Guenter B. Risse

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Guenter B. Risse is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, University of Buenos Aires, University of California, San Diego, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Washington, University of California, San Francisco

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According to Wikipedia, Guenter B. Risse is an American medical historian. He has written numerous books, including his most recent "Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence." The American Association for the History of Medicine awarded him the 1988 William H. Welch Medal for his book Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland and its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco, and currently Affiliate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Guenter B. Risse's Published Works

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Reconstructing clinical activities: patient records in medical history. (1992) (107)
Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals (1999) (102)
The dread disease: cancer and modern American culture (1989) (96)
The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine (1998) (72)
Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1986) (70)
Born to die: disease and new world conquest, 1492–1650 (2000) (64)
A Social History of Medicine (1978) (57)
Reconstructing history. (2003) (28)
"A long pull, a strong pull, and all together": San Francisco and bubonic plague, 1907-1908. (1992) (27)
Greater Than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950 (1999) (26)
Medicine without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History (1978) (25)
Medicine in Society: Medicine in the age of Enlightenment (1992) (25)
Hysteria at the Edinburgh Infirmary: the construction and treatment of a disease, 1770-1800. (1988) (24)
Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown (2012) (22)
New medical challenges during the Scottish enlightenment. (2005) (21)
Medicine and magnificence: British hospital and asylum architecture, 1660–1815 (2001) (20)
X-Raying the Pharaohs (1973) (18)
The Architect and the Pavilion Hospital: Dialogue and Design Creativity in England, 1850-1914 (1999) (17)
Kant-Schelling, and the early search for a philosophical 'science' of medicine in Germany. (1972) (17)
History of Western Medicine from Hippocrates to Germ Theory (1993) (16)
Culture, Knowledge, and Healing. Historical Perspectives of Homeopathic Medicine in Europe and North America (1998) (15)
The renaissance of bloodletting: a chapter in modern therapeutics. (1979) (14)
Pierre A. Piorry (1794-1879), the French "master of percussion". (1971) (13)
The role of medical history in the education of the "humanist" physician: A reevaluation. (1975) (12)
Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine (1994) (10)
Charity and the London hospitals, 1850–1898 (2002) (9)
Revolt against quarantine: community responses to the 1916 polio epidemic, Oyster Bay, New York. (1992) (8)
Brunonian therapeutics: new wine in old bottles? (1988) (8)
El hospital en Hispanoamerica y Filipinas, 1492-1898 (review) (1996) (8)
Health care in hospitals: the past 1000 years (1999) (8)
William Hunter and the eighteenth-century medical world (1987) (7)
The history of therapeutics. (1991) (7)
Clinical instruction in hospitals: the Boerhaavian tradition in Leyden, Edinburgh, Vienna and Pavia. (1987) (7)
The Medical Mandarins: The French Academy of Medicine in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1996) (7)
Shifting Hospital–Hospice Boundaries (2013) (6)
Ancient Egyptian Medicine. John F. Nunn (1999) (6)
Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847 (review) (2002) (6)
Pharaoh Akhenaton of ancient Egypt: controversies among Egyptologists and physicians regarding his postulated illness. (1971) (6)
"Doctor William Cullen, physician, Edinburgh": a consultation practice in the Eighteenth Century. (1974) (6)
Glimpses of a Hidden Burden: Hydatid Disease in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (2005) (5)
Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West: Essays on Region, History, and Practice Martha Hildreth Bruce T. Moran (1999) (4)
"Typhus" fever in eighteenth-century hospitals: new approaches to medical treatment. (1985) (4)
The Medical Renaissance of the 16th Century (1986) (4)
A letter to Benjamin Rush. (1980) (4)
Britannia rules the seas: the health of seamen, Edinburgh, 1791-1800. (1988) (4)
The quest for certainty in medicine: John Brown's system of medicine in France. (1971) (4)
Before the Clinic Was “Born”: Methodological Perspectives in Hospital History (1997) (3)
Once on Top, Now on Tap: American Physicians View their Relationships with Patients, 1920–1970 (1982) (3)
Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence (2015) (3)
Imhotep and medicine--a reevaluation. (1986) (3)
Historical vignette. Calomel and the American medical sects during the nineteenth century. (1973) (2)
Epidemics and medicine: the influence of disease on medical thought and practice. (1979) (2)
"Philosophical" medicine in nineteenth-century Germany: an episode in the relations between philosophy and medicine. (1976) (2)
“Bringing DNA into the Neighborhood” in San Francisco (2016) (2)
The Royal Protomedicato: The Regulation of the Medical Profession in the Spanish Empire. John Tate Lanning , John Jay TePaske (1986) (2)
Hospital History : New Sources and Methods (2018) (2)
The Pasteurization of France (1989) (1)
Book Review A History of Medicine By Lois N. Magner. 393 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1992. $55. 0-8247-8673-4 (1993) (1)
Mind–Body Enigma: Hysteria and Hypochondriasis at the Edinburgh Infirmary (2005) (1)
Debates and Experiments: The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh (2005) (1)
Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (review) (2003) (1)
Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy (1974) (1)
William Cullen and child care. A 1788 letter. (1973) (1)
Book Review:A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors Tony Gould (1997) (1)
Translating Western Modernity: The First Chinese Hospital in America (2011) (1)
Historicism in medical history. (1969) (1)
Viewpoints in the teaching of medical history. II. Teaching medical history in the 1970's: new challenges and approaches. (1975) (1)
Book Review:City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco Susan Craddock (2001) (1)
Schelling, "Naturphilosophie" and John Brown's system of medicine. (1976) (1)
In the Name of Hygieia and Hippocrates: A Quest for the Preservation of Health and Virtue (2005) (1)
Driven by Fear (2015) (1)
An account of the Wisconsin chair in medical history: a tribute to William S. Middleton. (1976) (1)
Conflict or Collaboration (2016) (0)
Teaching hospitals and the urban poor (book review) (2002) (0)
[Tribute to the Mexican Society of the History and Philosophy of Medicine]. (1982) (0)
Eighteenth-Century Medical Scotland: A Select Bibliography (2005) (0)
Diana L. Ahmad. The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. (2007) (0)
Disease and dread. (1994) (0)
Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834-1835 (review) (2006) (0)
Framing Gynaecology in Edinburgh: The Perplexing Nature of Women’s Bodies (2005) (0)
Hospice Boundaries : Historical Perspectives on the Institutional Care of the Dying − Shifting Hospital (2013) (0)
Richard H. Shryock and the social history of medicine. Introduction. (1974) (0)
The history of health and disease for health professionals: the case study approach. Commentary. (1982) (0)
Turkeys and brunonianism: a brief note. (1979) (0)
Medicine and Slavery. The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia. Todd L. Savitt. (1980) (0)
Book Notes (1982) (0)
In memoriam: John B. de C. M. Saunders (1903-1991). (1992) (0)
Shamanism: the dawn of a healing profession. (1972) (0)
John Henderson, The Renaissance hospital: healing the body and healing the soul, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006, pp. xxxiv, 458, illus., £35.00 (hardback 0-300-10995-4). (2007) (0)
[Electronics in modern medicine]. (1961) (0)
Urmi Engineer Willoughby. Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. (2019) (0)
Medicine in the Enlightenment (review) (1998) (0)
What Columbus's voyages wrought. (1994) (0)
Organising Medical Knowledge and Making Clinical Decisions: Phthisis and Student-Selected Case Histories (2005) (0)
The road to twentieth-century therapeutics: shifting perspectives and approaches. (1997) (0)
Book Review:The House of Life: Magical and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt Paul Ghalioungui (1976) (0)
Medicinle inPespctv Imhspand-icin-AR F}ation (1986) (0)
Hospital Life: Theory and Practice from the Medieval to the Modern ed. by Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard (review) (2015) (0)
Book Notes (1939) (0)
Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind (1981) (0)
Book Notes (1994) (0)
Reflected experience in medicine, science, and technology: the example of hospital history. (2004) (0)
Book Notes (1988) (0)
Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor (review) (2002) (0)
‘Mill Reek’ in Scotland: Construction and Management of Lead Poisoning (2005) (0)
Book Notes (1946) (0)
Patients and Their Healers (1982) (0)
Medicine in America: A Short History (1992) (0)
The Clinical Consultations of Francesco Torti (review) (2001) (0)
Book Review:Clinical Consultations and Letters by Ippolito Francesco Albertini, Francesco Torti, and Other Physicians: University of Bologna MS 2089-1 Saul Jarcho (1991) (0)
Book Review The Mummy's Tale: The Scientific and Medical Investigation of Natsef-Amun, Priest in the Temple at Karnak Edited by A.R. David and E. Tapp. 176 pp., illustrated. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1992. $24.95. 0-312-09061-7 (1993) (0)
Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916-1939 (1987) (0)
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe (review) (1999) (0)
Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies. David ArnoldDisease, Medicine, and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion. Roy MacLeod , Milton Lewis (1990) (0)
Evolution of Sickness and Healing. By Horacio Fabrega, Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xv plus 364 pp. $45.00) (1999) (0)
For God and Country: Duties and Rewards of Charity at the Edinburgh Infirmary (2005) (0)
Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. By Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1989. viii plus 305 pp. $32.50) (1991) (0)
Book Review:Historical Origins of the Concept of Neurosis Jose M. Lopez Pinero, Doris Ines Berrios (1985) (0)
James T. Patterson, The dread disease: cancer and modern American culture . Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp xiii, 380, illus., $25.95 (US), £20.75/$31.25 (Europe). (1989) (0)
ica.A popular tract on farm animals and their diseases, first published in 1770 in Pennsylvania, and the 1815 hospital pharmacopoeia composed by a com- mittee of the New York Hospital complete the volume (2002) (0)
Ague in Eighteenth-Century Scotland?: The Shifting Ecology of a Disease (2005) (0)
Book Review:The Concept of Heart Failure from Avicenna to Albertini Saul Jarcho (1982) (0)
Book Notes (1940) (0)
Annmarie Adams. Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943. (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture Series.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. Pp. xxv, 169. $27.50 (2010) (0)
The Hospital Design In History (2021) (0)
RHEUMATOID HEART DISEASE. A CASE STUDY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. (1964) (0)
Medical Theory and Therapeutic Practice in the Eighteenth Century: A Transatlantic Perspective (review) (2010) (0)
Fissell Mary E.. Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol. (Cambridge History of Medicine Series.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. Pp. xi, 266. $54.50. (1992) (0)
Book Review (2007) (0)
Book reviews (2007) (0)
Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1997) (0)
Literature and medicine. (1992) (0)
Diana E. Manuel, ed. Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834-1835 (2006) (0)

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