An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz

5 entries
  • 9420

A short history of medicine.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955.

Revised and expanded edition with a Foreward and Concluding Essay by Charles Rosenberg (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).



Subjects: History of Medicine: General Works, Social or Sociopolitical Histories of Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 1685.1

History and geography of the most important diseases.

New York: Hafner, 1965.

Originally published in German, 1963.



Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology, Geography of Disease / Health Geography › History of Geography of Disease
  • 1766.607

Medicine at the Paris Hospital 1794-1848.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › France, Education, Biomedical, & Biomedical Profession › History of Biomedical Education & Medical Profession
  • 6467.2

Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.

See also No. 6448



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine
  • 2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

New York: Hafner, 1973.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › History of Nutrition / Diet, THERAPEUTICS › History of Therapeutics, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine