The Physician in the American Revolution; CIBA Symposia, Volume 2, Number 4, 1940
Summit, NJ: CIBA Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., 1940. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. 497-528] pages . Includes illustrations. Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling. Several holes at binding edge (may have been disbound from a bound volume). Pencil erasure residue on T-C. The Novartis Foundation produces Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine. The Novartis Foundation was originally known as the Ciba Foundation. This issue contains articles entitled The Medical Departments of the Army and Navy during the War of Independence; Physicians as Soldiers in the Revolutionary Armies; Political Activities of Revolutionary Physicians; and Medical Literature Produced During the War of Independence. The Editor, George Rosen, was a giant of 20th Century History of Medicine. George Rosen (1910–1977) was an American physician, public health administrator, journal editor, and medical historian. His major interests were of the relationship of social, economic and cultural factors upon health. The Ciba Foundation Symposia was a historical brochure financed by the drug company and distributed to physicians. In 1944, he took over the editorship until the publication was discontinued in 1950. Rosen entered the U.S. Army during World War II and was assigned to the Surgeon General’s Office as an epidemiologist. He was transferred to London where his knowledge of German was used in intelligence work. He returned to the New York City Department of Health after the war but left in 1950 to become medical director of Health Insurance Program (HIP), a prepaid group medical practice. He stayed for seven years. In 1951, he was appointed to a part-time professorship in health education at Columbia University and taught courses in health education, community health, the sociology of mental illness, and the history of medicine. In 1957, he became a full-time professor. In 1969, Rosen left Columbia to become professor of medical history and public health at Yale University. He remained until his death in 1977. Rosen published articles and books on public health and the history of medicine, and the sociological, economic, and cultural aspects on health. By the time he died in 1977, he had a bibliography of nine books and approximately 200 articles. While Rosen was still in the Army, he and two associates founded the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Rosen was the editor between 1946 and 1952, and he remained on the Editorial Board. He was also the editor of the American Journal of Public Health from 1957 to 1973, served on the Editorial Board, and was known for his erudite editorials on a wide variety of topics. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: American Revolution, Army Medical Department, Navy Medical Department, War of Independence, Military Medicine, Military Physicians, Medical Literature, John Brooks, David Ramsey, Lyman Hall, Benjamin Rush
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