Dictionary of American Medical Biography
Subtitle: Set
Contributors: Martin Kaufman (Editor); Stuart Galishoff (Editor); Todd L. Savitt (Editor); Joseph Carvalho (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: August 14, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1028
ISBN-13: 9780313213786
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; USA; General; Ethnic Studies - General; United States - 19th Century; Biography; Dictionaries; Healers; Medicine; Public health personnel; United States
Description: 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.