Title: Dictionary of American medical biography /
Authors: Kaufman, Martin,; Galishoff, Stuart,; Savitt, Todd Lee,
Date: 1984
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Physical description: 2 v. (xvi, 1027 p.) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: Over 500 biographical entries to deceased persons who made significant contributions to American medicine and public health from the seventeenth century through 1976. Includes physicians, nonphysicians, representative blacks and women from each state and the District of Columbia, and persons who presented alternative health care. Entries give name of subject, dates, career information, contributions, important writings and references. Miscellaneous appendixes. Index.
Contents: v. 1. A-L -- v. 2. M-Z.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Healers--Biography--Dictionaries--United States.; Healers--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.; Healers--United States--Biography.; Medicine--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.; Medicine--United States--Biography.; Public health personnel; Public health personnel--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.; Public health personnel--United States--Biography.; United States