Herbert Ratner

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Herbert Ratner is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, Loyola University Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University

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PhD History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University
Masters History Columbia University
Bachelors History Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Herbert Spencer Ratner , was an American physician. He taught and wrote on the philosophy and history of medicine and was a popular lecturer on marriage and the family. Ratner was the director of public health for the community of Oak Park, Illinois, for twenty-five years. An advocate of preventive family medicine based on natural norms, he was also a long-time proponent of informed medical consent, and played a pivotal role in the polio vaccine controversy beginning in 1955. For more than twenty-nine years Ratner was editor of Child and Family Quarterly, a paramedical journal which ran articles on the Hippocratic Oath, infant development, women’s health, and other topics related to family health.

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Herbert Ratner's Published Works

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Oral-Contraceptive Use and the Risk of Breast Cancer (1987) (82)
Risk factors for uterine fibroids: reduced risk associated with oral contraceptives (1986) (21)
Oral contraception dropout rate. (1967) (6)
The Present Status of Polio Vaccines. (1960) (5)
National Commission on Human Life Reproduction and Rhythm (1969) (1)
[Book Review of] Passion of a Believer , by Eugene F. Diamond (1991) (1)
The Physican's Obligation: Society vs. Person (1978) (1)
DEFICIENCIES IN PRESENT-DAY MEDICAL EDUCATION. (1965) (1)
MENINGOCOCCAL RASH (1988) (1)
Oral-contraceptive use and the risk of breast cancer [letter] (1987) (1)
The diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis. (1987) (1)
Anti-convulsant drugs, smoking, and body weights in psychiatric in-patients. (1993) (1)
Varying carbohydrate intake in NIDDM. (1994) (1)
VARYING CARBOHYDRATES INTAKE IN NIDDM. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1994) (0)
Oral contraceptives and cardiovascular disease [letter] (1982) (0)
Some perspectives on population. (1971) (0)
Letter from Herbert Ratner to C. Everett Koop (1981) (0)
Nature's Answer to AIDS (1989) (0)
Commission on Rhythm: the 2nd International Symposium on Rhythm. (1966) (0)
Editors' Note (1983) (0)
ISMS symposium on medical implications of the current abortion law in Illinois. (1967) (0)
Overpopulation: The False Culprit (1971) (0)
Marriage and Overpopulation (1962) (0)
Commission on Rhythm: Bulletin No. 3 (1966) (0)
Hippocrates has vital meaning for physicians. (1953) (0)
Nature, Mother and Teacher: Her Norms (1983) (0)
NUTRITIONAL CONTROVERSIES (1983) (0)
The Physician: A Normative Artist (1983) (0)
Letters to the editor. (1971) (0)
The 1955 Salk Polio Vaccine and the 1957-61 Niles Leukemia Cluster: A Flawed Investigation by the U.S. Public Health Service (2002) (0)
Oral contraceptives and cardiovascular disease. (1982) (0)
Injectable contraception. (1981) (0)
Right to Life Homily (1980) (0)
BOOKLET NO. 4 ON SALK VACCINE (1957) (0)
Poliomyelitis vaccine. (1956) (0)
The Physician: A Normative Artist a Brief Analysis (1987) (0)
Practical difficulties in defining the word normal in medicine. (1950) (0)
Injectable contraception. [Letter] (1981) (0)
Origin of AIDS. (1992) (0)
Phenytoin and smoking. (1992) (0)
Origin of AIDS (1992) (0)
Book Review: Passion of a Believer (1991) (0)
Book Review of Health to Match Her Dedication by James T. Nix, M.D. and C.J. Fecher, Ph.D. (1967) (0)
October 18 Feast of St. Luke, Patron of Physicians (1951) (0)
The Womanly art of breastfeeding (1963) (0)
Commission on Rhythm (1967) (0)

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