1959 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006)
Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian.
Davis was a personal friend of Kelly for twenty years. She based this biography partly on Kelly's notebooks and journals that Kelly left her upon his death.
GMN 13591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15870
1961 MONARDES, Nicolás Bautista (1493 – 1588); GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
Nicolás Bautista Monardes: Su vida y su obra, ca. 1493-1588.
GMN 13590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15869
1964 O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.
GMN 12693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14938
1966 MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628 – 1694); ADELMANN, Howard Bernhardt (1898 – 1988)
Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology. 5 vols.
Vol. 1 is an exhaustive biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology, and annotated English translations of Nos. 468 & 469.
GMN 534.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1787
1966 HARVEY, William (1578 – 1657); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The life of William Harvey.
GMN 14342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16671
1969 ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
GMN 7540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9712
1974 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); BAGLIVI, Giorgio (1668 – 1707); SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989)
The Baglivi correspondence from the library of Sir William Osler. Edited by Dorothy Schullian.
Sir William Osler wrote to S. Weir Mitchell in 1908, "I buy a few good things now and again. I had a find last week, 140 original letters to Baglivi, 17th century ‑ from Redi, Malpighi, Pitcairn, Bellini, and the famo…
GMN 8758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10936
1974 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
The Darwin correspondence project.
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/" "Search over 12000 letters and articles..."
GMN 10551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12744
1982 RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840); FITZPATRICK, T. J.; BOEWE, Charles Ernest (1924 – 2016)
Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque: A sketch of his life with bibliography [of his writings]. Revised and enlarged by Charles Boewe.
See also Boewe's The life of C.S. Rafinesque a man of uncommon zeal. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2011.
GMN 11217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13414
1983 EVANS, Thomas Wilberger (1823 – 1897); CARSON, Gerald Hewes (1899 – 1989)
The dentist and the empress: The adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in gas-lit Paris.
"Dr. Thomas W. Evans, a Philadelphia dentist of pioneering skill and great charm, moved in the highest circles of France's Second Empire. His expertise gave American dentistry a special distinction, while his discreti…
GMN 12852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15099
1985 JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823); LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)
A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823
Revised second edition of Lefanu's A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner (1951). The annotations in this bibliography form a kind of biographical narrative of Jenner's life and achievements.
GMN 11206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13403
1986 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); OGDEN, Henry Vining (1857 – 1931); WEISTROP, Leonard
The life and letters of Dr. Henry Vining Ogden, 1857-1931 by Leonard Weistrop.
Ogden was one of William Osler's closest life-long friends and correspondents. Weistrop was able to find and reproduce 334 letters between Ogden, Osler, and Cushing.
GMN 11635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13836
1987 DOCK, George (1860 – 1951); DAVENPORT, Horace Willard (1913 – 2005)
Doctor Dock: Teaching and learning medicine at the turn of the century
"From 1899 to 1900 fourth year medical students at the University of Michigan doing their medicine and surgery rotations attended a diagnostic clinic twice a week with George Dock, A.M., M.D., professor of theory and …
GMN 11585 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13784
1991 BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941); CROSBY, Ranice W. (1915 – 2007); CODY, John (1925 – 2016)
Max Brödel, The man who put art into medicine
In the late 1890s, Brödel was brought to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. Besides creating a prolific amount of work B…
GMN 10202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12391
1994 WOLFE, Richard J.; MENCZER, Leonard F. (1917 – 1994)
I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.
Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.
GMN 7647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9819
1994 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); CHAPMAN, Carelton B. (1915 – 2000)
Order out of chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's coming of age.
GMN 11262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13459
1995 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)
The private science of Louis Pasteur.
"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…
GMN 11019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13215
1995 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893); GELFAND, Toby (1942 – ); GOETZ, Christopher G.; BONDUELLE, Michel
Charcot: Constructing neurology
An essential account of the life and contributions of Charcot.
GMN 11456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13655
1998 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826); DUFFIN, Jacalyn Mary (1950 – )
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise on Med…
GMN 13599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15878
1998 ABBOTT, Anderson Ruffin (1837 – 1913)
Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor
"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…
GMN 14153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16468
1999 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
William Osler: A life in medicine.
The most significant biography of Sir William Osler since Harvey Cushing's work published in 1925.
GMN 11029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13225
1999 VARDANYAN, Stella Armenaki (1934 – ); AMASIATSI, Amirdovlat (1420 – 1496)
Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, a Fifteenth-Century Armenian Natural Historian and Physician.
GMN 12564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14803
1999 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); NULAND, Sherwin Bernard (1930 – 2014)
The saint.
https://newrepublic.com/article/116863/sherwin-nuland-william-osler One of the best late 20th century summaries of Osler's life and significance in the form of a review of Michael Bliss's Sir William Osler: A life in …
GMN 13589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15867
2001 MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819 – 1868); WOLFE, Richard J.
Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy
The most comprehensive biography of Morton, and the most comprehensive account of the ether controversy between Morton and Charles Thomas Jackson.
GMN 6903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9067
2002 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); LONGO, Lawrence D. (1926 – 2016); TEIGEN, Philip M.
"Dearest G ...Yours WO." William Osler's letters from Egypt to Grace Revere Osler. Edited by Lawrence D. Long and Philip M. Teigen.
GMN 13633 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15914
2003 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
La medicina en el exilio republicano.
Biographies of more than one thousand exiled veterinarians, dentists, clinicians, and pharmacists who, like Guerra, left Spain after the Civil War of 1936-39.
GMN 13322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15589
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 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934); WOLFE, Richard J.; DOLMAN, Claude Ernest (1906 – 1994)
Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist
GMN 7648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9820
2005 FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611); KASSELL, Lauren
Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician
GMN 10548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12741
2006 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790); FINGER, Stanley
Dr. Franklin's medicine
The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.
GMN 8596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10773
2007 WOLFE, Richard J.; JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880); PATTERSON, Richard
Charles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America
The first biography of Jackson, the physician and geologist who discoverered of the anesthetic effects of ether, and also played an important role in the discovery of the American electro-magnetic telegraph. Forms a s…
GMN 7646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9818
2007 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.
A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.
GMN 11030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13226
2007 KENNEDY, Pagan (1963 – )
The first man-made man: The story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution.
A biography of Michael Dillon, who in the 1940s was the first successful case of female-to-male gender reassignment surgery--operations done by Sir Harold Gilles. Dillon established himself as a medical student. The b…
GMN 11361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13560
2007 RETZIUS, Magnus Gustaf (1842 – 1919); LINDBLAD, Thomas
Gustaf Retzius: A Biography by Thomas Lindblad. With special contributions by Gunnar Grant, Björn Afzelius, Olle Johansson & Markku Virtanen, Helge Rask-Andersen, Torstein Sjøvold. Editor: Ove Hagelin.
A finely written and superbly illustrated and produced study of Retzius's life and published works, issued in the style of Retzius's magnificent publications.
GMN 14074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16385
2008 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…
GMN 13653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15934
2009 DEBSCHITZ, Uta von; DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.
Text and captions in English and German.
GMN 7650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9822
2009 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – ); PODOLSKY, Scott Harris (1970 – )
Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and man of letters. Edited by Scott. H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan.
GMN 11258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13455
2010 RUYSCH, Frederik (1638 – 1731); KOOIJMANS, Luuc
Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.
GMN 7656 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9828
2010 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversi…
GMN 13652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15933
2011 CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906); CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934); REDNISS, Lauren
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout.
This very beautiful biographical work on the Curies is also an artist's book, with every page filled with artistic imagery drawn by the artist. It has been characterized as part history, part love story, part artwork.…
GMN 10562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12755
2012 SCHROEDER-LEIN, Glenna R. (1951 – )
Lincoln and medicine.
GMN 10290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12481
2013 DEBSCHITZ, Uta von; DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
Fritz Kahn.
Text and captions in English, French and German.
GMN 7651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9823
2014 KELLOGG, John Harvey (1852 – 1943); WILSON, Brian C.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the religion of biologic living.
"Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the 'San' was …
GMN 11195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13392
2015 LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712); ROOS, Anna Marie
The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume one: 1662-1677. Edited and translated by Anna Marie Roos.
GMN 12980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15228
2019 GALL, Franz Joseph (1758 – 1828); FINGER, Stanley; ELING, Paulus Alphons Theresia Maria (Paul) (1951 – )
Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain
GMN 11274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13471
2019 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891); GÄCHTER, Afsaneh
Deer Leibarzt des Schah Jacob E. Polak 1818-1891. Eine west-östliche Lebensgeschichte.
GMN 14040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16348
2020 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); BRYAN, Charles Stone (1942 – )
Sir William Osler: An encyclopedia. Edited by Charles S. Bryan.
The definitive reference on Sir William Osler, his life, his times, his friends, and his influence. Osler was voted "the most influential physician in history" in a 2016 survey of North American doctors, but his inter…
GMN 12042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14250
2021 CABANÈS, Augustin (1862 – 1928); HUTIN, Jean-François
Augustin Cabanès (1862-1928): Clinicien de l'histoire ou vulgaire anecdotier?
GMN 14122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16433
2022 MORE, Ellen S.; CALDERONE, Mary Steichen (1904 – 1998)
The transformation of American sex education: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health.
GMN 13903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16195
2023 FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
Freud's antiquity: Object / Idea / Desire. Exhibition catalogue 25/02/2023 -16/07/2023. Edited by Richard Armstrong, Miriam Leonard, Daniel Orrells, Tom DeRose & Karolina Heller.
An interpretive exhibition catalogue explaining the relationship of Freud's large collection of antiquities preserved in the Freud Museum to ideas that Freud developed in psychoanalysis.
GMN 14158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16473
