Remembering Lucien Wolf- reconsidering his legacy

Remembering the legacy of Dale E.. Brashers and his contributions to health communication.

On July 5, 2010, Dale E. Brashers, head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and key figure in the field of health communication, passed away in his university office. He was 50 years old. The impact of this loss is still expanding, rippling through the field and the vast network of people who knew him as colleague, mentor, or friend. For some, his...

Remembering a Man and His Book

Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy

studies, that "illness" as well as "disease" should be understood, and this within a holistic perspective of all the forms of therapy available within the "health care system" of a culture. Yet the empirical research embodied in this book is fascinating and important. Over the better part of a decade, Dr. Kleinman did field-work in Taiwan, investigating, from the point of view of the patient as...

Woody Bledsoe - His Life and Legacy

October 1995 of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Woody was one of the founders of AI, making early contributions in pattern recognition and automated reasoning. He continued to make significant contributions to AI throughout his long career. His legacy consists not only of his scientific work but also of several generations of scientists who learned from Woody the joy of scient...

The Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Harry Stack Sullivan: Remembering the Legacy

Having recently celebrated the centennial of the commencing of Harry Stack Sullivan’s distinguished medical career (M.D., 1911), it seems appropriate that both a review of his life and work be brought before a forgetful public and to draw attention to the contribution he has made to contemporary psychotherapeutic practice as the “father of modern psychiatry” as some in the field have insistentl...