Alexander H. Stephens: A Biography

H. H. Kildee, 1884-1973: a brief biography.

Identity's architect: a biography of Erik H Erikson

lesser award of the red ribbon. He claims that no attempt was made to relegate Toussaint to the shadows and that Pasteur supported his award of the Vaillant prize of the Academie des sciences in 1883. But, of course, the grand prize remained Louis Pasteur's. The different emphases of Debre and Geison reflect their aims. Geison's main concern is to show the gap between the practice of research, ...

John H. Knox, 1898-1979: a brief biography.

Walter Reed. A biography

WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...

Harvey Cushing, A Biography

The physician of today may be somewhat bewildered in the face of the vast current literature on penicillin and the conflicting views on methods of administration, dosages, and indications. Dr. Fleming and his 28 associates have now provided a most authoritative and yet practical guide-book concerning the place of this agent in medicine. No one will deny that much remains to be learned of penici...