Doctors, Nurses, and Medical Practitioners

LOIS N. MAGNER is Professor of History at Purdue University. /e

Biographical essays on 56 remarkable individuals in the medical field are included in this book. Many of these figures are not well known outside of their own country, calling, or specialized field; some are famous, some infamous, but most were dedicated to a more egalitarian system of health care delivery. They are significant because of their ideas, diagnostic or therapeutic methods, writings, the institutions that they founded, and the impetus they imparted to their students. By integrating biographies of doctors, nurses, and practitioners of different time periods and different cultures, this book addresses the kinds of questions currently of interest to scholars and students. Profiles of individuals from different cultures and time periods provide a valuable perspective on changing patterns of health and disease and differences in medical philosophy.Each profile focuses on one person's life and career, and the relationship of that individual's work to the universal quest for health and healing. Each profile's author has provided a bibliography and included, wherever possible, a guide to the archival materials available, works written by and about the individual, and recent scholarship concerning related topics to help readers find further information on subjects that pique their interest.

Biographical essays on 56 remarkable individuals in the medical field.

Introduction by Lois N. MagnerWilliam Beaumont (1785-1853) by Cynthia De Haven PitcockJohn Shaw Billings (1838-1913) by Nancy EckermanEmily Blackwell (1826-1910) by Linda L. GoldsteinErnst P. Boas (1891-1955) by Jane Pacht BrickmanWilliam Boyd (1885-1979) by Ian CarrMiguel Bustamante (1898-1986) by Anne-Emanuelle BirnAllan Butler (1894-1986) by Jane Pacht BrickmanMary Steichen Calderone (1904- ) by Marcia MeldrumMaude E. Callen (1900-1990) by Patricia Evridge HillKate Campbell (1899-1986) by Barry FirkinRobert Davies Defries (1889-1975) by Christopher J. RuttyPaul Henry De Kruif (1890-1971) by William C. SummersRobert Latou Dickinson (1861-1950) by Vern L. BulloughLavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956) by Susan Rimby LeighowErik Homburger Erikson (1902-1994) by Stephen SoreffAlice Caterine Evans (1881-1975) by John L. ParascandolaCarl Emil Fenger (1814-1884) by Signild VallgårdaCarlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) by Juan A. del RegatoThomas Francis, Jr. (1900-1969) by Marcia MeldrumSolomon Carter Fuller (1872-1953) by John PotterJohn Farquhar Fulton (1899-1960) by Thomas P. GariepyJoseph Goldberger (1874-1929) by Alan M. KrautWilliam Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920) by Juan A. del RegatoLeonard Greenburg (1893-1991) by Jacqueline Karnell CornCordelia Agnes Greene (1831-1905) by Linda Lehmann GoldsteinMadhusudan Gupta (1800?-1856) by Ranes C. ChakravortySami Ibrahim Haddad (1890-1957) by Farid S. HaddadWilliam Heberden (1710-1801) by T. J. MurrayJohn Hunter (1728-1793) by T. V. N. PersaudThomas Adeoye Lambo (1923- ) by Jonathan SadowskyManuel Martínez Báez (1894-1987) by Ana Cecilia Rodriguez de RomoSilas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) by Sidney OchsCarlos Montezuma (1865-1923) by Todd BensonNagayo Sensai (1838-1902) by Ann Bowman JannettaRoswell Park (1852-1914) by Andrew A. GageThomas J. Parran, Jr.(1892-1968) by Lynne Page SnyderPhilippe Pinel (1745-1826) by Dora B. WeinerNicholas J. Pisacano (1924-1990) by David P. Adams and Alan L. MooreEunice Rivers (1899-1986) by Susan E. LedererAlbert B. Sabin (1906-1993) by Allen WeisseMahendralal Sarkar (1833-1904) by Asoke K. BagchiHenry Alfred Schroeder (1906-1975) by Eugene D. WeinbergMichael Abraham Shadid (1882-1966) by Farid Sami HaddadHilla Sheriff (1903-1988) by Patricia Evridge HillHenry Ernest Sigerist (1891-1957) by Genevieve MillerJames Marion Sims (1813-1883) by Deborah Kuhn McGregorTheobald Smith (1859-1934) by G. Terry SharrerAndrew Taylor Still (1828-1917) by Philip K. WilsonSamuel-Auguste-André-David Tissot (1728-1797) by Antoinette Emch-DeriazRobert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) by Carol HelmstadterLouis-René Villermé (1782-1863) by Michel ValentinWilliam Withering (1741-1799) by Paul G. DymentWu Lien-teh (1879-1960) by William C. SummersHillel Yaffe (1864-1936) by Shifra ShvartsYayoi Yoshioka (1871-1959) by Sally Ann HastingsMarie Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829-1902) by Deborah Kuhn McGregorAppendix A: Listing by Occupations and Special InterestsAppendix B: Listing by Date of BirthAppendix C: Listing by Place of BirthAppendix D: Listing of FemalesSuggestions for References and Further ReadingIndex