Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books on history of medicine

Below is a list of notable books on history of medicine that may not be covered in Wikipedia. The notability of the book has been defined primarily by whether it is used as a reference by one or more publications on the subject. Some of the books have existing articles about them but may need to be redirected. Please see the guidelines at the project page.

Progress:

• December 2005: 264 articles
• August 2008: 247 articles
• March 2018: 229 articles

Source of list

The list was mainly compiled from though does not necessarily include all items from the following lists -

• Bibliography of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine ISBN 0521002524
• Bibliography of The Cambridge World History of Human Disease ISBN 0521332869
• Bibliography of Hysteria Beyond Freud ISBN 0520080645
• Bibliography of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers ISBN 0393324826

List

1. Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, 1842, [1] by M.W. Flinn, published by Edwin Chadwick
2. Cannibalism in China by Key Ray Chong
3. Children of Lazarus: The story of the lazaretto at Tracadie by M. J Losier
4. A Compleat History of Druggs (please note this isn't spelling error) by Pierre Pomet. London, 1737.
5. History of Medicine (L.Hartley) (History Project Series) by L. Hartley
6. Drugs in America: A Documentary History by David F., M.D. Musto
7. The Lobotomist (Jack El-Hai): A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai
8. A History of Medicine (Sigerist) by Henry E. Sigerist
9. Consumption in New England: Locality One of Its Chief Cause and Is Consumption Contagious or Communicated by One Person to Another in Any Manner by Henry I. Bowditch
10. Diseases in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diseases, Injuries, and Surgery of Early Populations by Don Brothwell
11. Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 (Penguin History) by Richard J. Evans
12. Science in Egyptology by A. R. David
13. Eye Disease in the Tropics: A Practice Textbook for Developing Countries (Medicine in the tropics) by F. C. Rodger
14. The Black Death in the Middle East by Michael W. Dols
15. Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death by Millard Meiss
16. Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss
17. Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora : Diet, Disease and Racism by Kenneth F. Kiple
18. Alcohol and Man: The Effects of Alcohol on Man in Health and Disease (Addiction in America) by Haven Emerson
19. Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich
20. Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
21. The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System by Charles E. Rosenberg
22. Encyclopedia of Medical History by Roderick McGrew
23. Medical Practice in Modern England: The Impact of Specialization and State Medicine by Rosemary Stevens
24. From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era by Edward Shorter
25. The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis? by Thomas McKeown
26. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System. (Classics in psychology) by Charles Scott, Sir Sherrington
27. Reports of Medical Cases (Library of the Medical Classics) by Richard Bright
28. Closing the Asylum by Peter Barham
29. The Origins of Human Disease by Thomas McKeown
30. Natural History of Infectious Disease by Macfarlane Burnet
31. Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias) by W. F. Bynum
32. Growth of Scientific Physiology (History, philosophy, and sociology of science) by G. J. Goodfield
33. The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancients Greek Science (Sather Classical Lectures Vol 52 by G. E. Lloyd
34. Growth of Medical Thought by L.S. King
35. Civilization and Disease by Henry E. Sigerist
36. The Rise of Surgery: From Empire Craft to Scientific Discipline by Owen H. Wangensteen
37. Observations on Maniacal Disorder (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by William Pargeter
38. The Hospital in History (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) by Lindsay Granshaw
39. American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: From Sects to Science by William G. Rothstein
40. Bedside Manners: The Troubled History of Doctors and Patients by Edward Shorter
41. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society, 1820-1930 by Terry M. Parssinen
42. Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Roy Porter
43. Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London by M. Jeanne Peterson
44. Medical Theory, Surgical Practice: Studies in the History of Surgery (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) by Christopher Lawrence
45. History of General Physiology by Thomas S. Hall
46. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
47. The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the origins of agriculture by Mark Nathan Cohen
48. The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC-1800 AD by Lawrence I. Conrad
49. The Philosophy of Medicine: Framing the Field (Philosophy and Medicine) by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
50. The Pillar of Fire (autobiography) by Karl Stern [2]
51. Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Guenter B. Risse
52. Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History by Donald R. Hopkins
53. Before the Horror: The Population of Hawaii on the Eve of Western Contact by David E. Stannard
54. The Unmasking of Medicine by Ian Kennedy
55. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science) by W. F. Bynum
56. The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present (Master Work Series) by Franz G., MD Alexander
57. Illustrated History of Medicine by Jean-Charles Sournia
58. The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Barbara Duden
59. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness by Sander L. Gilman
60. Health and Illness: Images of Difference (Reaktion Books - Picturing History) by Sander Gilman L.
61. Age of Miracles by John Brunner
62. State Intervention in Medical Care: Consequences for Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States, 1890-1970 by J. Rogers Hollingsworth
63. Circulation of the Blood by William Harvey
64. Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man: A history of the hostilities since 1880 by Gordon A Harrison
65. Information Sources in the History of Science and Medicine (Studies in Physical Geography,) by P. Corsi
66. Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (2 Volume Set) by W. F. Bynum
67. In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century by Rosemary Stevens
68. The Faber Book of Madness by Roy Porter
69. History of Physiology by Karl E. Rothschuh
70. The Oxford Companion to Medicine by John, Sir Walton
71. American Medicine and the Public Interest by Rosemary Stevens
72. Modern Methods in the History of Medicine by Edwin Clarke
73. The Modern Rise of Population by Thomas McKeown
74. Crime or Disease by A. A Flew
75. Companion to the History of Modern Science (Routledge Companion Encyclopaedias) by R. C. Olby
76. History of Public Health by George Rosen
77. Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS by Sander L. Gilman
78. The Body and Surgery in the Middle Ages by Marie-Christine Pouchelle
79. A Social History of Madness by Roy Porter
80. Women Under the Knife:A History Of surgery by Ann Dally
81. A Mad People's History of Madness (Contemporary community health series) by Dale Peterson
82. Doctors in Science and Society: Essays of a Clinical Scientists by Christopher C. Booth
83. Medieval Medical Miniatures by Peter Murray Jones
84. Most Solitary of Afflictions : Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900 by Andrew Scull
85. Medicine and the Reign of Technology by Stanley Joel Reiser
86. The Horse and Buggy Doctor by Arthur Emanuel Hertzler
87. A Political Economy of Medicine: Great Britain and the United States by Roger Hollingsworth
88. The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss
89. Health and Disease: A Reader (Health and Disease) by Basiro Davey
90. A History of Medicine by Lois N. Magner
91. Century of Surgery: 1880-1980 by Mark M. Ravitch
92. Introduction to the History of Medicine by F Garrison
93. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data by Fielding H. Garrison
94. William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World by W. F. Bynum
95. Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) by Roy Porter
96. Psychology of Sex: A Manual for Students by Havelock Ellis
97. The Medical Skills of Ancient Egypt by J. Worth Estes
98. Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions by Martin E. Marty
99. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved by Richard Harrison Shryock
100. Concepts of Health and Disease: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Engelhardt Caplan
101. Medical Power and Social Knowledge by Bryan Turner
102. The Languages of Psyche: Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought : Clark Library Lectures, 1985-1986 (Publications from the Clark Library Professorship, Ucla, 12) by G. S. Rousseau
103. Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century by Jan E. Goldstein
104. The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancients Greek Science (Sather Classical Lectures Vol 52 by G. E. Lloyd
105. In Dora's Case by Charles Bernheimer
106. In Sickness and in Health (Roy Porter): The British Experience, 1650-1850 by Roy Porter
107. Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece by G. E. R. Lloyd
108. The Anatomy of Madness: The Asylum and Its Psychiatry by Roy Porter
109. Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychology by W. F. Bynum
110. Perspectives on Hysteria (Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary Medicine and Public Health) by Phillip R. Slavney
111. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945 by Marina Benjamin
112. Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria by William J. McGrath
113. Patient's Progress: Sickness, Health and Medical Care in England, 1650-1850 (Medicine and Society Ser. : Vol.4) by Dorothy Porter
114. The Body and Society by Peter Brown
115. On the Normal and the Pathological (Studies in the History of Modern Science) by Georges Canguilhem
116. The Invention of the Self: The Hinge of Consciousness in the Eighteenth Century by John O. Lyons
117. Magic, Reason and Experience : Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science by G. E. R. Lloyd
118. The Seductions of Psychoanalysis : Freud, Lacan and Derrida (Cambridge Studies in French) by John Forrester
119. Major Symptoms of Hysteria by Pierre Janet
120. The Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century by Lester S. King
121. The Mind Has No Sex? : Women in the Origins of Modern Science by Londa Schiebinger
122. Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language by Peter Burke
123. Seeing the Insane by Sander L. Gilman
124. Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS by Sander L. Gilman
125. Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by Michael MacDonald
126. Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism by Hayden White
127. Education of the Senses: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
128. Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Paperbacks) by John Mullan
129. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Culture (Oxford Paperbacks) by Bram Dijkstra
130. From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era by Edward Shorter
131. The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition by Gregorio Kohon
132. Science, Folklore, and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences of Ancient Greece by G. E. R. Lloyd
133. Observations on Maniacal Disorder (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by William Pargeter
134. Fits and Starts (Martha Noel Evans): A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern France by Martha Noel Evans
135. The Mind-Body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction (Focus Series (Westview Press).) by D. M. Armstrong
136. Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages by Danielle Jacquart
137. Psychoanalysis and Women: Contemporary Reappraisals by Judith L. Alpert
138. Melancholia and Depression : From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times by Stanley Jackson
139. Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London by M. Jeanne Peterson
140. Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries (Middle Ages Series) by Mary Frances Wack
141. Letters of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud
142. Face of Madness: Hugh W. Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography by Sander L. Gilman
143. Birth of Neurosis: Myth, Malady, and the Victorians by George Drinka
144. Reason and Experience: The Representation of Natural Order by L. Larson
145. Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in French) by Dalia Judovitz
146. Prostitution and prejudice: The Jewish fight against white slavery, 1870-1939 by Edward J Bristow
147. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by J. M. Charcot
148. Genuine Works of Hippocrates by Francis Adams
149. Masters of Madness: Social Origins of the American Psychiatric Profession by Constance M. McGovern
150. Sexual Relations of Mankind by Paolo Mantegazza
151. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory by Nancy Chodorow
152. The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays by Herophilus
153. The Culture of Pain by David B. Morris
154. Eroticism and the Body Politic (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Lynn Hunt
155. Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century : Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century by David Armstrong
156. Science and Society in Restoration England by Michael Hunter
157. Expectations of Life: A Study in the Demography, Statistics, and History of World Mortality by H.O. Lancaster
158. Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin De Siecle (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Ruth Harris
159. Fat and Blood: And How to Make Them by S. Weir Mitchell
160. Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament by Hugh Farmer
161. Madness, Morality and Medicine : A Study of the York Retreat, 1796-1914 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Anne Digby
162. Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature and Sensibility by George S. Rousseau
163. Women and Madness: The Incarceration of Women in Nineteenth-century France (Feminist perspectives) by Yannick Ripa
164. The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett
165. Literature and Science (Stuart Peterfreund): Theory and Practice by Stuart Peterfreund
166. Introduction to the History of Medicine by F Garrison
167. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin
168. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine by A. J. Youngson
169. Melancholy and Society by Jeremy Gaines
170. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, De Praestigiis Daemonum (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) by Johann Weyer
171. Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen
172. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault
173. The Construction of Homosexuality by David F. Greenberg
174. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c. 1848-1918 (Ideas in Context) by Daniel Pick
175. Scholars of Byzantium by N. G. Wilson
176. The Warfare of Science (Notable American Authors) by Andrew Dickson White
177. The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance;: A study in intellectual patterns by Wayne Shumaker
178. Reflections on Gender and Science: Tenth Anniversary Paperback Edition by Evelyn Fox Keller
179. Galen on the Affected Parts: Translation from the Greek Text With Explanatory Footnotes by R. E. Siegel
180. Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose by David Loewenstein
181. Capacity for Emotional Growth by Elizabeth R. Zetzel
182. The Woman Lit By Fireflies by Jim Harrison
183. New Perspectives on Historical Writing by Peter Burke
184. Freud in Germany: Revolution and Reaction in Science, 1893-1907 (Monograph 41 , Vol 11 No 1) by Hannah S. Decker
185. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England by Keith Thomas
186. Poisons of the Past : Molds, Epidemics, and History by Mary Kilbourne Matossian
187. A Treatise on Lovesickness (Iroquois & Their Neighbors (Hardcover)) by Jacques Ferrand
188. Mass Psychogenic Illness (Michael J. Colligan): A Social Psychological Analysis (Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Hardcover)) by Michael J. Colligan
189. Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Elizabeth Abel
190. All That Summer She Was Mad: Virginia Woolf, Female Victim of Male Medicine by Stephen Trombley
191. Science and Speculation by Barnes
192. Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain by Anne Harrington
193. Madmen and the Bourgeoisie: A social history of insanity and psychiatry by Klaus Dörner
194. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, 1) by Caroline Walker Bynum
195. Sex and Enlightenment by Goldberg
196. Witch Hunting, Magic, and the New Philosophy: An introduction to debates of the scientific revolution, 1450-1750 (Harvester studies in philosophy) by Brian Easlea
197. Illustrations of Madness (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry) by John Haslam
198. Erotica and the Enlightenment (Britannia, Vol 2) by Peter Wagner
199. Renaissance Fictions of Anatomy by Devon L. Hodges
200. On Psychological Language: And the Physiomorphic Basis of Human Nature (International Library of Psychology) by Graham Richards
201. Treatise of Melancholie: Containing the Causes Thereof by Timothy Bright
202. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness by Sander L. Gilman
203. Humanism and History: Origins of Modern English Historiography by Joseph M. Levine
204. Edge of Objectivity by Charles Coulston Gillispie
205. The Social Construction of Lesbianism (Inquiries in Social Construction series) by Celia Kitzinger
206. Damning the Innocent by Pierre Darmon
207. Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church by Vern Bullough
208. Medicine In The Enlightenment.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 29) (Clio Medica, 29) by Roy Porter
209. Sanity And Insanity by Charles Mercier
210. The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem
211. Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones
212. The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century by A Wear
213. A History of Psychiatry : From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter
214. Galen's Method of Healing: Proceedings of the 1982 Galen Symposium (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Vol 1) by Richard J. Durling
215. The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the social construction of medicine
216. Women and Mental Health by Elizabeth Howell
217. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Ornella Moscucci
218. The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate by R. B. Onians
219. Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honour of A. Grünbaum (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by R.S. Cohen
220. The God of Ecstasy: Sex Roles and the Madness of Dionysus by Arthur Evans
221. Wear and Tear: Or, Hints for the Overworked (Mental Illness and Social Policy: The American Experience) by S. Weir Mitchell
222. Magic and the millennium;: A sociological study of religious movements of protest among tribal and third-world peoples by Bryan R Wilson
223. The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century (History of Medicine) by Andrew Cunningham
224. The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives by Susan Rubin Suleiman
225. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Vintage) by Elaine Pagels
226. Inscribing the Other (Texts in Context) by Sander L. Gilman
227. Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850 by Roy Porter