Bibliography of Milton Charles Winternitz

Milton C. Winternitz

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

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...

A Challenging Leader

Milton Charles Winternitz received his B.A. degree from the Johns Hopkins University at the age of eighteen years and thereupon entered the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. At this early age he began what was to be a brilliant career as a student of medicine, teacher, administrator , scientist, humanitarian, and philosopher. Rarely is one individual endowed with outstanding proficie...

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

This paper considers the antecedent events that led to the development of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, the program of interdisciplinary research and teaching established, and the principal protagonists, James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, and Milton C. Winternitz, Dean of the School of Medicine, both of whom were committed to the concept that medicine is a social science.