Enduring contributions of Henry K. Beecher to medicine, science, and society
By: edited by Edward Lowenstein and Bucknam McPeek
Series: International anesthesiology clinics -- v. 45, no. 4
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hagerstown, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Anesthesiology; History; History, 20th Century
Notes: "Fall 2007"

"This volume is being published to celebrate the establishment of the Henry K. Beecher Professorship in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School."--p. xiii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Study of deaths associated with anesthesia and surgery; title: Contribution of anesthesia to surgical mortality; title: Experimental pharmacology and measurement of the subjective response; title: Pain and subjective responses; title: Surgery as placebo: a quantitative study of bias; title: Quintessential Beecher: surgery as placebo: a quantitative study of bias; title: Ethics and clinical research; title: Recruiting allies for reform: Henry Knowles Beecher's "Ethics and Clinical Research"; title: From LSD to the IRB: Henry Beecher's psychedelic research and the foundation of clinical ethics; title: Definition of irreversible coma; title: Defining brain death: motivations and future directions; title: Henry K. Beecher: his life in part: the Kansas years; title: Harry at Harvard: Beecher's student years at Harvard Medical School (1928 to 1932); title: Photographs from the life of Henry K. Beecher; title: From 90-day wonder to professor of anesthesia: my acquaintance with Henry K. Beecher and recollections of MGH, 1946 to 1957; title: From beyond Dedham; title: And so to Boston (1954-1955); title: Memories of Henry K. Beecher and MGH; title: From the other side of the ether screen; title: Papa Beecher; title: Personal memories of HKB: reflections after 50 years; title: "Harry, I hardly knew ye"; title: A German view of Henry K. Beecher; title: Memorial minute: Henry K. Beecher: a pioneer in anesthesiology.