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- People: Owsei Temkin, Fielding H. Garrison, Vivian Nutton, William Osler, Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht, Kurt Sprengel, Justus Hecker, August Hirsch, Karl Sudhoff, Johann Baas, Karl Lamprecht, John Shaw Billings, Ludwig Edelstein, William H. Welch, Leopold von Ranke, Nathan Sivin, Charles E. Rosenberg, Joseph Needham, Michel Foucault (esp. for The Birth of the Clinic, Georges Canguilhem, Henry E. Sigerist, Roy Porter, G. E. Berrios
- Institutions: UCL Centre for the History of Medicine (= "Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine"), Johns Hopkins University, Osler Library of the History of Medicine (or Osler Library, at McGill University), National Library of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club
- Publications: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Hopkins), Isis, Histoire des sciences médicales
Study of Greek medicine and Roman medicine, Hippocrates, Galen, doctor-patient relation.
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- American Association for the History of Medicine: http://histmed.org
- Institute of the History of Medicine, now Department at Johns Hopkins (founded in 1929): http://histmed.jhmi.edu
- Medical history (journal): published by the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine
Beginnings edit
A few early books, but mostly 19th-century Germany. Many big names, but emphasis on Karl Sudhoff. Explain what they were interested in.
Johns Hopkins edit
Move from Germany to US, centering on Johns Hopkins medical school and Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club; more big names (Osler, Sigerist, Ackerknecht, etc.); new problematiques.