1784 RECALDE, Abbé de
Abrégé historique des hopitaux, contenant leur origine, les différentes especes d’hopitaux, d’hospitaliers et hospitalieres, et les suppressions et changemens faits dans les hôpitaux, en France, par les édits et réglemens de nos rois .…
A history of hospitals in France from the earliest times, through charitable care for the poor by monks and nuns, to their evolution through legislation of the 16th and 17yh centuries. Includes a list of charitable in…
GMN 14051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16361
1789 MAULE, John (1748 – 1825); COOKE, John (1738 – 1823)
A historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. M,DCC,LXXXIX.
"This describes the former Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, originally designed in 1664 by John Webb as a palace, and afterwards adapted for use as a Naval Hospital by Sir Christopher Wren, with the assistance of Ni…
GMN 13686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15968
1867 HOLSTEIN, Anna Morris (1824 – 1900)
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15616
1872 BOWDITCH, Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805 – 1861); ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10790
1888 CARRIER, Henriette
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15742
1891 –1893 BURDETT, Sir Henry Charles (1847 – 1920)
Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.
This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…
GMN 1628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1989
1892 WILKS, Sir Samuel (1824 – 1911); BETTANY, George Thomas (1850 – 1891)
A biographical history of Guy's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9668
1893 CARLISLE, Robert J. (1859 – )
An account of Bellevue Hospital with a catalogue of the medical and surgical staff from 1736 to 1894. Edited by Robert J. Carlisle.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11292 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13489
1897 WOODBURY, Frank (1848 – 1927); MORTON, Thomas George (1835 – 1903)
The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10903
1898 BRADFORD, Thomas Lindsley (1847 – 1898)
History of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania; The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Now Drexel University College of Medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15486
1905 LAWRENCE, Charles (1837 – )
History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10866
1909 CLAY, Rotha Mary
The mediaeval hospitals of England.
Reprinted London 1966.
GMN 6519.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8091
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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