1908 KELLOGG, John Harvey (1852 – 1943)
The Battle Creek Sanitarium system: History, organization, methods.
"John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent r…
GMN 9307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11489
1909 CLAY, Rotha Mary
The mediaeval hospitals of England.
Reprinted London 1966.
GMN 6519.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8091
1911 AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.
GMN 8598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10775
1914 CODMAN, Ernest Amory (1869 – 1940)
A study in hospital efficiency as demonstrated by the case report of the first two years of a private hospital.
Pioneer application of efficiency engineering principles to hospital administration, made over a two year period. Codman was responsible for the “end result idea”. This revolutionary concept, which seems so obvious to…
GMN 1664.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2223
1916 –1917 HURD, Henry Mills (1843 – 1927); BLUMER, George Alder (1857 – 1940); BURGESS, Thomas Joseph Workman (1849 – 1926); PILGRIM, Charles Winfield (1855 – 1934); DREWRY, William Francis (1860 – 1934); DEWEY, Richard (1845 – 1933)
The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.
Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 5006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6576
1918 MOORE, Sir Norman (1847 – 1922)
The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10898
1918 STEVENS, Edward Fletcher (1860 – 1946)
The American hospital of the twentieth century: A treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century.
An architect, Stevens wrote from the hospital designer's point of view. Digital facsimile of the 1921 edition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15280
1927 LOVEJOY, Esther Pohl (1869 – 1967)
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
GMN 7842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10014
1929 CROSKEY, John Welsh (1858 – 1951)
History of Blockley: A history of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its inception, 1731-1928.
GMN 13404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15676
1932 –1934 PARSONS, Frederick Gymer (1863 – 1943)
The history of St. Thomas's Hospital. Vol. 1: From the earliest times until A.D. 1600. Vol. 2: From 1600 to 1800.
GMN 8738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10916
1936 JOHANNES DE MIRFELD ( – 1407); HARTLEY, Percival Horton-Smith (1867 – 1952); ALDRIDGE, Harold Richard
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
GMN 8456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10633
1939 HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790); BAUMGARTNER, Leona (1902 – 1991)
John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography
GMN 11239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13436
1939 SEYFARTH, Paul Carly (1890 – 1950)
Das Hospital zu St. Georg in Leipzig durch acht Jahrhunderte 1212–1940. Band 1. Das Hospital zu St. Georg vom Jahre 1212 bis zum Jahre 1631. (Vols. 2 & 3 not published).
GMN 13462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15736
1940 HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.
GMN 11638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13839
1942 BARKER, Lewellys Franklin (1867 – 1943)
Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.
Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…
GMN 12392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14619
1947 VALLERY-RADOT, Pierre (1889 – 1975)
Nos hôpitaux Parisiens. Un siècle d'histoire hospitalière. Deux siècles d'histoire hôpitalière de Henri IV à Louis-Philippe (1602-1836). 2 vols.
GMN 11066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13262
1948 –1963 CHESNEY, Alan Mason (1888 – 1964)
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.
GMN 10981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13177
1949 ALLEN, Max Scott
Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]
"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…
GMN 12019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14227
1957 PACKARD, Francis Randolph (1870 – 1950); GREIM, Florence M.
Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital from its first rise to the beginning of the year 1938. by Francis R. Packard. Second printing with a continuation of the account to the year 1956.
GMN 8736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10914
1961 DAINTON, Courtney
The story of England’s hospitals.
GMN 1671.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2293
1961 GARLAND, Joseph Everett (1922 – 2011)
Every man our neighbor: A brief history of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
GMN 10992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13188
1963 DAY, Hughes Winfield (1915 – 1990)
Preliminary studies of an acute coronary care area.
Hughes is credited with inventing the coronary care unit, and the "crash cart"
GMN 2883.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4277
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
1964 POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)
The evolution of hospitals in Britain. Edited by F. N. L. Poynter
14 papers delivered at the 3rd British Congress on the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, 1962, and a classified bibliography of British hospital history by E. Gaskell (pp. 225-79).
GMN 6550.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8204
1964 CANDILLE, Marcel
Etude du Livre de vie active de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris de Jehan Henry (XVe siècle).
GMN 8455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10632
1964 ABEL-SMITH, Brian (1926 – 1996)
The hospitals, 1800-1948: A study in social administration in England and Wales.
The first comprehensive account of the development of hospitals in England and Wales from the early nineteenth century down to the establishment of the English National Health Service.
GMN 10178 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12367
1967 LEISTIKOW, Dankwart (1926 – 2010)
Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.
GMN 1671.62 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2304
1974 COLLEN, Morris Frank (1913 – 2014)
Hospital computer systems: How to use computers in medical centers for better patient care. Edited by Morris F. Collen.
This is the first comprehensive book on the subject. The authors describe in detail, with numerous references, the limited hospital computer systems in operation at the time both in the United States and in Europe. Th…
GMN 8386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10563
1975 COSBIE, Waring Gerald (1894 – )
The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.
GMN 11649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13850
1975 GOLDIN, Grace; THOMPSON, John Daniel
The hospital: A social and architectural history.
"This book is about the hospital ward, also called the nursing unit or inpatient unit. Part 1 gives a history of nursing unit floor plans since roman times. Part 2 reviews contemporary planning problems. Part 3 contai…
GMN 13639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15920
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
1980 VOGEL, Morris J.
Invention of the modern hospital: Boston, 1870-1930.
GMN 9163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11342
1981 GILBO, Patrick
The American Red Cross: The first century.
Extensively illustrated with photographs.
GMN 8659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10836
1986 GALMICHE, Jean-Marie (1943 – )
Hygiène et médecine: Histoire et actualités des maladies nosocomiales.
History of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections.
GMN 9798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11986
1987 ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
The care of strangers: The rise of America’s hospital system.
GMN 6596.61 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8510
1988 COCO, Gregory Ashton (1946 – 2009)
A vast sea of misery: A history and guide to the Union and Confederate field hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1-November 20, 1863.
GMN 9794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11982
1989 STEVENS, Rosemary A.
In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century.
GMN 9138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11317
1989 PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002); GRANDSHAW, Lindsay [Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover] (1954 – )
The hospital in history. Edited by Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter.
GMN 9164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11343
1989 MORMAN, Edward T.
Efficiency, scientific management, and hospital standardization: An anthology of souyrces. Edited by Edward T. Morman.
GMN 12355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14579
1993 HENDRICKS, Ricky
A model for national health care: The history of Kaiser Permanente.
GMN 8179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10355
1995 GAMBLE, Vanessa Northington
Making a place for ourselves: The Black hospital movement 1920-1945.
GMN 8086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10262
1995 ORME, Nicholas; WEBSTER, Margaret
The English hospital 1070-1570.
"The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the sick at every level of society—from the gentry and clergy to pilgrims, travelers, beggars, …
GMN 13096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15348
1996 STOUT, Samuel Hollingsworth (1822 – 1903); SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Confederate hospitals on the move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.
GMN 10288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12479
1996 JÜTTE, Robert (1954 – ); FINZSCH, Norbert (1951 – )
Institutions of confinement: Hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950. Edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte.
GMN 13399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15671
1997 MILLER, Timothy S.
The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine empire.
When first published in 1985 this was the first monograph devoted solely to the history of Byzantine hospitals. Reissued with an extensive new introduction by the author in 1997.
GMN 7219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9387
1998 ROGERS, Naomi (1958 – )
An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.
"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…
GMN 10332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12524
1999 RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals.
GMN 7890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10062
1999 MOORHEAD, Caroline Mary (1944 – )
Dunant's dream: War, Switzerland and the history of the Red Cross.
GMN 13607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15887
2002 LEVIN, Laurie
Cedars-Sinai: The one-hundred year history of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: 1902-2002.
GMN 13283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15549
2005 FORSYTHE, David P. (1941 – )
The humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross.
GMN 8166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10342