1959 BLAKE, John Ballard (1922 – 2006)
Public health in the town of Boston, 1630-1822.
GMN 13800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16087
1961 DAINTON, Courtney
The story of England’s hospitals.
GMN 1671.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2293
1962 –1968 HENRIQUES, Louis Fernando (1916 – 1976)
Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.
GMN 1671.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2295
1962 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910); BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961); GOLDIE, Sue M.
A bio-bibliography of Florence Nightingale.
Completed and edited for publication by Sue M. Goldie after the death of William J. Bishop.
GMN 13164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15423
1963 FINCH, Bernard Ephraim
Contraception through the ages.
GMN 1671.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2298
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
1963 HOBSON, William
World health and history.
GMN 9023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11202
1964 U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TERRY, Luther (1911 – 1985)
Smoking and health: report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.
Definitive 386-page throughly documented study of the carcinogenic and pulmonologic effects of smoking, and the addictive aspects of nicotine. It was published under the supervision of Surgeon-General Luther Terry. Di…
GMN 7385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9557
1964 SCHWABE, Calvin W. (1927 – 2006)
Veterinary medicine and human health.
Foundational work on veterinary epidemiology. At the University of California, Davis in 1966 Schwabe founded the first epidemiology department and graduate program in a school of veterinary medicine. Unusually extensi…
GMN 10363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12555
1965 LÜTH, Paul Egon Heinrich (1921 – 1986)
Geschichte der Geriatrie. Dreitausend Jahre Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie des alten Menschen.
GMN 1671.61 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2301
1965 U.S. PRESIDENT'S SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Restoring the quality of our environment. Report of The Environmental Pollution Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee.
Digital facsimile available at this link.
GMN 7422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9594
1967 LEISTIKOW, Dankwart (1926 – 2010)
Ten centuries of European hospital architecture.
GMN 1671.62 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2304
1968 SCHENDEL, Gordon
Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.
In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.
GMN 7836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10008
1970 GOFMAN, John William (1918 – 2007); TAMPLIN, Arthur R.
Low dose radiation and cancer.
This paper, delivered at the 1969 Nuclear Science Symposium and Nuclear Power Systems Engineering Symposium, October, 1969, provided powerful scientific evidence that the then currently allowable radiation dose (Feder…
GMN 7761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9933
1971 GOODMAN, Neville Marriot (1898 – 1980)
International health organizations and their work. 2nd ed.
A systematic account of international health work from its beginnings to modern times. First published 1952.
GMN 1671.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2308
1972 ROSENKRANTZ, Barbara Gutman (1923 – 2014)
Public health and the state: Changing views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936.
GMN 12490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14723
1973 MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010)
The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.
Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…
GMN 8902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11080
1973 QUINN, Joseph R.
Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12413
1974 ROSEN, George (1910 – 1977)
From medical police to social medicine.
GMN 11327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13525
1974 WHORTON, James C. (1942 – )
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.
GMN 12444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14676
1974 DUFFY, John (1915 – 1996)
A history of public health in New York City.
GMN 12491 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14724
1975 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences, 1851-1938.
First published in WHO Chronicle, 1974. 28, 159-71, 229-47, 369-84, 414-26, 455-70, 475-508. Available from apps.who.int at this link.
GMN 1671.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2313
1978 HATCHER, Robert Anthony; TRUSSELL, James; NELSON, Anita L.; KOWAL, Deborah; POLICAR, Michael
Contraceptive technology.
Standard work on the subject; 20th edition, New York: Arden Media, 2011. Hatcher originated the work in 1978. Collaborators on the 20th edition are Hatcher, Kowal, Nelson, Policar, and Trusell. An offshoot of the main…
GMN 7115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9282
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
1978 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.
GMN 12121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14330
1979 JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); BASU, Rabindra Nath (1928 – ); WARD, Nicholas Anthony (1936 – )
The eradication of smallpox from India.
GMN 13788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16075
1981 GOFMAN, John William (1918 – 2007)
Radiation and human health.
The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.
GMN 7760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9932
1981 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
GMN 8028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10204
1981 KNAUS, William A.
Inside Russian medicine: An American doctor's first-hand report. With research assistance by Nicholas A. Petroff.
A period piece but valuable for its professional assessment of the state of Russian medicine during the period.
GMN 10222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12412
1981 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)
The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.
GMN 12120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14329
1982 LEAVITT, Judith Walzer (1940 – )
The healthiest city: Milwaukee and the politics of health reform.
GMN 12492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14725
1982 STIKER, Henri-Jacques
Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.
Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. "The first book to attempt to provide a f…
GMN 14189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16505
1983 KUNITZ, Stephen J. (1938 – )
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
GMN 10217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12406
1987 FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
Disease and discovery: A history of the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene & Public Health 1916-1939.
GMN 11009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13205
1987 PATRICK, Ross (1914 – 2005)
A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.
GMN 12139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14348
1987 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910); GOLDIE, Sue M.
"I have done my duty." Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Edited by Sue M. Goldie.
Nightingale's correspondence, 1854-1856.
GMN 13165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15424
1988 FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010); HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016); ARITA, Isao (1926 – ); JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)
Smallpox and its eradication.
The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.
GMN 7549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9721
1988 ROSSIAUD, Jacques (1932 – )
La prostitution médiévale.
Translated into English as Medieval prostitution (1988)."In fifteenth-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but we…
GMN 9109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11288
1988 DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
Worker's health, workers' democracy: The Western miners' struggle, 1891-1925.
"The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both t…
GMN 13296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15562
1989 MULLAN, Fitzhugh (1942 – )
Plagues and politics: The story of the United States Public Health Service.
GMN 8727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10905
1989 DENOON, Donald John Noble (1940 – )
Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.
GMN 12552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14790
1990 DUFFY, John (1915 – 1996)
The sanitarians: A history of American public health.
GMN 7619 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9791
1990 HUTCHINSON, John F.
Politics and public health in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918.
GMN 9764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11952
1991 FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018); ACHESON, Roy M. (1921 – 2003)
A history of education in public health: Health that mocks doctors' rules.
"This is the first book to examine and compare the history and contemporary problems of education for public health in Britain and the United States. In Britain, education for public health has been directed solely to…
GMN 9760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11948
1992 ETHERIDGE, Elizabeth W.
Sentinel for health: A history of the Centers for Disease Control
GMN 8637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10814
1992 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
GMN 8804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10982
1992 LA BERGE, Anne Elizabeth Fowler (1944 – )
Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.
GMN 11134 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13330
1992 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902); ANDREE, Christian (1938 – )
Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.
From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …
GMN 11406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13605
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1994 HARRISON, Mark
Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
The first major study of public health in British India.
GMN 8802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10980
