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Charles A. Janeway: Pediatrician to the World´s Children
Robert J. Haggerty
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Hardback. Janeway was one of the most prominent paediatricians of the 20th century. This biography describes his illustrious medical family and his remarkable tenure of nearly three decades as Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and head of the department of medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston. Num Pages: 425 pages, 22 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGT; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 812.
This biography of one of the most prominent pediatricians of the twentieth century describes his illustrious medical family and his remarkable tenure of nearly three decades as Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and head of the department of medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston. During this period Janeway built the first department of pediatrics in the nation with subspecialties based upon the new developments in basic sciences. Janeway and his colleagues defined the gamma globulin disorders that resulted in children's increased susceptibility to infections and associated arthritic disorders.
Janeway was the most visible U.S. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674023802
SKU
V9780674023802
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About Robert J. Haggerty
Robert J. Haggerty is a Pediatrician at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. is William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
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Robert Haggerty and Frederick Lovejoy, two of Janeway's most devoted and distinguished trainees (and there were hundreds of them), have composed a well-written biography of Janeway that details his family background and his career. These are accounts that embrace the history of academic medicine. Although the major intended audience of this well documented and illustrated book includes physicians who served ... Read more