Switzerland

1970 CE

#2068.12

The story of ergot.

Exhaustive and well-documented, but no index.

1975 CE

#1671.8

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.

1978 CE

#8162

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).

1978 CE

#12121

International public health between the two world wars: The organizational problems.

1980 CE

#5434.2

The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a s…

1981 CE

#8282

Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine.

1981 CE

#12120

The Pan-American Health Organization: Origins and Evolution.

1982 CE

#6510.4

Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.

1983 CE

#5768.6

Plastic surgery past and present. Origin and history of modern lines of incision.

Well-documented history of current plastic operations using both recent surgical photographs and illustrations from classics in the historical literature. Includes brief biographies of the most important pioneers.

1988 CE

#2581.13

Portraits of viruses: A history of virology.

Well-documented essays on specific families of viruses by expert researchers, reprinted from Intervirology, 1979, 11-1986, 26.

1988 CE

#7549

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.

1989 CE

#12607

Periodontology, from its origins up to 1980: A survey.

1996 CE

#9235

The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.

"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…

1997 CE

#11050

Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.

1999 CE

#7640

Das Anatomische Museum Basel: Museumsführer.

1999 CE

#8722

The surgeon's stage: A history of the operating room.

Perhaps the only book on this special subject; numerous illustrations, mostly in color.

2004 CE

#12691

Bibliographia Halleriana. Verzeichnis der Schriften von und über Albrecht von Haller. Hrsg. von Hubert Steinke und Claudia Profos, unter Mitarbeit von Pia Burkhalter.

2005 CE

#12556

The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.

Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…

2005 CE

#10270

Theophrast und Galen – Celsus und Paracelsus. Medizin, Naturphilosophie und Kirchenreform im Basler Buchdruck bis zum Dreissigjährigen Krieg. Publikationen der Universitätsbibliothek, Nr. 36. 4 vols. plus index vol.

"The project began as a exhibition in the Basle University Library to commemorate the major anniversaries of the birth and death of Paracelsus (1493–1541). Not only did he work and teach in Basle, but many of hi…

2007 CE

#8163

De Yalta à Dien Bien Phu: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1945-1955. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 3:)

2007 CE

#8896

Litterature et medécine: Approaches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Alexandre Wenger.

2009 CE

#8164

De Budapest à Saigon: Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, 1956-1965. (Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Vol.4.)

2010 CE

#7248

Early Medicine, from the body to the stars.

Extensively annotated, magnificently printed catalogue (590pp. in 4to) entirely illustrated in color, of an exhibition of 250 early medical manuscripts, printed books, and related objects from the ancient world to the…

2010 CE

#11418

Evaluating and standardizing therapeutic agents, 1890-1950. Edited by C. Gradmann and J. Simon.

2012 CE

#14331

The vitamin A story: Lifting the shadow of death.

(Thanks to Malcolm Kottler for this reference.)

2014 CE

#13213

Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.

2014 CE

#8397

History of allergy. Edited by K. C. Bergmann and J. Ring. (Chemical Immunology and Allergy Vol. 100.)

Allergy through 20 centuries; most common allergic diseases: historical reflections; mechanisms of allergy: important discoveries; detection and environmental influences and allergens; progress in allergy management; …

2014 CE

#8897

Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe, de la révolution à nos jours. 3 vols. Edited by Lisa Dumusay-Queffélec and Hélène Spengler.

2014 CE

#12043

Viruses and man: A history of interactions.

2015 CE

#10119

An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.

1077 pages.

2015 CE

#10147

Pioneers in plastic surgery.

2016 CE

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

2016 CE

#8062

WHO Historical collection.

Background Disease classifications and nomenclature documents History of international health organizations documents League of Nations malaria documents Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology

2016 CE

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.

2018 CE

#10262

Animals and the shaping of modern medicine: One health and its histories.

A pioneering effort to draw the connections between the development of veterinary medicine and the development of medicine in general. With an extensive annotated bibliography.

2018 CE

#10121

Digital health: Scaling healthcare to the world. Edited by Homero Rivas and Katarzyna Wac.

Probably the first book published on "digital health." "This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It p…

2018 CE

#12614

The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.

2019 CE

#11039

Medical practice in twelfth-century China. A translation of Xu Shuwei's Ninety discussion [cases] on cold damage disorders by Asaf Goldschmidt.

"An annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) – which was the first such c…

2019 CE

#11389

Trepanation, trephining and craniotomy: History and stories.

c. 1474 CE

#5113

De epidemia et peste.

One of the earliest works written on public health, and one of the earliest printed medical books. It was first printed in Arnaldus de Villanova’s De arte cognoscendi venena (Padua, 1473; Mantua, 1473). Above is…