S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D. NEUROLOGIST. A Medical Biography

Personalizing illness and modernity: S. Weir Mitchell, literary women, and neurasthenia, 1870-1914.

This article examines how the affliction of neurasthenia, commonly diagnosed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, acted as a catalyst for intellectual and lifestyle changes during a time of modernization. At the center of the study are three individuals: neurologist S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) and two of his patients, critic and historian Amelia Gere Mason (1831-1923) and writ...

Biography of Camran Nezhat, MD, FACOG, FACS

Camran Nezhat has influenced almost every aspect of our laparoscopic lives. His vision, perseverance, and humanistic focus have propelled our field away from the established yet awkward “single eye” and mostly diagnostic laparoscopy to his method of operative laparoscopy, which has revolutionized modern day surgery. Also, his prediction and claim that almost all open surgeries could be and shou...

A Select Bibliography of Medical Biography, with an Introductory Essay on Medical Biography

Medical Officer, where he remained until his retirement in 1950. At the Ministry he was responsible for organizing the introduction of the National Health Service which came into being on 5 July 1948. Following his retirement he was appointed medical adviser to the King Edward's Hospital Fund for Lpndon. Such are the bare facts of the career of a man who pres4nted the picture of great public su...

Drs. S. Weir Mitchell and Edward T. Reichert on the Poison of Heloderma Suspectum (Cope), the Gila Monster

A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...