Dr. Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D.

BOOK REVIEWS

Diana E. Manuel, ed., Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834-1835, (Medical History, Supplement No. 23), 2004. In  Bull. Hist. Med. 80 (2006): 211-12.

John Henderson, The Renaissance Hospital, 2006. In Med. Hist. 51 (2007): 552-53.

 Jürgen Helm and Renate Wilson,eds., Medical Theory and Therapeutic Practice in the Eighteenth Century: A Transatlantic Perspective, 2008. In Bull. Hist. Med. 84 (2010); 130-31.

 Annemarie Adams, Medicine By Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943, 2008. In Amer. Hist. Rev. 115 (2010): 211-12.

 Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard, eds., Hospital Life: Theory and Practice From the Medieval to the Modern, 2012. In Bull. Hist. Med. (in press)

Eduard Seidler and Karl–Heinz Leven, Geschichte der Medizin und der Krankenpflege, 7th ed., 2003. In Bull. Hist. Med. 79 (2005): 178.

Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides. 2001. In Bull. Hist. Med. 77 (2003): 451-52.

Owsei Temkin, On Second Thought and Other Essays. 2002, Reconstructing History, Essay Review, Med. Hist. 47 (2003): 108-112.

David Cowen, Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847. 2001. In Perspect. Biol. Med. 45 (2002): 470-72.

Keir Waddington, Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898. 2000. In Med. Hist. 46 (2002): 435-36.

Calixte Hudemann-Simon. Die Eroberung der Gesundheit, 1750-1900. 2000. In Bull. Hist. Med. 76 (2002): 603-4.

Eli Ginzberg, Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor. 2000. In Perspect. Biol. Med. 45 (2002): 147-49.

Saul Jarcho, The Clinical Consultations of Francesco Torti. 2000. In Bull. Hist. Med. 75 (2001): 573-74.

Christine Stevenson, Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospitals and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815. 2000. In Med. Hist. 45 (2000): 409-10.

Noble D. Cook, Born To Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. 1998. In Med. Hist. 44 (2000): 44-45.

M. L. Hildreth & B. T. Moran, Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West. 1998. In Pacific Historical Review (2000): 675-76.

Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. 1997. In Med. Hist. 43 (1999): 396-97.

Maruke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe. 1997. In Bull. Hist. Med. 73 (1999): 528-29.

C. Lawrence and G. Weiz, Holism in Biomedicine 1920-1950. 1998. In J.A.M.A. 281 (1999): 1344.

Jeremy Taylor, The Architect and the Pavilion Hospital. 1997. In Bull. Hist. Med. 73 (1999): 154-56.

Axel Karenberg, Lernen am Bett der Kranken. 1997. In Med. Hist. 43 (1999): 130.

Robert A. Aranowitz, Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society and Disease. 1998. In The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep 6, 1998.

M. Berg and G. Cocks, eds, Medicine and Modernity. 1997. In Med. Hist. 42 (1998): 525-26.

R. Porter, ed., Medicine in the Enlightenment. 1995. In Bull. Hist. Med. 72 (1998): 328-29.

Horacio Fabrega, Jr., Evolution of Sickness and Healing. 1997. In J. Soc. Hist. 32 (1998): 701-2.

C. Wills, Yellow Fever, Black Goddess. (1997). In Quart. Rev. Biol. 73 (1998): 113-14.

R. Porter, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. 1996. In Med. Hist. 42 (1998): 118-19.

Mary Lindemann, Health & Healing In Eighteenth-Century Germany. 1996. In J.A.M.A. 278 (1997): 1121-22.

T. Gould, A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors. 1995. In Isis 88 (1997): 165-66.

George Weisz, The Medical Mandarins. 1995. In J.A.M.A. 275 (1996): 952-53.

Francisco Guerra, El Hospital en Hispanoamerica y Filipinas, 1492-1898. 1994. In Bull. Hist. Med. 70 (1996): 537-38.

M. Dinges and T. Schlich, eds, Neue Wege in der Seuchengeschichte. 1995. In Med. Hist. 40 (1996): 397-99.

Volker Hess, Von der semiotischen zur diagnostischen Medizin. 1993. In Bull. Hist. Med. 70 (1996): 715-16.

Wolfhart Westendorf, Erwachen der Heilkunst: die Medizin im Alten Aegypten. 1992. In Bull. Hist. Med. 69 (1995): 661.

D. Porter and R. Porter, eds, Doctors, Politics, and Society. Historical Essays. 1993. In Med. Hist. 39 (1995): 250-51.

Roy Porter. ed. The Popularization of Medicine, 1650–1850. 1992. In Bull. Hist. Med. 69 (1995): 493-94.

Charles E. Rosenberg. Explaining Epidemics. 1992. In J.A.M.A. 271 (1994): 957.

Alan M. Kraut. Silent Travelers. Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace.” 1994. In Science 264 (10 June 1994): 1615-16

Margaret Humphreys. Yellow Fever and the South. 1992. In Soc. Hist. Med. 10 (1994): 333-34

Rolf Winau, ed. Technik and Medizin. 1993. In Med. Hist. 38 (1994): 223-24

A.R. David and E. Tapp, eds. The Mummy’s Tale. 1993. In New Engl. J. Med. 329 (1994) No 20: 1511-12

Lisa Rosner. Medical Education in the Age of Improvement: Edinburgh Students and Apprentices, 1760–1826. 1991. In History of Education Quart. 34 (1994): 86-87

Roy Porter. Doctor of Society. Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England. 1992. In Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 16 (1994): 149-150

R. French and A. Wear, eds. British Medicine in an Age of Reform. 1991. In Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 16 (1994): 155-56

N.D. Cook and W.G. Lovell, eds. “Secret Judgements of God”: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America. 1992. In Bull. Hist. Med. 67 (1993): 335–37.

Lois N. Magner. A History of Medicine. 1992. In New Engl. J. Med. 328, No. 11, (Mar 18, 1993): 818–19.

Mary E. Fissell. Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol. 1991. In Albion 24 (1992) No. 4: 658-60.

Claudia Wiesemann. Josef Dietl und der therapeutische Nihilismus: Zum historischen und politischen Hintergrund einer medizinischen These. 1991. In Bull. Hist. Med. 66 (1992): 482–83.

James H. Cassedy. Medicine in America: A Short History. 1991. In J.A.M.A. 267 (April 8, 1992): 1973.

Lester S. King. Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler. 1990. In J. Amer. Hist. (June 1992): 251–52.

Mary K. Matossian. Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and History. 1989. Agricultural History 66 (Winter 1992): 88–89.

K. D. Patterson. Pandemic Influenza, 1700–1900: A Study in Historical Epidemiology. 1986. In The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, New York: AMS Press, 1992, 14.

Mirko D. Grmek. History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic. 1990. In Bull. Hist. Med. 65 (1991): 604–6.

Claude Quetel. History of Syphilis. 1990. In Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. 13 (Dec. 1991): 479–80.

S. Jarcho, ed. and transl. Clinical Consultations and Letters by Ippolito Francesco Albertini, Francesco Torti and Other Physicians. 1989. In Isis 82 (1991): 383.

Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter. Patient’s Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. 1989. In J. Social History 25 (1991): 128–29.

Hilary Marland. Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield, 1780–1870. 1987. In Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 12 (1990): 66–67.

M. Weber. Georg C. G. Wedekind, 1761–1831: Werdegang und Schicksal eines Arztes im Zeitalter der Aufklärung und der Französischen Revolution. 1988 In Isis 82 (1991): 147–48.

D. A. Dow, ed. The Influence of Scottish Medicine: An Historical Assessment of its International Impact. 1988. In J. Hist. Med. 45 (1990): 116.

D. Arnold, ed. Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies. 1988, and R. MacLeod, and M. Lewis, eds. Disease, Medicine, and Empire. 1988. In Isis 81 (1990): 748–49.

Bruno Latour. The Pasteurization of France. 1988. In J.A.M.A. 262 (1989): 2452–53.

J. R. Smith. The Speckled Monster. 1987. In American Historical Review 94 (1989): 1366–67.

Sandra L. Orellana. Indian Medicine in Highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Period. 1987. In Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (1989): 811–12.

Huldrych M. Koelbing. Die Ärztliche Therapie: Grundzüge ihrer Geschichte. 1985. In Bull. Hist. Med. 63 (1989): 287–88.

James T. Patterson. The Dread Disease. Cancer and Modern American Culture. 1987, Med. Hist. 33 (1989): 259–60.

Irvine Loudon. Medical Care and the General Practitioner 1750–1850. 1986. In J. Hist. Med. 43 (1988): 486–87.

James C. Riley. The Eighteenth-Century Campaign to Avoid Disease. 1987. In Amer. J. Preventive Med. 4 (1988): 304.

Lindsay Granshaw. St. Mark’s Hospital, London. 1985. In Bull. Hist. Med. 62 (1988): 314–16.

Dorothy A. Stansfield. Thomas Beddoes, M.D., 1760–1808. 1984. In Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 10 (1988): 203–4.

Elizabeth Fee. Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939. 1978. In J.A.M.A. 258 (1987): 3568–69.

Ulrich Tröhler. Der Nobelpreistraeger Theodore Kocher, 1841–1917. 1984. In Bull. Hist. Med. 61 (1987): 667–68.

Daniel Williman, ed. The Black Death. The Impact of the Fourteenth-Century Plague. 1982. In Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 9 (1987): 352–53.

Roderick E. McGrew. Encyclopedia of Medical History. 1985. In Bull. Hist. Med. 61 (1987): 263–64.

W. F. Bynum and R. Porter, eds. William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century World. 1985. In Med. Hist. 31 (1987): 227–28.

Paul Starr. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. 1982. In Hist. Phil. Life Sci. 9 (1987): 375–76.

John T. Lanning. The Royal Protomedicato: The Regulation of the Medical Profession in the Spanish Empire. 1985. In Isis 77 (1986): 537–38.

A. Wear, R. K. French and I. M. Lonie. The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century. 1985. In J.A.M.A. 256 (1986): 2418–19.

Kenneth Dewhurst, ed. and trans. Richard Lower’s Vindicatio. 1983. In Hist. Phil. Life. Sci. 8 (1986): 334–35.

Georges Didi-Huberman. Invention de l’Hysterie. 1982. In Bull. Hist. Med. 60 (1986): 269–70.

Hans J. Schwanitz. Homeopathie und Brownianismus 1745–1944. 1983. In Bull. Hist. Med. 60 (1986): 127–28.

José M. López Piñero. Historical Origins of the Concept of Neurosis. 1983. In Isis 76 (1985): 425–26.

Robin Price, comp. An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 1983. In Bull. Hist. Med. 58 (1984): 450.

C. H. Brock, ed. William Hunter, 1718–1783: A Memoir by Samuel Foart Simmons and John Hunter. 1983. In Bull. Hist. Med. 58 (1984): 119–20.

Robert P. Hudson. Disease and its Control. 1983. In Amer. Scientist 72, no. 4 (1984): 405.

Esther Fischer-Homberger. Medizin vor Gericht. 1983. In Med. Hist. 28 (1984): 342.

D. A. E. Shephard and A. Levesque, eds. Norman Bethune: His Times and Legacy. 1982. In Bull. Hist. Med. 57 (1983): 476.

Adolf Kussmaul. Memoirs of an Old Physician. 1981. In Annals of Internal Medicine 99 (1983): 578.

Nelly Tsouyopoulos. Andreas Roeschlaub und die Romantische Medizin. 1982. In Isis 74 (1983): 599–600.

Johanna Bleker. Die Naturhistorische Schule 1825–1845. 1981. In Theoretical Medicine 4 (1983): 333–34.

Thomas Henkelmann. Zur Geschichte des pathophysiologischen Denkens; John Brown (1735–1788) und sein System der Medizin. 1981. In Bull. Hist. Med. 57 (1983): 300–1.

Erna Lesky. Meilensteine der Wiener Medizin. 1981. In Bull. Hist. Med. 57 (1983): 147.

Germán Somolinos d’Ardois. Capítulos de Historia Médica Mexicana. Vols. 1–4, 1978–1980. In Bull. Hist. Med. 56 (1982): 591–92.

Aidan and Eve Cockburn, eds. Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures. 1980. In Bull. Hist. Med. 56 (1982): 587–88.

A. L. Caplan, H. T. Engelhardt, Jr. and J. J. McCartney. Concepts of Health and Disease. 1981. In Annals of Internal Medicine 96, part I, no. 6 (1982): 797–98.

Saul Jarcho. The Concept of Heart Failure from Avicenna to Albertini. 1980. In Isis 73 (1982): 129–30.

E. T. Carlson, J. L. Wollock, and P. S. Noel. Benjamin Rush’s Lectures on the Mind. 1981. In J.A.M.A. 246 (1981): 1839–40.

Carlo M. Cipolla. Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy. 1981. In Wisconsin Academy Review 27 (1981): 35–36.

Pedro L. Entralgo. Historia de la Medicina. 1978. In Bull. Hist. Med. 55 (1981): 446–47.

Paul U. Unschuld. Medizin in China: Eine Ideengeschichte. 1980. In Amer. Hist. Rev. 86 (Oct. 1981): 902.

Elisabeth Bennion. Antique Medical Instruments. 1979. In Clio Medica 14 (1980): 142.

Todd L. Savitt. Medicine and Slavery, The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia. 1978. In Medical Anthropology Newsletter 11, no. 4 (Aug., 1980): 23–24.

Owen and Sarah D. Wangensteen. The Rise of Surgery from Empiric Craft to Scientific Discipline. 1978. In Annals of Science 37 (1980): 721–22.

Francesco Bujosa i Homar. La Academia Médico-Práctica de Mallorca (1788–1800). 1975. In J. Hist. Med. 35 (1980): 247.

Kenneth Dewhurst and Nigel Reeves. Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, Psychology and Literature. 1979. In Bull. Hist. Med. 54 (1980): 468–70.

Karl E. Rothschuh. Iatromagie, Begriff, Merkmale, Motive, Systematik. 1978. In Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences 30 (1980): 170–72.

Gerald L. Geison. Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology. 1978. In Annals of Science 37 (1979): 133–34.

José L. Valverde. Presencia de la Companía de Jesús en el Desarrollo de la Farmacia. 1978. In Pharmacy in Hist. 21 (1979): 133–34.

Joachim Moerchel. Die Nassauischen Badeärzte in Ihrer Wissenschaftlichen und Praktischen Tätigkeit 1816–1866. 1978. In J. Hist. Med. 34 (1979): 514–15.

Stanley J. Reiser. Medicine and the Reign of Technology. 1978. In J. Medical Education 54 (1979): 124.

Karl E. Rothschuh. Konzepte der Medizin in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. 1978. In Isis 70 (1979): 457–58.

J. Arechaga Martínez. La Anatomia Española en la Primera Mitad del Siglo XIX. 1977. In Isis 70 (1979): 179–80.

W. S. Craig. History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 1977. In Bull. Hist. Med. 53 (1979): 625–26.

Acta Congressus Internationalis XXIV, 24th International Congress of the History of Medicine, Budapest. Aug. 25–31, 1974. In Bull. Hist. Med. 53 (1979): 310–1.

Heinz Balmer. Albrecht von Haller. 1977, and Erich Hintzsche. Albrecht von Hallers Briefe an Auguste Tissot. 1977. In J. Hist. Med. 33 (1978): 559–60.

Frederick F. Cartwright. A Social History of Medicine. 1977. In Technology and Culture 19 (1978): 764–65.

E. A. E. Reymond, ed. A Medical Book from Crocodilopolis. 1976. In Bull. Hist. Med. 52 (1978): 287–88.

J. P. Dolan and W. N. Adams-Smith. Health and Society, a Documentary History of Medicine. 1978. In Annals of Internal Medicine 89 (1978): 433.

Erna Lesky. The Vienna Medical School of the 19th Century. 1976. In American Scientist 66 (1978): 255.

Charles Lichtenthaeler. Geschichte der Medizin. 1975. In Bull. Hist. Med. 52 (1978): 135–36.

R. K. French. Anatomical Education in a Scottish University (1620). 1975. In Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences 27 (1977): 167–68.

Frederick Eberson. Apostles and Prophets. 1977. In Annals of Internal Medicine 87 (1977): 3, 387–88.

Esther Fischer-Homberger. Geschichte der Medizin. 1975. In J. Hist. Med. 32 (1977): 223–24.

L. R. Lind. Studies in Pre-Vesalian Anatomy. 1975. In Amer. Hist. Rev. (April 1977): 383.

Paul U. Unschuld. Die Praxis des Traditionellen Chinesischen Heilsystems. 1973. In J. Hist. Med. 32 (1977): 220–21.

Erna Lesky. Wien und die Weltmedizin. 1974. In Bull. Hist. Med. 51 (1977): 161–62.

James B. Cowie and Julian Roebuck. An Ethnography of a Chiropractic Clinic. 1975. In J. Hist. Med. 32 (1977): 94–95.

Paul Ghalioungui. Magic and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt. 1973. In Isis 67 (1976): 304–6.

Peter Schmidt. Zu den Geistigen Wurzeln von Johannes Mueller (1801–1858). 1973. In Clio Medica (1975): 320.

J. R. Quinn, ed. China Medicine As We Saw It. 1974. In Annals of Internal Medicine 82 (1975): 725.

H. H. Eulner et al. Medizingeschichte in Unserer Zeit. 1971. In J. Hist. Med. 30 (1975): 291–92.

Helmut Siefert. Der Hippokratische Eid—Und Wir? 1973. In Clio Medica 10 (1975): 67.

K. W. von Brunn. Geschichte der Chirurgie. 1973. In J. Hist. Med. 30 (1975): 181.

G. A. Lindeboom, ed. Boerhaave and his Time. 1970. In J. Hist. Med. 29 (1974): 432–33.

Marielene Putscher. Geschichte der Medizinischen Abbildung. 1972, and Michler-Benedum. Einführung in die Medizinische Fachsprache. 1972. In J. Hist. Med. 29 (1974): 357–58.

L. Garcia Ballester. Alma y Enfermedad en la Obra de Galeno. 1972. In Isis 66 (1975): 126–27.

John Neubauer. Bifocal Vision. 1971. In Bull. Hist. Med. 48 (1974): 598–99.

Victor and Ruth Sidel. Serve the People: Observations on Medicine in the People’s Republic of China. 1973. In Annals of Internal Medicine 81 (1974): 279–80.

E. Lesky and A. Wandruszka. Gerard van Swieten und seine Zeit. 1973. In J. Hist. Med. 29 (1974): 361–62.

K. K. Jain. The Amazing Story of Health Care in New China. 1973. In Annals of Internal Medicine 80 (1974): 285–86.

Owsei Temkin. Galenism. 1973. In J.A.M.A. 228 (1974): 103.

Dieter Jetter. Zur Typologie des Irrenhauses in Frankreich und Deutschland (1780–1840). 1971. In Isis 64 (1973): 256–57.

A. P. Leca. La Médecine Egyptienne au Temps des Pharaohs. 1971. In J. Hist. Med. 28 (1973): 417–18.

J. López Piñero and L. Garcia Ballester. Introducción a la Medicina. 1971, and L. Granjel. Historia de la Medicina. 1969. In J. Hist. Med. 28 (1973): 420–21.

J. E. Harris and K. R. Weeks. X-Raying the Pharaohs. 1973. In J.A.M.A. (1973): 1300.

Luis S. Granjel. Cuadernos de Historia de la Medicina Española. 1969, 1970, 1971. In J. Hist. Med. 28 (1973): 309–10.

Martin Kaufman. Homeopathy in America. 1971. In Amer. J. Pharm. Ed. 37 (1973): 205–6.

Erwin H. Ackerknecht. Therapie von den Primitiven bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. 1970. In Bull. Hist. Med. 46 (1972): 602–3.

Luis S. Granjel. Humanismo y Medicina. 1968, and Capitulos de la Medicina Espanola. 1971. In J. Hist. Med. 27 (1972): 461–62.

Andrew T. Still. Autobiography. 1972 reprint. In J. Hist. Med. 27 (1972): 469–70.

Carlos J. Finlay. Obras Completas. 1965–67. In J. Hist. Med. 27 (1972): 235–36.

Karl E. Rothschuh. Physiologie im Werden. 1969. In J. Hist. Med. 27 (1972): 113–14.

Heinrich Schipperges. Utopien der Medizin. 1968. In J. Hist. Med. 27 (1972): 99–100.

Hermann Grensemann. Die hippokratische Schrift über die heilige Krankheit. 1968. In J. Hist. Med. 26 (1971): 466–67.

R. K. French. Robert Whytt, The Soul, and Medicine. 1969. In J. Hist. Med. 26 (1971): 461–62.

Hahnemann’s Krankenjournal No. 4., 1968. In Bull. Hist. Med. 44 (1970): 285–86.