1967 SOURKES, Theodore Lionel (1919 – 2015)
Nobel prize winners in medicine and physiology, 1910-1965.
Gives for each laureate a biographical sketch, description of work and its consequences, theoretical and practical.
GMN 6742.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8098
1967 JORGENSEN, Christine (1926 – 1989)
Christine Jorgensen: A personal autobiography.
GMN 14166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16481
1968 WATSON, James Dewey (1928 – )
The double helix. A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Vivid first hand account of the discovery, renowned for its candor. See also the Norton Critical Edition of The double helix with supporting material, edited by Gunther Stent (1980), and The annotated and illustrated …
GMN 7139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9306
1969 ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
GMN 7540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9712
1970 HAYMAKER, Webb Edward (1902 – 1984); SCHILLER, Francis (1909 – 2003)
The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.
Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…
GMN 5019.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6664
1970 –1990 GILLISPIE, Charles Coulston (1918 – 2015); HOLMES, Frederick Lawrence (1933 – 2003)
Dictionary of scientific biography. Vols. 1-16 (1-15, Supplement 1) edited by Charles Coulston Gillespie. Vols. 17-18 (Supplement 2) edited by Frederick L. Holmes.
Over 5,000 biographies, each with detailed bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Medical biographies tend to be of physiologists and other researchers rather than clinicians. Includes an exhaustive index an…
GMN 8192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10368
1970 TALBOTT, John Harold (1902 – 1990)
A biographical history of medicine: Excerpts and essays on the men and their work.
GMN 11527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13726
1972 BUCQUET, Marie-Christine
Index alphabétique et biographique du personnel médical pendant l’expédition d’Orient (Égypte-Syrie 1798-1801). Thèse de médecine.
Only a very small number of copies of this thesis appear to have been issued.
GMN 12055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14263
1972 FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto (1904 – 1979)
Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.
Translated into English by Hilary Davies as Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany (London: St. Martin's Press, 1974).
GMN 12233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14447
1973 KOREN, Nathan
Jewish physicians: A biographical index.
Over 9000 entries.
GMN 8687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10864
1974 PICKERING, Sir George White (1904 – 1980)
Creative malady: Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florenece Nightengale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
GMN 7777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9949
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
1974 MORRIS, Jan (1926 – )
Conundrum.
Morris underwent male to female sex change surgery by Georges Burou in Casablanca during the 1960s. As a much-published writer, her book was one of the first to draw wide attention to the phenomenon. New edition, with…
GMN 11356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13554
1976 PEEL, Sir John Harold (1904 – 2005)
The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.
GMN 6742.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8106
1976 GIFFORD, George E. Jr.
Physician signers of the Declaration of Independence.
GMN 8658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10835
1977 UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth (1899 – 1980)
Boerhaave's men at Leyden and after.
GMN 8781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10959
1977 –2019
Geographers biobibliographical studies. Vols. 1-38
Annual volumes edited by a changing group of experts. Ongoing.
GMN 13018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15268
1977 BRONSTEIN, Arthur J. (1914 – 2010); RAPHAEL, Lawrence J. (1938 – ); STEVENS, Cj
Biographical dictionary of the phonetic sciences.
GMN 13246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15511
1981 HOLLOWAY, Lisabeth M.
Medical obituaries. American physicians’ biographical notices in selected medical journals before 1907.
With E.N. Feind and G.N. Holloway.
GMN 6742.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8108
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
1982 KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
The gates of memory.
The autobiography of the great surgeon, bibliographer, scholar and book collector.
GMN 11294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13491
1983 HARDY, Harriet Louise (1906 – 1993)
Challenging man-made disease.
Hardy's "studies on beryllium began in 1945 when she started working for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Medicine. She studied factories that produced fluorescent bulbs in Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, Massachu…
GMN 10472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12665
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
1984 KAUFMAN, Martin (1940 – ); SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – ); GALISHOFF, Stuart (1940 – )
Dictionary of American medical biography. Edited by Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, and Todd L. Savitt. 2 vols.
GMN 6742.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8111
1984 LINDEBOOM, Gerrit Arie (1905 – 1986)
Dutch medical biography. A biographical dictionary of Dutch physicians and surgeons 1475-1975.
GMN 6742.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8114
1984 PESENTI, Tiziana
Professori e promotori di medicina nello studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509: Repertorio bio-bibliografico.
GMN 11899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14104
1984 BIGELOW, Wilfred Gordon (1913 – 2005)
Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.
GMN 12333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14557
1985 BUCY, Paul Clancy (1904 – 1992)
Neurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.
Brief biographical essays by various authors, edited by Bucy. The companion volume, Modern neurosurgical giants (1986) includes articles on living neurosurgeons, written by colleagues. Neither volume includes bibliogr…
GMN 5019.20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6708
1985 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009); MCGOVERN, John P. (1921 – 2007)
The collected essays of Sir William Osler. 3 vols. Edited by John P. McGovern and Charles G. Roland.
Vol. 1: The philosophical essays. Vol. 2: The educational essays. Vol. 3: The historical and biographical essays.
GMN 8883 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11061
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 BEIGHTON, Peter H. (1934 – ); BEIGHTON, Greta
The man behind the syndrome.
Portraits and biographies, emphasizing genetic syndromes. Followed by the authors' The person behind the syndrome (1997).
GMN 8606 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10783
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
1986 THOMAS, Vivien Theodore (1910 – 1985)
Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.
GMN 12376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14601
1986 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935); WOLFF, Charlotte (1897 – 1986)
Magnus Hirschfeld: A portrait of a pioneer in sexology.
GMN 13394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15665
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
1988 –2000 BULLOUGH, Vern Leroy (1928 – 2006)
American nursing: A biographical dictionary. 3 vols.
Edited with O.M. Church and A.P. Stein.
GMN 6639.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7746
1988 KAUFMAN, Martin (1940 – )
Dictionary of American nursing biography.
Edited with J.W. Hawkins, L.P. Higgins, and A.H. Friedman.
GMN 6639.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7748
1988 O'CONNOR, W. J. (1911 – 1994)
Founders of British physiology: A biographical dictionary, 1820-1885.
GMN 8732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10910
1989 MORTON, Leslie Thomas (1907 – 2004); MOORE, Robert John (1939 – )
A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography.
Collective and individual biographies. Confined to books in English published in the 19th-20th centuries. Revised and enlarged version of J.L. Thornton, A select bibliography of medical biography. 2nd ed., London, 1970.
GMN 6742.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8118
1990 ASHWAL, Stephen (1945 – )
The founders of child neurology. Edited by Stephen Ashwal.
125 biographical essays, with portraits and bibliographies, documenting the history of child neurology from the 17th century to the present.
GMN 5019.22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6715
1990 KASS-SIMON, Gabriele; FARNES, Patricia (1931 – 1985)
Women of Science. Righting the record. Edited by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes.
GMN 7165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9332
1990 SAMMONS, Vivian Lucille Ovelton (1925 – 2016)
Blacks in science and medicine.
GMN 8754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10932
1990 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993)
One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.
GMN 12649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14890
1991 ACADÉMIE NATIONALE DE MÉDECINE
Index biographique des membres, des associés et des correspondants de l’Académie de médecine: 1820-1990. 4th edition.
GMN 10163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12352
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
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 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); JOUANNA, Jacques (1935 – )
Hippocrate.
Translated into English by M. B. DeBevoise as Hippocrates, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
GMN 13533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15810
1993 ALBERT, Daniel Myron (1936 – ); HENKIND, Paul (1933 – 1986)
Men of vision: Lives of notable figures in ophthalmology.
GMN 7022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9189
1993
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOGRAPHY. 1-
GMN 7906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10079
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