Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins Distinguished Service Professor

Co-Editor, Bulletin of the History of Medicine:
History of 19th and 20th century medicine; history of surgery; history of medical education.

Institute of the History of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University
1900 E. Monument Street
Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone: 410-955-4877
Email: gbrieger@earthlink.net

Recent Publications:

(with A. McGehee Harvey, Susan L. Abrams, Jonathan M. Fishbein, and Victor A. McKusick) A Model of its Kind. A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins 2 vols (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

"The Plight of Premedical Education: Myths and Misperceptions, Part I: The 'Premedical Syndrome,'" Academic Medicine, 74, No. 8, (August 1999), 901-904.

"The Plight of Premedical Education: Myths and Misperceptions, Part II: Science 'Versus' the Liberal Arts," Academic Medicine, 74, (November 1999), 1217-1221.

"A Brief History of the Johns Hopkins Medical Curriculum," in Catherine D. DeAngelis, ed., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1999), pp. 1-20.

"The Historiography of Medicine in America," Medicina nei Secoli, (1998), 189-207.

BOOK REVIEW: Dorothy Porter, Health, Civilization and the State for Reviews in History, June 1999 (http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/review).

"A Brief History of Operative Gynecology," in TeLinde's Operative Gynecology, ed. John A. Rock and John D. Thompson (J.P. Lippincott, 1997), pp. 3-16.

"Why the University-based Medical School Survives: A Historical Perspective," Academic Medicine 72 (May 1997), 44-51.

"The Development of Surgery: Historical Aspects Important in the Origin and Development of Modern Surgical Science," in D. C. Sabiston, ed., Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice, 15th edition, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1997, pp. 1-15.

"Medicine as a Profession," Encyclopedia of Bioethics (1995), 1688-97.

"The Historiography of Medicine," Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine, ed. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (Routledge, 1993), pp. 24-44.

"Getting into Medical School in the Good Old Days: Good for Whom?", Annals of Internal Medicine 119 (December 1993), 1138-45.

"Sense and Sensibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Surgery in America," Medicine and the Five Senses, W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 225-43.

"From Conservative to Radical Surgery in Late 19th-century America," in Christopher Lawrence, ed. Medical Theory, Surgical Practice: Studies in the History of Surgery, (Routledge, 1992).

"Classics and Character: Medicine and Gentility," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 65 (1991) 88-109.