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Ludwik Hirszfeld - The Story of One Life (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Ludwik Hirszfeld - The Story of One Life (Hardcover, 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;
in so doing the contrast between the world before and the world
after World War II could not be starker. Hirszfeld wrote this book
while in hiding after he escaped from the Warsaw ghetto in 1943; he
buried the manuscript and retrieved it only after the war. Drawing
on interviews with Hirszfeld's former students and family, as well
as unpublished documents, this translation is annotated and has an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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