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Ludwik Hirszfeld - The Story of One Life (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Ludwik Hirszfeld - The Story of One Life (Paperback, annotated edition)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
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An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish
microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his
contributions to international public health. Ludwik Hirszfeld
(1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth
century, discovered the inheritance and established the
nomenclature of blood groups and opened the field of human
population genetics. He also carried out groundbreaking research in
the genetics of disease and immunology. Following World War II, he
founded Poland's first Institute of Immunology in Wroclaw, which
now bears his name. His autobiographical memoir, The Story of One
Life, first published in Poland in 1946, immediately became a
bestseller and has been reedited several times since. It is an
outstanding account of a Holocaust survivor and a writer capable of
depicting the uniqueness and the tragedy of countless individuals
caught up in the nightmare of 1939-45. He recollects his time as a
physician in the Serbian army in 1915 and his satisfaction as a
scientist who helped rebuild Poland after the Treaty ofVersailles;
the contrast between the world before and the world after World War
II could not be starker. Hirszfeld escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto
in 1943; he hid the manuscript for this book and retrieved it only
after the war. Drawing on unpublished documents, as well as
interviews with Hirszfeld's former students and family, this
translation is annotated and has an introduction written by two
scholars with unique qualifications to understand both the
immediate setting in which Hirszfeld lived his life, and the
broader implications of his work to the history of medicine. Marta
A. Balinska is a writer and an international consultant in public
health. William H.Schneider is Professor of History at Indiana
University.
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