Guenter B Risse

Biographic Data

ID212814
NAMEGuenter B Risse
GIVEN NAMESGuenter B
FAMILY NAMERisse
SIGNATURERISSE G B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, San Francisco
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • U rmi E ngineer W illoughby . Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

    Open AccessGuenter B RisseARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    Long an interest of medical historians, the history of disease has recently been placed into more complex biological and social contexts. However, our growing specialization frequently inhibits and even denigrates the composition of broader, multidisciplinary narratives. Historicists insist that disease is merely a social construction, even questioning the scientific identification of particular diseases. Yet humans remain inextricably linked and…

  • Bringing DNA into the Neighborhood” in San Francisco: A Personal Recollection

    Open AccessGuenter B RisseARTICLEJournal of Urban History2016Cited by: 2

    Based primarily on personal experiences, this article aims to illustrate the troublesome relationship between the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and its adjoining neighborhoods from the 1960s to the present. Like other University of California campuses, UCSF was not required to conform to local land uses and zoning laws. Only its periodic and mandatory Long Range Development Plans provided clues about future research initiatives …

  • Conflict or Collaboration: Academic Medical Centers and Their Communities, A Commentary

    Open AccessGuenter B RisseARTICLEJournal of Urban History2016

  • Translating Western Modernity: The First Chinese Hospital in America

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2011

    Since hospitals are often at the center of health care services, their foundation and evolution provides valuable insights into local political, economic, and cultural contexts. Based on Western and Chinese sources, this essay employs a transnational approach to explain the establishment of the Tung Wah or Oriental Dispensary in San Francisco. This article describes the institution's aims, financing, and combined operation of Western and Chinese …

  • Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834-1835 (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    Reviewed by: Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835 Guenter B. Risse Diana E. Manuel , ed. Walking the Paris Hospitals: Diary of an Edinburgh Medical Student, 1834–1835. Medical History, suppl. no. 23. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2004. xii + 211 pp. Ill. $50.00, £32.00 (0-85484-074-5). Writing one's day-to-day experiences has become a popular literary genre, displaying t…

  • Book Notes

    Randall M Packard, Mary Elizabeth Fissell et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    Book Notes E. E. Cockayne and N. J. Stow, eds. Stutter's Casebook: A Junior Hospital Doctor, 1839–1841. Suffolk Records Society, vol. 48. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2005. xliii + 178 pp. Ill. $60.00 (1-84383-113-9). The casebook kept by W. G. Stutter spans the years when he worked as house apothecary and house surgeon at the Suffolk General Hospital in Bury St. Edmunds, England. In addition to annotating the casebook, the editors have also …

  • Glimpses of a Hidden Burden: Hydatid Disease in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Hydatids" or watery cysts have been observed in animals and humans since ancient times, giving rise to frequent speculation as to their nature and origin. This essay focuses on an extremely rare clinical case managed at the Edinburgh Infirmary in 1785 by James Gregory, professor of the theory of medicine. Following the death of the patient, an autopsy disclosed lesions characteristic of a condition eventually labeled "echinococcosis of the liver,…

  • Book Notes

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

  • Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    This informative book illuminates an important chapter in the history of American culture. As the author explains, a society on the path to modernity engages in a process of standardization and the setting of norms that guide its governance and policies—including the adjudication of what constitutes true citizenship. To illuminate this process, Nayan Shah analyzes in great detail the construction of racism toward the Chinese in San Francisco from…

  • Die Eroberung der Gesundheit, 1750-1900: Aus dem Französischen von Andrea van Dülmen (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    For general readers interested in health issues, this historical overview may be of interest. It was originally written in French, and the current German translation in a series on European history reflects the growing importance of the subject in social historiography. The dense prose covers a span of 150 years, from mid-eighteenth-century Enlightenment to 1900, describing the "conquest" of health within the contexts of a dramatic demographic ex…

  • The Clinical Consultations of Francesco Torti (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2001

    Saul Jarcho's contributions to our understanding of clinical medicine in eighteenth-century Italy are well known. During the past decades he has uncovered and then meticulously translated case books, consultation letters, reports, and essays written by some notable physicians, including Lancisi, Albertini, and now Francesco Torti (1658-1741). A graduate of the University of Bologna, Torti returned to his alma mater as professor of medicine and to…

  • City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco. Susan Craddock

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEIsis2001

  • The Architect and the Pavilion Hospital: Dialogue and Design Creativity in England, 1850-1914

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1999

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 1, Spring 1999

  • Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1999

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999

  • Ancient Egyptian Medicine . John F. Nunn

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEIsis1999

  • Medicine in the Enlightenment (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: Medicine in the Enlightenment. Clio Medica, vol. 29 Günter B. Risse Roy Porter, ed. Medicine in the Enlightenment. Clio Medica, vol. 29. Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1995. x + 399 pp. Ill. $36.50; Hfl. 55.00 (paperbound). In spite of a growing focus on the medical achievements of our century, the Enlightenment continues to attract numerous practitioners of our historical craft. Thi…

  • Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEJAMA1997

    Medical history has shifted focus from the accomplishments of great doctors and nurses to a closer examination of the cultural context in which all health-related activities necessarily take place. The view "from below" prominently involves patients and their families as well as less formal healing networks populated by individuals often branded as opportunistic quacks or magicians. This form of cultural history is difficult to research and write…

  • Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500–1950

    Open AccessChristof Mauch, David Lazar et al.BOOKInstitutions of Confinement1997

    A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference held in 1992 by the German Historical Institute that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias. Seventeen contributors from six different countries with ba…

  • A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors. Tony Gould

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEIsis1997

  • El hospital en Hispanoamerica y Filipinas, 1492-1898 (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: El hospital en Hispanoamerica y Filipinas, 1492–1898 Guenter B. Risse Francisco Guerra. El hospital en Hispanoamerica y Filipinas, 1492–1898. Madrid: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1994. 662 pp. Ill. Ptas. 7,500.00. Lest anyone on reading the title expect a major work of synthesis or critical analysis, this book is simply a census of exactly 1,196 hospitals founded by the Spanish between 1492 and the end of the nineteenth century i…

  • Von der semiotischen zur diagnostischen Medizin: Die Entstehung der klinischen Methode zwischen 1750 und 1850 (review)

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: Von der semiotischen zur diagnostischen Medizin: Die Entstehung der klinischen Methode zwischen 1750 und 1850 Guenter B. Risse Volker Hess. Von der semiotischen zur diagnostischen Medizin: Die Entstehung der klinischen Methode zwischen 1750 und 1850. Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, no. 66. Husum, Germany: Matthiesen Verlag, 1993. 346 pp. DM 98.00 (paperbound). Diagnosis is a process whereby all su…

  • Reconstructing Clinical Activities: Patient Records in Medical History

    Guenter B Risse, John Harley WarnerARTICLESocial History of Medicine1992Cited by: 23

    The past decade has witnessed growing interest among historians in the use of patient records as one source of information about the medical experiences and perceptions of the past. Drawing examples from studies that employ what are variously called clinical case histories, clinical charts, and patient notes, this essay draws attention to some of the historiographic possibilities and problems of using patient records. Such documents provide one b…

  • Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler

    Guenter B Risse, Lester S King et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler. By Lester S. King. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. viii + 268 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-4057-0.) Get access Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler. By King Lester S.. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. viii + 268 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-4057-0.) Guenter B. Risse Guenter B. Risse University of…

  • Georg Christian Gottlieb Wedekind, 1761-1831: Werdegang und Schicksal eines Arztes im Zeitalter der Aufklärung und der Französischen Revolution. Mit einem Anhang: Wedekinds Diätetikvorlesung von 1789/…

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEIsis1991

  • Clinical Consultations and Letters by Ippolito Francesco Albertini, Francesco Torti, and Other Physicians: University of Bologna MS 2089-1. Saul Jarcho

    Guenter B RisseARTICLEIsis1991