Gert H Brieger

Biographic Data

ID1008243
NAMEGert H Brieger
GIVEN NAMESGert H
FAMILY NAMEBrieger
SIGNATUREBRIEGER G H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, San Francisco
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR44
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX2

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2011

    Reviewed by: Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters Gert H. Brieger Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, eds. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2009. xiv + 274 pp. Ill. $35.00 (cloth, 978-0-88135-379-2), $18.95 (paperbound, 978-0-88135-381-5). This is an inspired book, especially its first half. It caps a decade of work that restores the elder Oliver Wendell H…

  • Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients, Atlanta to Opelika (review)

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2008

    Reviewed by: Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients, Atlanta to Opelika Gert H. Brieger Jack D. Welsh . Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients, Atlanta to Opelika. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005. viii + 183 pp. Maps, tables. Appendix on CD-ROM. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-86554-971-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-86554-971-5). The medical history of the American Civil War has, in the last few years, become popular again. Statistics of the norther…

  • Affirmative Action in Medicine

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2007

    Reviewed by: Affirmative Action in Medicine: Improving Health Care for Everyone Brieger Brieger James L. Curtis . Affirmative Action in Medicine: Improving Health Care for Everyone. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. xviii + 237 pp. Tables. $40.00 (0-472-11298-8). It is hard to think of a more contentious social and political issue of the late decades of the twentieth century than affirmative action, whose history in the United States…

  • Bleeding Blue and Gray

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2007

    Reviewed by: Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Gert H. Brieger Ira M. Rutkow . Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine. New York: Random House, 2005. xviii + 394 pp. Ill. $U.S. 27.95, $Can. 39.95 (0-375-50315-3). The medical history of the Civil War has been relatively sparse. Historians of this event have often focused on the organization of the military, the great ba…

  • Book Notes

    Randall M Packard, Mary Elizabeth Fissell et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2007

    Book Notes Patrick Dandrey. Anthologie de l'humeur noire: Écrits sur la mélancolie d'Hippocrate à l'Encyclopédie. Paris: Gallimard–Promeneur, 2005. 791 pp. E39.99 (paperbound, 2-07-077547-X). This collection of translated and annotated primary sources is divided chronologically, with an introduction preceding each section. "L'antiquité classique" encompasses works by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Celsus, Rufus of Ephesus, and Galen, amo…

  • Book Notes

    Randall M Packard, Gert H Brieger et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

  • Physician Heal Thyself

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Reviewed by: Physician Heal Thyself: Medical Practitioners of Eighteenth-Century New York Gert H. Brieger Marynita Anderson . Physician Heal Thyself: Medical Practitioners of Eighteenth-Century New York. American University Studies, series 9 (History), vol. 170. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. x + 267 pp. Ill. $63.95 (0-8204-2580-X). Early New York medicine has long been of interest—partly, no doubt, because there were many notable practitioners, and…

  • Book Notes

    Randall M Packard, Jerome J Bylebyl et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    William S. Haubrich. Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 2003. xii + 267 pp. $33.00 (1-930513-49-6). "A Word of Caution," begins the introduction: "Although . . . comment is offered on the past and present usage of biomedical terms, emphasis is given to the provenance or origin of these terms rather than their precise definitions" (p. ix). The book is inclusive: one entry begins "abh…

  • Book Notes

    Randall M Packard, Jerome J Bylebyl et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

  • Book Notes

    Randall M Packard, Gert H Brieger et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Helaine Selin, ed. Medicine across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol. 3. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2003. xxiv + 416 pp. Ill. $163.00; €170.00; £109.00 (1-4020-1166-0)

  • Book Notes

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Considering the importance of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) to the history of nineteenth-century medical science and social medicine, it is surprising that there has not been a Virchow "industry." Erwin Ackerknecht's standard biography, though still informative reading, is now half a century old. For those who teach the history of medicine and for anyone with an interest in Virchow's rich career, we are indebted to Professor McNeely of the Universit…

  • Out of the Dead House

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Reviewed by: Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine Gert H. Brieger Susan Wells . Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xii + 306 pp. Ill. $57.95 (cloth: 0-299-17170-1), $22.95 (paperbound: 0-299-17174-4). Susan Wells, a professor of rhetoric, relates two important themes in this provocative book: medical…

  • Book Notes

    Randall M Packard, Jerome J Bylebyl et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    David L. Cowen. Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Variorum, 2001. ix + 296 pp. Ill. $105.95 (0-86078-842-3). "Medical discoveries, medical theories, and medical systems most certainly have their place in medical history," writes David Cowen in the preface to this collection, "but these studies make it evident that the materia medica and pharmacother…

  • Bodies and Borders

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEPerspectives in biology and…2004Cited by: 7References: 6

    Both medicine and the history of medicine have seen many changes in the last four decades. The way we tell the story of medical developments no longer concentrates on the important doctors and their ideas. The influences of social history in the 1960s and 1970s and cultural history in the 1980s and 1990s have broadened and enriched the interpretations of our medical past. The social historians have helped us to include politics, economics, and th…

  • Temkin's Times and Ours

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    A travers ce commentaire biographique elogieux, l'auteur rend hommage a Owsei Temkin, specialiste en histoire de la medecine, qui emigra aux Etats-Unis au debut des annees 30 pour devenir un chercheur reconnu et respecte

  • American Medicine and the Public Interest (review)

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 1, Spring 2000

  • No Other Gods

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 1, Spring 2000

  • The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine . Roy Porter

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEIsis1997

  • Framing Disease

    Gert H Brieger, Charles E Rosenberg et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South by John H. Ellis

    Gert H BriegerARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

    928 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE explained in terms of masterminding construction work on dams and drainage. Plague in India, epidemics and syphilis in eastern and southern Africa, the depopulation of Hawaii as a model for depopulation in colonial America, and AIDS in the United Kingdom are among the diverse topics addressed in this volume. The papers were presented to a conference in 1989, and, with the benefit of expert criticism, most h…

  • Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South

    Gert H Brieger, John H EllisARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

  • A Model of Its Kind. Vol. I

    Susan E Lederer, A Mcgehee Harvey et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    A Model of Its Kind. Vol. I: A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. and A Model of lts Kind. Vol. II: A Pictorial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Get access Susan E. Lederer Susan E. Lederer College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 693–694, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079…

  • A Model of Its Kind. Vol. 1, A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins

    William G Rothstein, A Mcgehee Harvey et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1990

  • Women Doctors in Gilded-Age Washington

    Gert H Brieger, Gloria MoldowARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1988Cited by: 3

  • The Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875-1944 . George Rosen, Charles E. Rosenberg

    Gert H BriegerARTICLEIsis1985