1920 HESS, Alfred Fabian (1875 – 1933)
Scurvy, past and present.
Includes a history and bibliography.
GMN 3723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4493
1932 SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971)
Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.
GMN 1092.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/882
1939 DRUMMOND, Sir Jack Cecil (1891 – 1952); WILBRAHAM, Anne
The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.
Revised edition, 1958.
GMN 1092.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1119
1957 MCCOLLUM, Elmer Verner (1879 – 1967)
A history of nutrition.
GMN 1092.52 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/893
1965 BÖTTCHER, Helmuth Maximillian (1895 – 1979)
Das Vitaminbuch. Die Geschichte der Vitaminforschung.
GMN 1092.53 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/903
1973 ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.
Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.
GMN 2068.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2458
1977 DARBY, William Jefferson (1913 – 2001); GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987); GRIVETTI, Louis Evan (1938 – )
Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.
Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.
GMN 1092.54 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/909
1986 CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)
The history of scurvy and vitamin C.
GMN 3726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4499
1986 STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )
A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.
GMN 7957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10132
1989 TANNAHILL, Reay (1929 – 2007)
Food in history. Revised and updated edition
Digital version available at this link.
GMN 7424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9596
1989 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
GMN 12414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14644
1990 ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
GMN 7513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9685
1992 DARBY, William Jefferson (1913 – 2001); JUKES, Thomas Hughes (1906 – 1999)
Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.
GMN 7195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9362
1992 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
GMN 11054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13250
1994 CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)
Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.
GMN 12207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14417
1995 DELLUC, Brigitte (1936 – ); DELLUC, Gilles (1934 – )
La nutrition préhistorique.
GMN 9929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12117
1998 BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016)
Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples
Originally published in 1969.
GMN 8032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10208
1999 BERGDOLT, Klaus (1947 – )
Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.
Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).
GMN 8511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10688
2000 KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016); ORNELAS, Kriemhild Coneè
The Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols.
An encyclopedic work in 2153 pages; edited by Kiple and Ornelas.
GMN 7425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9597
2000 GRELL, Ole Peter (1950 – ); CUNNINGHAM, Andrew
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.
GMN 8360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10536
2000 CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)
Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.
GMN 12208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14418
2001 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.
GMN 7840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10012
2001 RILEY, James C. (1943 – )
Rising life expectancy: A global history.
"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…
GMN 8396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10573
2003 BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002); POSER, Charles Marcel (1923 – 2010)
The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.
GMN 9452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11635
2006 TUCKER, Todd (1968 – )
The great starvation experiment: Ancel Keys and the men who starved for science.
GMN 8780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10958
2007 BRAY, George A. (1931 – )
The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.
GMN 7059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9226
2009 GRIVETTI, Louis Evan (1938 – ); SHAPIRO, Howard-Yana
Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.
GMN 8317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10493
2009 WOOLGAR, Chris M. (1956 – ); SERJEANTSON, Dale; WALDRON, T.
Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.
GMN 9258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11440
2009 MCNEIL, Cameron L.
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
GMN 10443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12636
2010 BARONA VILAR, Josep Lluís (1955 – )
The problem of nutrition: Experimental science, public health and economy in Europe 1914-1945.
GMN 8060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10236
2010 TRUSWELL, Arthur Stewart
Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.
"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…
GMN 12377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14602
2012 WILSON, Philip K.; HURST, W. Jeffrey
Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
GMN 8799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10977
2013 SPARY, Emma C.
Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760.
GMN 8037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10213
2014 SPARY, Emma C.
Feeding France: New sciences of food, 1760-1815.
GMN 8038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10214
2014 ANDERSON, Eugene N. (1946 – )
Food and environment in early and medieval China.
GMN 8584 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10761
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 SMITH, Matthew
Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.
GMN 8043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10219
2016 GENTILCORE, David (1961 – )
Food and health in early modern Europe: Diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800.
GMN 8047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10223
2016 WOOLGAR, Chris M. (1956 – )
The culture of food in England 1200-1500.
GMN 9257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11439
2020 WILLIAMS, Elizabeth A. (1950 – )
Appetite and its discontents: Science, medicine, and the urge to eat, 1750-1850.
GMN 12627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14867
2020 MANGHAM, Andrew (1979 – )
The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy.
GMN 13774 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16061