Doctors, Nurses, and Medical Practitioners - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

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.

Sommario

Introduction by Lois N. Magner
William Beaumont (1785-1853) by Cynthia De Haven Pitcock
John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) by Nancy Eckerman
Emily Blackwell (1826-1910) by Linda L. Goldstein
Ernst P. Boas (1891-1955) by Jane Pacht Brickman
William Boyd (1885-1979) by Ian Carr
Miguel Bustamante (1898-1986) by Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Allan Butler (1894-1986) by Jane Pacht Brickman
Mary Steichen Calderone (1904- ) by Marcia Meldrum
Maude E. Callen (1900-1990) by Patricia Evridge Hill
Kate Campbell (1899-1986) by Barry Firkin
Robert Davies Defries (1889-1975) by Christopher J. Rutty
Paul Henry De Kruif (1890-1971) by William C. Summers
Robert Latou Dickinson (1861-1950) by Vern L. Bullough
Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956) by Susan Rimby Leighow
Erik Homburger Erikson (1902-1994) by Stephen Soreff
Alice Caterine Evans (1881-1975) by John L. Parascandola
Carl Emil Fenger (1814-1884) by Signild Vallgårda
Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) by Juan A. del Regato
Thomas Francis, Jr. (1900-1969) by Marcia Meldrum
Solomon Carter Fuller (1872-1953) by John Potter
John Farquhar Fulton (1899-1960) by Thomas P. Gariepy
Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929) by Alan M. Kraut
William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920) by Juan A. del Regato
Leonard Greenburg (1893-1991) by Jacqueline Karnell Corn
Cordelia Agnes Greene (1831-1905) by Linda Lehmann Goldstein
Madhusudan Gupta (1800?-1856) by Ranes C. Chakravorty
Sami Ibrahim Haddad (1890-1957) by Farid S. Haddad
William Heberden (1710-1801) by T. J. Murray
John Hunter (1728-1793) by T. V. N. Persaud
Thomas Adeoye Lambo (1923- ) by Jonathan Sadowsky
Manuel Martínez Báez (1894-1987) by Ana Cecilia Rodriguez de Romo
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) by Sidney Ochs
Carlos Montezuma (1865-1923) by Todd Benson
Nagayo Sensai (1838-1902) by Ann Bowman Jannetta
Roswell Park (1852-1914) by Andrew A. Gage
Thomas J. Parran, Jr.(1892-1968) by Lynne Page Snyder
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) by Dora B. Weiner
Nicholas J. Pisacano (1924-1990) by David P. Adams and Alan L. Moore
Eunice Rivers (1899-1986) by Susan E. Lederer
Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993) by Allen Weisse
Mahendralal Sarkar (1833-1904) by Asoke K. Bagchi
Henry Alfred Schroeder (1906-1975) by Eugene D. Weinberg
Michael Abraham Shadid (1882-1966) by Farid Sami Haddad
Hilla Sheriff (1903-1988) by Patricia Evridge Hill
Henry Ernest Sigerist (1891-1957) by Genevieve Miller
James Marion Sims (1813-1883) by Deborah Kuhn McGregor
Theobald Smith (1859-1934) by G. Terry Sharrer
Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917) by Philip K. Wilson
Samuel-Auguste-André-David Tissot (1728-1797) by Antoinette Emch-Deriaz
Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) by Carol Helmstadter
Louis-René Villermé (1782-1863) by Michel Valentin
William Withering (1741-1799) by Paul G. Dyment
Wu Lien-teh (1879-1960) by William C. Summers
Hillel Yaffe (1864-1936) by Shifra Shvarts
Yayoi Yoshioka (1871-1959) by Sally Ann Hastings
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829-1902) by Deborah Kuhn McGregor
Appendix A: Listing by Occupations and Special Interests
Appendix B: Listing by Date of Birth
Appendix C: Listing by Place of Birth
Appendix D: Listing of Females
Suggestions for References and Further Reading
Index

Info autore

Lois N. Magner

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Magner Lois N.
• Con la collaborazione di: Lois N. Magner (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.08.1997
• EAN: 9780313294525
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29452-5
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Health and Wellness: Medicine