Biomedical subjects
W B Fye
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Disorders of the heartbeat: a historical overview from antiquity to the mid-20th century.
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Medical bibliophiles and historical scholarship.
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The history of medicine. An annotated list of key reference works.
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René-Joseph-Hyacinthe Bertin.
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A history of the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology.
This essay reviews the founding and early history of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association (AHA), the largest of the AHA's 14 councils. Based on archival research, it stresses the factors that led to the council's formation and shaped its agenda. The council was established in the context of the AHA's transition from a professional society to a voluntary health organization in 1948. But the direct stimulus for its creation was the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) first membership drive 3 years later. When the AHA's Section (later Council) on Clinical Cardiology was formally established in 1952, its official purpose was to "facilitate and encourage investigation, prevention, treatment and education in the field of clinical cardiology." Originally strained, the relations between the AHA and the ACC improved as the organizations came to view each other as potential partners rather than rivals.
The discovery of the cardiac conduction system.
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About the history of the discovery of the cardiac conduction system.
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Medical book collecting: a retrospect and a forecast.
Medical book collecting and historical research are complementary pursuits. The author summarizes the contributions of bibliophiles who used their collections as a source of inspiration for historical studies and addresses the challenges confronting medical book collectors.
The origin of the full-time faculty system. Implications for clinical research.
Clinical research has long been viewed as a fragile pursuit requiring special nurturing. The full-time clinical faculty system was introduced in the early 20th century to provide a milieu that would foster clinical investigation. This article, based on extensive archival research, will show that the main goal of the architects of the full-time system was to stimulate research by removing the incentive for medical professors to devote their main energy to practice. The plan was developed by preclinical scientists at The Johns Hopkins Medical School (Baltimore, Md) and was inaugurated there in 1913 with the financial assistance of the Rockefeller General Education Board. As other medical schools adopted traditional academic criteria for appointment and advancement, there were additional incentives for faculty members to undertake research. In the 1920s, the General Education Board yielded to pressure to liberalize its definition of full time and began to support medical schools that implemented what came to be known as the "geographic full-time plan." Increased government support and other factors encouraged the expansion of full-time plans and led to an impressive increase in the output of research. Today, growing pressure on full-time clinical faculty members to generate income from practice for themselves and their institutions threatens the future of clinical research in this country.