Henry E. Sigerist - Correspondences with Welch, Cushing, Garrison, and Ackerknecht (Paperback, New edition)

Henry E. Sigerist (1891-1957) is known as the most influential medical historian in the first half of the 20th century. More than that he was a scholar of an unusually broad spectrum of activities. 50 years after his death he is still the subject of publications. During his active life in Zurich, Leipzig, Baltimore, and again in Switzerland he exchanged letters with some 300 correspondents of all walks of cultural life. The letters to Sigerist as well as the copies of his own letters are preserved in near completeness, a fact that allowed an unabridged and annotated edition. This volume contains Sigerist's correspondences with the architect of American medicine, William H. Welch, the pioneer brain surgeon, Harvey Cushing, the medical bibliographer, Fielding H. Garrison, and the medical historian, Erwin H. Ackerknecht. The letters allow insight into the correspondents' biographies and activities, their private lives, and relationships between persons, topics, and books. They also reflect the eventful time of the mid-20th century. To each of the four correspondences is added an introduction and indices of literary works and of persons mentioned.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Marcel H Bickel
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	490
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-430320-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	3-03-430320-3
Barcode:	9783034303200

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