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The mentally ill in America-A History of their care and treatment from colonial times (1937). Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993) Duffy, John. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (1990) Grob, Gerald M. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America (2002) online
Bradbury Robinson — threw the first legal forward pass in American football history while a medical student at St. Louis University; Peter Mark Roget — English lexicographer; Jacques Rogge — sports official; Mowaffak al-Rubaie — human rights advocate, member of the Interim Iraqi Governing Council; Benjamin Rush — signer of the United ...
In 1884, he was the first physician recruited to be a professor at the newly forming Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. [1] By 1886, he had 16 graduate physicians working in his laboratory – the first postgraduate training program for physicians in the country. [1]
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search; Singer, Charles, and E. Ashworth Underwood. A Short History of Medicine (2nd ed. 1962) Watts, Sheldon. Disease and Medicine in World History (2003), 166pp online Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 [a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder. A Black American, he founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.
After World War II, nearly two dozen physicians, scientists and public health officials were among the Nazi leaders who were tried for their role in the holocaust at the Nuremberg Trials. This ...
James Derham [1] (May 2, 1762 [2] —1802?) (also known as James Durham) [3] was an American physician and emancipated slave who was the first African American to formally practice medicine in the United States. [4] Despite practicing medicine he never received an M.D. degree.