Title: Medical lives and scientific medicine at Michigan, 1891-1969 /
Authors: Howell, Joel D.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: University of Michigan.; University of Michigan. Biography.; University of Michigan; Education, Medical; Physicians; Physicians.; Education, Medical history; Medical research personnel Michigan Ann Arbor Biography.; Medicine Research Michigan Ann Arbor History.; Physicians Michigan Ann Arbor Biography.; Medicine Michigan Ann Arbor Faculty Biography.; Universities and colleges Michigan Ann Arbor.; Medical colleges Michigan Ann Arbor.; Michigan
Abstract: U.S. health care has changed dramatically during the past century. A new breed of physicians use new machines, vaccines, and ideas in ways that have touched the lives of virtually everyone. How and why did these changes occur?
Contents: Introduction / Joel D. Howell -- The University of Michigan Medical School: A Tradition of Leadership / Kenneth M. Ludmerer -- George Dock at Michigan, 1891-1908 / Horace W. Davenport -- Albion Walter Hewlett: Teacher, Clinician, Scientist, and Missionary for "Pathologic Physiology" / W. Bruce Fye -- Cyrus Cressey Sturgis and American Internal Medicine, 1913-57 / Steven C. Martin -- Frank Norman Wilson: Theory, Technology, and Electrocardiography / Joel D. Howell -- Louis Harry Newburgh and Metabolism at Michigan / Steven J. Peitzman -- L.H. Newburgh: A Remembrance / Alexander Leaf -- Thomas Francis, Jr.: From the Bench to the Field / Naomi Rogers.