Guenter B. Risse

Guenter Bernhard Risse was an American medical historian. He wrote numerous books, including "Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence." The American Association for the History of Medicine awarded him the 1988 William H. Welch Medal for his book Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland and its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He was Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco, and later Affiliate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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