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.

Reviews

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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