr., The Crisis in Clinical Research: Overcoming Institutional Obstacles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Alkon, Daniel L., Memory's Voice: Deciphering the Mind-Brain Code. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
  • Blodi, Frederick C., “The History of the National Eye Institute,” American Journal of Ophthalmology 115 (1993): 420-25.
  • Brown, Bertram S. The Federal Mental Health Program: Past, Present, and Future. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 27(7) 1976: 512-514.
  • Cantor, David, "Cancer, Research, and Educational Film at Midcentury: The Making of the Movie 'Challenge: Science Against Cancer,'" University of Rochester Press, 2022. View the film.
  • Cantor, David,  “Between Prevention and Therapy: Gio Batta Gori and the National Cancer Institute’s Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Programme, 1974-1978,”  Medical History, 56, 4, October 2012, pp. 531-561.
  • Cantor, David,  “Le National Cancer Institute: problème d’une intervention fédérale contre le cancer dans l’Amérique du début du XXe siècle,” in Didier Foucault (ed.), Lutter contre le cancer (1740-1960), Toulouse: Éditions Privat, 2012, pp. 329-358.
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  • Grob, Gerald N., From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
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  • Hannaway, Caroline, ed., Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008. With permission from IOS Press. 
  • http://www.iospress.nl/book/biomedicine-in-the-twentieth-century-practices-policies-and-politics/
  • Hannaway, Caroline; Harden, Victoria; and Parascandola, John (eds.), AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Amsterdam and Washington, DC: IOS Press, 1995).
  • Harden, Victoria A., AIDS at 30: A History. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2012.
  • Harden, Victoria A., Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
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  • Harden, Victoria A., “National Institutes of Health: Celebrating 100 Years of Medical Progress,” in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1989 Medical and Health Annual (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1988), pp. 158-75.
  • Harden, Victoria A. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
  • Harden, Victoria A., Risse, Gunther (eds.). AIDS and the historian : proceedings of a conference at the National Institutes of Health, 20-21 March 1989. [Bethesda, Md.] : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [1991]
  • Harris, Ruth Roy, “Brief History of the National Eye Institute,” Government Publications Review12 (1985): 427-48.
  • Harris, Ruth Roy. Dental Science in a New Age: A History of the National Institute of Dental Research. Rockville, Md.: Montrose Press, 1989.
  • van Heyningen, W. E. and Seal, John R. Cholera: The American Scientific Experience, 1947-1980. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1983.
  • Houts, Joseph K. Jr. Joseph James Kinyoun: Discoverer of Bubonic Plague in America and Father of the National Institutes of Health.  McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2021
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  • Judd, Lewis L., “Historical Highlights of the National Institute of Mental Health from 1946 to the Present,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 155 Suppl (1998): 3-8.
  • Kanigel, Robert. Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
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  • Khot, Sandeep, Park, Buhm Soon; Longstreth, W.T., Jr. The Vietnam War and Medical Research: Untold Legacy of the U.S. Doctor Draft and the NIH 'Yellow Berets,' Academic Medicine 86 (2011): 502-8.
  • Kornberg, Arthur. For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

  • Kramer, Victor H., National Institute of Health: A Study of Public Administration. New Haven, Conn. : V.H. Kramer, 1937. Printed by Quinnipiack Press.

  • Krause, Richard. The Restless Tide: The Persistent Challenge of the Microbial World. Washington, DC: The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 1981.
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  • Lanahan, Ernestine Taylor. A Salute to the Past: A History of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Based on Personal Recollections. Bethesda, MD: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 1987.
  • Lee, Thomas H. Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • Lyons, Michele. Seventy Acres of Science: The NIH Moves to Bethesda. NIH Publication, 2006.
  • Mandel, Richard, Beacon of Hope, 1953-1993: The Clinical Center Through Forty Years of Growth and Change in Biomedicine. Bethesda, Maryland: National Institutes of Health, 1993.
  • Mandel, Richard, A Half Century of Peer Review, 1946-1996. Bethesda, Maryland: National Institutes of Health, Division of Research Grants, 1996.
  • Masur, Jack and Thompson, N. P., “A National Clinical Center for Chronic Disease Research Hospitals (November 1949): 1-12.
  • May, Clarence W. A Brief History of the Growth of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Public Health Service. January 15, 1947. (Internal Report)
  • McNees, Pat. Building Ten at Fifty: 50 Years of Clinical Research at the NIH Clinical Center. Clinical Center Communications, October 2003.
  • Mider, G. Burroughs, “The Federal Impact on Biomedical Research,” in John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell, eds., Advances in American Medicine: Essays at the Bicentennial, 2 vols. (New York: Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, 1976) 2: 806-71.
  • Miles, Wyndham D. A History of the National Library of Medicine, The Nation's Treasury of Medical Knowledge. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, NIH Publication No. 82-1904, 1982.
  • Mullan, Fitzhugh. Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service.
  • NIH Through the Years: A Century of Science and Health, Published for the National Institutes of Health Centennial, 1987. 
  • “The National Cancer Institute: A Twenty-Year Retrospect,” by J. R. Heller, in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, special twentieth anniversary issue 19 (1957): 141-190.
  • National Cancer Institute, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, special fortieth anniversary issue 59 (2) suppl., 1977. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 77-13.
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, History and Fact Book, NIH publication, 1963.
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Intramural Contributions, 1887-1987, ed. by Harriet R. Greenwald and Victoria A. Harden. Bethesda, Maryland: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1987.
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, A History of Progress: NIEHS, The First 20 Years (1966 to 1986). Research Triangle Park, NC: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1986.
  • National Institutes of Health, NIH Almanac, published annually. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Selected sources from the Almanac can be found at http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/historical/index.htm
  • National Institutes of Health, NIH Data Book. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1961-1994. Copies available for reference by appointment in NIH Historical Office. Data now available at various locations on the NIH World Wide Web page,http://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/
  • National Institutes of Health, NIH Record available online (full-text) 1949-present.
  • November, Joseph, Biomedical computing : digitizing life in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
  • O'Hern, Elizabeth Moot. Profiles of Pioneer Women Scientists. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, Ltd., 1985. One section devoted to NIH scientists. 
  • Olszewski, Todd M. "Lost in Translation: Linking Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice at the National Institutes of Health, 1977 to 2013." Annals of Internal Medicine. 2018;168:431–435. doi: 10.7326/M17-2418.
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  • Rhodes, Richard. Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Journalistic history of prion diseases.
  • Rosenberg, Steven A. and Barry, John M. The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992.
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  • Scheffler, Robin Wolfe. A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

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  • Schmeckebier, Laurence F. The Public Health Service, Its History, Activities, and Organization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1923.
  • Spingarn, Natalie Davis, Heartbeat: The Politics of Health Research. Washington, D.C.: Robert B. Luce, 1976.
  • Stark, Laura, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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  • Stimson, Arthur H., “A Brief History of Bacteriological Investigations of the U.S. Public Health Service, “ Supplement No. 141 to Public Health Reports, 1938.
  • Strickland, Stephen P., Politics, Science, and Dread Disease: A Short History of United States Medical Research Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
  • Strickland, Stephen P., The Story of the NIH Grants Program. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1989.
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  • Thompson, Larry. Correcting the Code: Inventing the Genetic Cure for the Human Body. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
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