Book ID: CBB000075214

Making medical history: The life and times of Henry E. Sigerist (1997)

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Fee, Elizabeth (Editor)
Brown, Theodore M. (Editor)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xiii + 387 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Fee, Elizabeth, Brown, Theodore M.: Introduction: The renaissance of a reputation. Bickel, Marcel H.: Family background and early years in Paris and Zurich, 1891-1925. Kästner, Ingrid: The Leipzig period, 1925-1932. Miller, Genevieve: A European outpost in America: The Hopkins Institute, 1932-1947. Veith, Ilza: Henry E. Sigerist: Orientalist. Beeson, Nora Sigerist: My father, H.E.S.: A photo essay. Temkin, Owsei: Henry E. Sigerist and aspects of medical historiography. Von Staden, Heinrich: “Hard realism” and “a few romantic moves”: Henry Sigerist's versions of ancient Greece. McVaugh, Michael R.: “I always wish I could go back”: Sigerist the medievalist. Fee, Elizabeth, Brown, Theodore M.: Intellectual legacy and political quest: The shaping of a historical ambition. Fee, Elizabeth: The pleasures and perils of prophetic advocacy: Socialized medicine and the politics of American medical reform. Hutchinson, John F.: Dances with commissars: Sigerist and Soviet medicine. Lear, Walter J.: Hot war creation, cold war casualty: The American-Soviet Medical Society, 1943-1948. Brown, Theodore M.: Friendship and philanthropy: Henry Sigerist, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Roemer, Milton I., Falk, Leslie A., Brown, Theodore M.: Sociological vision and pedagogic mission: Henry Sigerist's medical sociology. Brown, Theodore M., Fee, Elizabeth: “Anything but amabilis”: Henry Sigerist's impact on the history of medicine in America.


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Review Brieger, G.H. (1999) Review of "Making medical history: The life and times of Henry E. Sigerist". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 99-100). unapi

Review Webster, C. (1999) Review of "Making medical history: The life and times of Henry E. Sigerist". Medical History (pp. 119-20). unapi

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Review Grob, G.N. (1998) Review of "Making medical history: The life and times of Henry E. Sigerist". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 357-58). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fee, Elizabeth
Sigerist, Henry E.
Duffin, Jacalyn M.
Bickel, Marcel H.
Upshur, Ross
Duffee, Charlotte Mary
Concepts
Medicine
Historiography
History of medicine, as a discipline
Health
Public health
Medical humanities
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
Germany
United States
Spain
India
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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