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- *The Alienist: A Novel (Dr. Lazlo Kreizler Book 1) by Caleb Carr: “The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or “alienist.”
- American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy K. Bristow: “American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the 1918 influenza outbreak.
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts: “Shilts’ expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80’s while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat.
- Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones: “Bad Blood provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy could have been allowed to occur.
Feb 23, 2016 · Study Medicine Europe. It’s tough to pinpoint only a small amount of influential doctors, researchers, and scientists who have moved medicine forward in significant ways — but this infographic depicts a select few in history who have made some of the biggest impacts.
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- Dr. Ben Carson: the only neurosurgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head, and the first to perform intrauterine neurosurgery on a fetus in the womb.
- Dr. Mae Jemison: the physician and engineer who also became the first black female astronaut in NASA history. Jemison got a full ride to Stanford when she was just 16, and after getting a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, went on to get her medical degree at Cornell University.
- Dr. Charles Drew: the surgeon who pioneered research on blood plasma for transfusions and helped organize the first large-scale blood bank in the US.
- Dr. Marilyn Huges Gaston: the first female and first black physician to direct a public health service bureau. Gaston received her medical degree from University of Cincinnati, and afterwards went to Philadelphia General Hospital to research sickle cell disease (SCD), a potentially fatal inherited blood disorder.
Apr 19, 2022 · 480 pages : 27 cm. Chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers.
In this last installment of our four-part series, we dig into the achievements of the individuals we've named the top 10 most influential physicians in history, identifying the contributions that...
Nov 8, 2021 · Here Professor Keith Wailoo, a historian of medicine and public health at Princeton University, recommends books that shed light on the social history of medicine, especially in the United States. Interview by Eve Gerber
Aug 11, 2014 · Some 15 million yellowed pages of text and images from arcane 19th-century medical books are about to go digital.
