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

1999 ORBINSKI, James Jude (1960 – )

Médecins Sans Frontières. Nobel Lecture.

In 1999 Orbinsky accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Médecins Sans Frontières “in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." He delivered the organization's Nobel Lecture, av…

GMN 14233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16551

2006 PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994); PAULING, Ava Helen (1903 – 1981)

The Pauling catalogue. Ava Helen and Linus Pauling papers at Oregon State University. Edited by Christoffer Petersen and Cliff Mead. 6 vols.

Vol. 1. Timeline, correspondence, publications, manuscripts & typescripts of articles, speechs, and books. Vol. 2. Science, Research Notebooks. 1917 Linus Pauling Diary. Vol. 3. Peace, Ava Helen Pauling, travel, honor…

GMN 13094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15346

2006 GORE, Albert Arnold Jr. (1948 – )

An inconvenient truth. The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.

A politician, Gore was one of the first to draw popular attention to climate change. He supplemented the best-selling book with a film and DVD with the same title. Ten years later, recognizing that in spite of its wid…

GMN 14048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16358

2007 CARTER, Jimmy (1924 – )

Beyond the White House, waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.

President Carter devoted half of this book to Guinea worm disease, nature of the illness, its epidemiology, its cause and the current importance from a public health and human suffering standpoint. Carter's leadership…

GMN 14128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16439