| Mending bodies, saving souls: a history of hospitals GB Risse Oxford University Press, 1999 | 854 | 1999 |
| Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland: Care and Teaching at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh GB Risse Cambridge University Press, 1986 | 277 | 1986 |
| Reconstructing clinical activities: patient records in medical history GB Risse, JH Warner Social History of Medicine 5 (2), 183-205, 1992 | 234 | 1992 |
| Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment GB Risse Medicine in society: historical essays, 149-98, 1992 | 129 | 1992 |
| Medicine Without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History eds Risse, Guenter B., Ronald L.Numbers, and Judith Walzer Leavitt Science History Publications, 1977 | 115* | 1977 |
| Epidemics and history: ecological perspectives and social responses GB Risse AIDS: The burdens of history 33, 1988 | 108 | 1988 |
| Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown GB Risse JHU Press, 2012 | 106 | 2012 |
| Medicine without doctors: home health care in American history GB Risse, RL Numbers, JW Leavitt | 94 | 1977 |
| The Brownian system of medicine: its theoretical and practical implications GB Risse Clio Medica 5 (5), 45-51, 1970 | 83 | 1970 |
| Medicine in New Spain GB Risse Medicine in the New World: New Spain, New France, and New England, 12-63, 1987 | 78 | 1987 |
| Kant, Schelling, and the early search for a philosophical ‘science’of medicine in Germany GB Risse Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 27 (2), 145-158, 1972 | 68 | 1972 |
| " a long PULL, a strong pull, and all together": SAN FRANCISCO and BUBONIC plague, 1907-1908 GB Risse Bulletin of the History of Medicine 66 (2), 260-286, 1992 | 64 | 1992 |
| Hysteria at the Edinburgh Infirmary: the construction and treatment of a disease, 1770–1800 GB Risse Medical history 32 (1), 1-22, 1988 | 54 | 1988 |
| Cause of death as a historical problem GB Risse Continuity and change 12 (2), 175-188, 1997 | 46 | 1997 |
| " Doctor William Cullen, Physician, Edinburgh": A Consultation Practice in the Eighteenth Century GB Risse Bulletin of the History of Medicine 48 (3), 338-351, 1974 | 45 | 1974 |
| New medical challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment GB Risse Brill, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Von der semiotischen zur diagnostischen Medizin: Die Entstehung der klinischen Methode zwischen 1750 und 1850 V Hess, GB Risse Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70 (4), 715-716, 1996 | 37 | 1996 |
| Hospital history: new sources and methods GB Risse Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine, 175-204, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Clinical Instruction in Hospitals: The Boerhaavian Tradition in Leyden, Edinburgh, Vienna and Pavia GB Risse Clinical teaching, past and present, 1-19, 1989 | 32 | 1989 |
| Culture, knowledge and healing: Historical perspectives of homeopathic medicine in Europe and North America R Jütte, GB Risse, J Woodward (No Title), 1998 | 31 | 1998 |
