Tinsley Harrison, M.D.
Tinsley Harrison, M.D.

Author: James Pittman

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1588382265

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Tinsley Harrison -- doctor, teacher, researcher, medical school leader -- is one of the most important medical figures of the 20th century. He edited the first five editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, regarded as a quintessential medical text and perhaps the best-selling medical textbook of all time. He traveled the world in his capacity as a teaching doctor, made significant contributions to scholarship, and served as the dean/medical chairman at four medical schools. He is a titan of the field, an enormous presence central to the narrative of American medicine. Author Dr. James Pittman knew Harrison well, studying and teaching with him from the 1950s until Harrison’s death. Pittman spent six years interviewing Harrison near the end of Harrison’s life, and these lengthy interviews, as well as interviews with his colleagues, family and friends, form the bulk of the scholarship of this compulsively readable book. Pittman brings his own medical knowledge to the fore, as well as his personal friendship with the subject, in this beautifully written character study of one of science’s great but not well-known men. Harrison lived a long, exciting life, and in these pages, readers will get a glimpse of the historical forces that shaped and in turn were shaped by this legendary doctor.

Greater Than the Parts
Greater Than the Parts

Author: Christopher Lawrence

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780195109047

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The history of orthodox biomedicine in the twentieth century is usually depicted as one of icreasing reductionism and dependence on laboratory sciences and technology. Holism today is commonly regarded as an alternative to regular healing and a reaction to it. In fact, in the interwar years, clinicians and basic scientists in Europe and North America responded to what they perceived as the increasing reductionism, routinizing and mechanization of the biomedical sciences and clinical practice by creating holistic models of the body's activities and models of healing based the whole, individual sufferer. Holistic responses were also visible in public health and epidemiology. The essays collected here explore this previously neglected area. They show how the holistic turn in orthodox medicine in the interwar years was a reaction to the scietific reductionism and the specialization and division of labor and medicine. In addition, all show how this movement was part of a more general response to modernity itself, political, idealogical and cultural upheaval of the years between the war

Building Schools, Making Doctors
Building Schools, Making Doctors

Author: Katherine L. Carroll

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2022-05-31

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0822988690

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In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly every medical college in the country rebuilt or substantially renovated its facility. In Building Schools, Making Doctors, Katherine Carroll reveals how the schools constructed during this fifty-year period did more than passively house a remodeled system of medical training; they actively participated in defining and promoting an innovative pedagogy, modern science, and the new physician. Interdisciplinary and wide ranging, her study moves architecture from the periphery of medical education to the center, uncovering a network of medical educators, architects, and philanthropists who believed that the educational environment itself shaped how students learned and the type of physicians they became. Carroll offers the first comprehensive study of the science and pedagogy formulated by the buildings, the influence of the schools’ donors and architects, the impact of the structures on the urban landscape and the local community, and the facilities’ privileging of white men within the medical profession during this formative period for physicians and medical schools.

Making Medical Doctors
Making Medical Doctors

Author: Timothy C. Jacobson

Publisher: University Alabama Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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"In many ways, this is the best one-volume history of an American medical school yet to appear. Thoroughly researched, unusually well written, it traces the modern history of a major Southern medical school against the background of national currents in science, medicine, and philanthropy.""--American Historical Review" "" "This book is well documented and intensely readable; it makes a valuable contribution to the history of medical education in the United States and the part played by Vanderbilt University.""--New England"" Journal of Medicine " "" ""Making Medical Doctors "is not a conventional institutional history but rather a study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative university setting. The joining is told by recounting the history of one of the nation's most distinguished medical schools--the Vanderbilt University Medical School, which was rebuilt in the 1920s as a model for medical education and research.""--Journal of Southern History"

Biographical Memoirs
Biographical Memoirs

Author: National Academy of Sciences

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1982-02-01

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0309032873

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Biographic Memoirs: Volume 53 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.