A Bibliography of the Writings of Henry E. Sigerist

He was in the midst of writing an eloge of Arturo Castiglioni which he had delivered a few weeks before in Rome at the Fourteenth International Congress of the History of Medicine. [...] Staff members of the Johns Hop- kins Institute of the History of Medicine and of the Department of the History of Medicine, Yale Medical School were most cooperative, and the McGill University Press provided useful editorial advice. [...] He dreamed of the "Asclepios politicos" and urged that the physicians should "keep pace with society." Sigerist always saw in medical history the bridge between the old humanities and the new science. [...] Much of his sociology was and remained medical history, and is per- haps more precisely defined as "social history of medicine." In Leipzig, the city of Lamprecht, he had written medical history as part of the total history of a period, as Kulturgeschichte of medicine. [...] The first volume begins with a programmatic introduction concerning the problems and methods of medical history: "Medical history will study health and disease through the ages, the conditions for health and disease, and the history of all human activities that tended to promote health, to prevent illness, and to restore the sick, no matter who the acting indivi- duals were." An excellent thirty-p