Milton C. Winternitz and the Yale Institute of Human Relations: a brief chapter in the history of social medicine.

Early psychiatry at Yale: Milton C. Winternitz and the founding of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene.

Yale's current department of psychiatry was created by Dean Milton C. Winternitz in the 1920s as part of a broader effort to combine mental and physical components of medical care. This effort, which spurred the founding of Yale's institute of Human Relations, was the basis of Winternitz' interest in mental health. Although the institute soon closed because of interdisciplinary squabbling, this...

Milton C. Winternitz

Bibliography of Milton Charles Winternitz

1905 1. Ueber die Adenase. Z. physiol. Chern. Strassb., 1905, 44, 1-10 (with W. Jones (1)). 1908 2. Tuberculosis of the stomach; tuberculous cavities of the liver; with report of a case. Johns Hopk. Hosp. Bull., 1908, 19, 223-228. 3. A case of sigmoid kidney. Johns Hopk. Hosp. Bull., 1908, 19, 229-230. 4. Changes in the pancreatic ducts, and their relation to chronic pancreatitis. Johns Hopk. H...

Milton Charles Winternitz February 19, 1885-October 3, 1959

An Attempt to Interpret a Great Scientist's Contribution to Humanity through Medicine and Nursing

It is my great privilege and honor to attempt an interpretation of a great scientist's vision and achievements, a challenge far beyond my pen. Milton C. Winternitz chose for his life work what I deem to be, if such comparisons are permissible, the greatest of professions. For to this profession the twentieth century has given a master key called Science, which is opening weekly, almost daily, t...