Global Health · Garrison-Morton-Norman

Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1852	Procès-verbaux de la Conférence Sanitaire Internationale ouverte a Paris le 27 juillet 1851. 2 vols. Public Health	MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES
1862	Un souvenir de Solferino. Military Medicine Nobel Prizes	DUNANT, Jean Henri (1828 – 1910)
1879	The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention Epidemiology & Demography Ethics & Law Historiography & General Works	BAKER, Sir George Edward Dunstan Sherston (1846 – 1923)
1898	The Red Cross in peace and war. Military Medicine Professions & Education Women & Gender	BARTON, Clarissa (1821 – 1912)
1912	On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339. Epidemiology & Demography Historiography & General Works	BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922)
1920	Report on the pandemic of influenza 1918-19. Microbiology & Virology	GREAT BRITAIN. MINISTRY OF HEALTH
1925	La Société des Nations et la politique sanitaire internationale. Public Health	LACAISSE, René
1944	Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service. Epidemiology & Demography Natural History & Evolution	SIMMONS, James Stevens (1890 – 1954) WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – ) ANDERSON, Gaylord West (1901 – 1979) HORACK, Harold Maclachlan (1912 – 1977)
1945	Bibliography of the technical work of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, 1920-1945. Public Health Bibliography & Catalogs	LEAGUE OF NATIONS, Health Organization of (1920 – 1946)
1948	The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944. Americas (non-U.S.) Public Health Historiography & General Works	MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)
1951	The cost of sickness and the price of health. WHO Monograph Series 7. Public Health Professions & Education	WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957)
1954	Plague. Plagues & Epidemics	POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
1954	La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud. Americas (non-U.S.) Public Health Historiography & General Works	PAZ-SOLDÁN, C. E.
1955	The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954. Americas (non-U.S.) Public Health Historiography & General Works	BUSTAMENTE VASCONCELOS, Miguel E. (1898 – 1986)
1958	The first ten years of the World Health Organization. Public Health	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
1958	Bibliography of international congresses of medical sciences. Prepared by W. J. Bishop under the auspices of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences with the financial assistance of Unesco. Public Health Bibliography & Catalogs	BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961)
1959	Cholera. Plagues & Epidemics	POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
1960	Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958. Microbiology & Virology Bibliography & Catalogs	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
1963	Bibliography of yaws, 1905-62. Microbiology & Virology Bibliography & Catalogs	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
1963	Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima. Military Medicine Hospitals & Institutions Historiography & General Works	BOISSIER, Pierre (1920 – 1974)
1963	World health and history. Public Health Historiography & General Works	HOBSON, William
1965	Bibliography of hookworm disease (ancylostomiasis) 1920-62. Microbiology & Virology Bibliography & Catalogs	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
1971	International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed. Public Health Historiography & General Works	GOODMAN, Neville Marriot (1898 – 1980)
1975	The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938. Public Health Historiography & General Works	HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
1978	Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima. Military Medicine Hospitals & Institutions Historiography & General Works	DURAND, André (1912 – 2008)
1978	International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems. Public Health Historiography & General Works	HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
1980	The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication. Microbiology & Virology	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
1981	The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution. Public Health Historiography & General Works	HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
1988	Smallpox and its eradication. Microbiology & Virology Historiography & General Works	FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010) HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016) ARITA, Isao (1926 – ) JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019) LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)
1995	International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling. Public Health Historiography & General Works	WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )
1997	Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin. Public Health Encyclopedias & Collected Works	SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )
2003	Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world Plagues & Epidemics Biography	FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022) KIDDER, John Tracy (1945 – )
2004	To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951). Public Health Historiography & General Works	FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)
2005	The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross. Military Medicine Hospitals & Institutions Historiography & General Works	FORSYTHE, David P. (1941 – )
2006	The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965. Public Health Natural History & Evolution Social & Political History	STAPLES, Amy L. S.
2007	De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:) Military Medicine Hospitals & Institutions Historiography & General Works	REY-SCHYRR, Catherine
2008	La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945). Europe & United Kingdom Public Health Historiography & General Works	BARONA VILAR, Josep Lluís (1955 – ) BERNABEU-MESTRE, Josep (1957 – )
2009	De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.) Military Medicine Hospitals & Institutions Historiography & General Works	BUGNION, François PERRET, Françoise
2009	Coming to terms with world health: The League of Nations Health Organization 1921-1946. Public Health Historiography & General Works	BOROWY, Iris (1962 – )
2011	Innovations médicales en situations humanitaires: La travail de Médecins Sans Frontières. Public Health	BRADOL, Jean-Hervé VIDAL, Claudine
2011	House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox. Plagues & Epidemics	FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
2012	Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition. Public Health Bibliography & Catalogs Historiography & General Works	LEE, Kelly (1962 – ) FANG, Jennifer
2015	The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945. Public Health Historiography & General Works	BARONA VILAR, Josep Lluís (1955 – )
2015	In search of the perfect health system. Public Health Social & Political History	BRITNELL, Mark Douglas (1966 – )
2016	WHO Historical collection. Public Health Diagnostics & Imaging Historiography & General Works	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
2016	Wikipedia Timeline of global health. Public Health Diagnostics & Imaging Encyclopedias & Collected Works Historiography & General Works	WIKIPEDIA
2016	WHO Model list of essential medicines. Public Health Diagnostics & Imaging Bibliography & Catalogs	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WIKIPEDIA
2016	International Committee of the Red Cross: History. Military Medicine Diagnostics & Imaging Hospitals & Institutions Historiography & General Works	INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
2016	A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples. Public Health Historiography & General Works	PACKARD, Randall M. (1945 – )
2016	Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford. Public Health Historiography & General Works	BASHFORD, Alison (1963 – )

1852 MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES

Procès-verbaux de la Conférence Sanitaire Internationale ouverte a Paris le 27 juillet 1851. 2 vols.

Reports of the first international public health conference, in which the representatives of 12 European states conferred from July 27, 1851 to January 19, 1852. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 1610.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10668

1862 DUNANT, Jean Henri (1828 – 1910)

Un souvenir de Solferino.

Dunant’s account of the great sufferings endured by the wounded at Solferino inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863, and resulted in the Geneva Convention of 1864. In 1901…

GMN 2166 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1099

1879 BAKER, Sir George Edward Dunstan Sherston (1846 – 1923)

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9028 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11207

1898 BARTON, Clarissa (1821 – 1912)

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

GMN 7058 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9225

1912 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922)

On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.

Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…

GMN 8407 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10584

1920 GREAT BRITAIN. MINISTRY OF HEALTH

Report on the pandemic of influenza 1918-19.

Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, No. 4. The most widespread and serious pandemic of influenza occurred in 1918-19. It spread throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, S. America, New Zealand, Australia, Africa,…

GMN 5492 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6441

1925 LACAISSE, René

La Société des Nations et la politique sanitaire internationale.

Health work of the League of Nations.

GMN 9038 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11217

1944 SIMMONS, James Stevens (1890 – 1954); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – ); ANDERSON, Gaylord West (1901 – 1979); HORACK, Harold Maclachlan (1912 – 1977)

Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.

GMN 9032 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11211

1945 LEAGUE OF NATIONS, Health Organization of (1920 – 1946)

Bibliography of the technical work of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, 1920-1945.

GMN 8057 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10233

1948 MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

GMN 9024 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11203

1951 WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957)

The cost of sickness and the price of health. WHO Monograph Series 7.

Digital facsimile from WHO.int at this link.

GMN 9266 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11448

1954 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)

Plague.

Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.

GMN 5131 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6138

1954 PAZ-SOLDÁN, C. E.

La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.

GMN 9031 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11210

1955 BUSTAMENTE VASCONCELOS, Miguel E. (1898 – 1986)

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

GMN 9027 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11206

1958 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

The first ten years of the World Health Organization.

Digital facsimile from who.int at this link.

GMN 9022 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11201

1958 BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961)

Bibliography of international congresses of medical sciences. Prepared by W. J. Bishop under the auspices of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences with the financial assistance of Unesco.

GMN 9232 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11414

1959 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)

Cholera.

Includes a section on the history of cholera. WHO Monograph Series,No. 43.

GMN 5111.4 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6070

1960 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958.

Continues and supplements Nos. 5352 and 5352.1

GMN 5352.4 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6924

1963 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of yaws, 1905-62.

Over 1,700 items.

GMN 5308.3 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6570

1963 BOISSIER, Pierre (1920 – 1974)

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).

GMN 8161 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10337

1963 HOBSON, William

World health and history.

GMN 9023 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11202

1965 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of hookworm disease (ancylostomiasis) 1920-62.

GMN 5369.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7000

1971 GOODMAN, Neville Marriot (1898 – 1980)

International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.

A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.

GMN 1671.7 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2308

1975 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)

The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.

First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.

GMN 1671.8 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2313

1978 DURAND, André (1912 – 2008)

Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.

English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).

GMN 8162 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10338

1978 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)

International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.

GMN 12121 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14330

1980 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a specimen of v…

GMN 5434.2 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8621

1981 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)

The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.

GMN 12120 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14329

1988 FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010); HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016); ARITA, Isao (1926 – ); JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

GMN 7549 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9721

1995 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )

International health organisations and movements, 1918-1939. Edited by Paul Weindling.

GMN 8058 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10234

1997 SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )

Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

Second edition, significantly revised and expanded, 2016.

GMN 9457 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11640

2003 FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022); KIDDER, John Tracy (1945 – )

Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world

Traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.

GMN 14155 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16470

2004 FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

GMN 9263 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11445

2005 FORSYTHE, David P. (1941 – )

The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.

GMN 8166 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10342

2006 STAPLES, Amy L. S.

The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.

GMN 9265 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11447

2007 REY-SCHYRR, Catherine

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

GMN 8163 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10339

2008 BARONA VILAR, Josep Lluís (1955 – ); BERNABEU-MESTRE, Josep (1957 – )

La salud y el Estado: El movimiento sanitario internacional y la administración española (1851-1945).

GMN 10732 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12926

2009 BUGNION, François; PERRET, Françoise

De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.)

GMN 8164 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10340

2009 BOROWY, Iris (1962 – )

Coming to terms with world health: The League of Nations Health Organization 1921-1946.

GMN 8886 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11064

2011 BRADOL, Jean-Hervé; VIDAL, Claudine

Innovations médicales en situations humanitaires: La travail de Médecins Sans Frontières.

Translated into English as Medical innovations in humanitarian situations: The work of Médecins San Frontières (20).

GMN 8888 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11066

2011 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )

House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.

Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]

GMN 10625 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12818

2012 LEE, Kelly (1962 – ); FANG, Jennifer

Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization. Second edition.

Covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and p…

GMN 8059 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10235

2015 BARONA VILAR, Josep Lluís (1955 – )

The Rockefeller Foundation, public health and international diplomacy, 1920–1945.

The role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of sprea…

GMN 9039 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11218

2015 BRITNELL, Mark Douglas (1966 – )

In search of the perfect health system.

"With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay design…

GMN 9636 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11823

2016 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

WHO Historical collection.

Background Disease classifications and nomenclature documents History of international health organizations documents League of Nations malaria documents Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology

GMN 8062 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10238

2016 WIKIPEDIA

Wikipedia Timeline of global health.

1.Big picture 1.1Late 1700s–1930s (pre-WWII era) 1.21940s–early 1960s (post-WWII era) 1.3Late 1960s–1970s 1.41980s–2000 1.52000s and beyond 2.Full timeline 2.1Inclusion criteria 2.2Timeline 3.See also 3.1General 3.2Di…

GMN 8063 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10239

2016 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WIKIPEDIA

WHO Model list of essential medicines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Medicines (accessed 12-2016). The first list, published in 1977, included 204 pharmaceutical drugs.[1] The WHO updates the list every two years. The WHO later …

GMN 8064 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10240

2016 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

GMN 8165 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10341

2016 PACKARD, Randall M. (1945 – )

A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples.

GMN 9238 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11420

2016 BASHFORD, Alison (1963 – )

Quarantine: Local and global histories. Edited by Alison Bashford.

GMN 11496 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13695