Doctors of Another Calling
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Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine

Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine


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About the Book

The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine. This book, largely written by members of the medical profession, examines the efforts of doctors in non-medical fields. The doctors discussed here are those who are, or were, well-known to the public for their contributions to their non-medical fields of choice. In many cases, the public may have been unaware that a subject was medically qualified. This book provides wide-ranging and comprehensive biographical sketches of forty-two doctors who are best known to the public for their contributions to fields outside of medicine.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS Foreword (Howard Dean, MD) Acknowledgements (David K.C. Cooper) Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction (David K.C. Cooper) Chapter 1 St. Luke (1st century AD) –– The Most Widely-Read Physician (T. Jock Murray) Chapter 2 Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) –– Physician of the Soul (James E. Bailey) Chapter 3 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) –– Celestial Physician (Michael E. Moran) Chapter 4 John Locke (1632–1704) –– Philosopher and Political Theorist (Barry Silverman) Chapter 5 Hans Sloane (1660–1753) –– The Ultimate Collector (Paul Berman) Chapter 6 Thomas Dover (1660–1742) –– Buccaneer on the High Seas (David K.C. Cooper) Chapter 7 Physician Patriots –– The Doctors Who Signed the American Declaration of Independence: Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), Lyman Hall (1724–1790), Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), Matthew Thornton (1714–1803), Oliver Wolcott (1726–1797) (James R. Johnston) Chapter 8 Mungo Park (1771–1806) –– Explorer of West Africa (Robert P. Turk) Chapter 9 Thomas Young (1773–1829) –– The Smartest Person Ever? (Michael E. Moran) Chapter 10 Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) –– And His Thesaurus (T. Jock Murray) Chapter 11 John Keats (1795–1821) –– Romantic Poet (Joseph B. VanderVeer Jr.) Chapter 12 Abraham Gesner (1797–1864) –– Father of the Petroleum Industry (T. Jock Murray) Chapter 13 Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) –– Writer and Philosopher (Charles S. Bryan) Chapter 14 David Livingstone (1813–1873) –– Explorer of Africa (Mabel L. Purkerson) Chapter 15 Alexander Borodin (1834–1887) –– Russian Composer (Paul Berman) Chapter 16 William Chester Minor (1834–1920) –– Murderer and Maestro of Words (Clyde Partin) Chapter 17 John Henry “Doc” Holliday (1851–1887) –– Tombstone Legend (Sandra W. Moss) Chapter 18 John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) –– Of Cereal Fame (J. Gordon Frierson) Chapter 19 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) –– Creator of Sherlock Holmes (James G. Ravin) Chapter 20 Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) –– Russian Writer (Joseph B. VanderVeer Jr.) Chapter 21 Leonard Wood (1860–1927) –– Controversial Military Leader (J. Gordon Frierson and Daniel Morgan) Chapter 22 Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) –– Reformer and Revolutionary (J. Gordon Frierson) Chapter 23 Edward Wilson (1872–1912) –– Antarctic Explorer, Painter, and Naturalist (Jessie L. Ternberg) Chapter 24 W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) –– Teller of Tales (Angela Nicholls) Chapter 25 Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) –– Organist, Theologian, and Nobel Laureate (J. Michael Fuller) Chapter 26 Archibald Joseph (A. J.) Cronin (1896–1981) –– Best-selling Novelist (Peter E. Dans) Chapter 27 Jules Stein (1896–1981) –– Visionary Extraordinaire (Rob H. Stone and Marvin J. Stone) Chapter 28 Armand Hammer (1898–1990) –– Businessman Extraordinaire (David K.C. Cooper) Chapter 29 Henry Stallard (1901–1973) –– The 1924 Paris Olympics and Chariots of Fire (John D. Bullock) Chapter 30 Boyd Neel (1905–1981) –– Medicine or Music? (C. Peter W. Warren) Chapter 31 Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928–1967) –– Iconic Revolutionary (Amy L. Cooper) Chapter 32 Roger Bannister (1929– ) –– The Four-minute Mile (David K.C. Cooper) Chapter 33 Graham Chapman (1941–1989) –– From Medicine to Monty Python (David Cooper) Chapter 34 Abraham Verghese (1955– ) –– His Own Countries, His Own Profession (Joseph W. Lella) Chapter 35 Khaled Hosseini (1965– ) –– Novelist and Humanitarian (Joseph W. Lella) Medical students who did not complete their studies Chapter 36 Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) –– Polar Explorer (J. Michael Fuller) Chapter 37 Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler (1875–1962) –– Violinist and Composer (J. Michael Fuller) Chapter 38 Lu Xun (1881–1936) –– The Pen Is Mightier Than the Scalpel (C. Peter W. Warren) Appendix 1 Who Could Have Been Chosen? (David K.C. Cooper) Appendix 2 Selected Physicians from Thomas Monro’s Collection of More Than Five- hundred Who Were Noted for Their Achievements Outside of Medicine (David K.C. Cooper) About the Contributors

About the Author :
David K.C. Cooper is a professor of surgery at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh.

Review :
Doctors of Another Calling, edited by Cooper, is a type of reference book. More than 25 professional contributors, most with medical degrees, provide brief profiles of selected physicians as well as a few key individuals who studied medicine but made contributions in numerous other disciplines, such as literature and the arts, politics, and nonmedical science fields. The 40-plus biographies average about ten pages in length and are in chronological order starting with the apostle Luke. The youngest physician presented in the collection is contemporary novelist Khaled Hosseini. Other noteworthy individuals featured include Dante, Roger Bannister, Keats, Che Guevara, and A. J. Cronin, to mention a few. Each account covers the dual life of the male personage considered. No women are identified. Entries contain sources for further readings and portraits of the respective individuals. A valuable resource for history of medicine collections. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781611495973
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 494
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Weight: 707 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1611495970
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine
  • Width: 150 mm


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