Richard Harrison Shryock

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Richard Harrison Shryock's Degrees

PhD History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University
Doctorate Medicine University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Harrison Shryock was an American medical historian, specializing in the connection of medical history with general history. Biography Shryock studied at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy and then at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating there with a bachelor's degree in 1917 and a PhD in American history in 1924. Before 1917 he taught school in Philadelphia. During WWI he served as a private in the United States Army Ambulance Service. He was instructor of history from 1921 to 1924 at Ohio State University and from 1924 to 1925 at the University of Pennsylvania. In Duke University's history department he was an associate professor from 1925 to 1931 and a full professor from 1931 to 1938. At the University of Pennsylvania he was a professor of American history from 1938 to 1949, a lecture on medical history from 1941 to 1947, a professor of medical history from 1948 to 1949, and a professor of history from 1958 to 1963. During WWII he served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Coast Guard.

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The Development of Modern Medicine (1948) (111)
The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved (1936) (107)
The Academic Profession in the United States (1952) (96)
Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860 (1960) (71)
Medical Licensing in America, 1650-1965 (1967) (52)
Medicine in America : historical essays (1967) (48)
The History of Quantification in Medical Science (1961) (44)
The Ranks of Death: A Medical History of the Conquest of America (1947) (33)
Medicine and society in America (1962) (31)
The Letters of Doctor George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1733-1743) (1943) (25)
American medical research : past and present (1948) (20)
Sylvester Graham and the Popular Health Movement, 1830–1870 (1931) (19)
The History of Nursing (1960) (15)
The history of nursing : an interpretation of the social and medical factors involved (1959) (15)
National Tuberculosis Association, 1904-1954 : a study of the voluntary health movement in the United States (1958) (15)
Georgia and the Union in 1850 (1927) (13)
The Pennsylvania Germans (1942) (13)
The unique influence of the Johns-Hopkins University on American medicine. (1953) (11)
Women in American medicine. (1950) (11)
Studies in the History of Science (1941) (11)
European backgrounds of American medical education (1600-1900). (1965) (7)
Portrait of a Colonial City: Philadelphia, 1670-1838 (1942) (6)
Cotton Mather, First Significant Figure in American Medicine. (1955) (6)
THE PSYCHIATRY OF BENJAMIN RUSH (1945) (6)
Book Reviews:S. Weir Mitchell: Novelist and Physician, by Ernest Earnest (1950) (6)
Medical Sources and the Social Historian (1936) (6)
The American physician in 1846 and in 1946; a study in professional contrasts. (1947) (5)
The interplay of social and internal factors in modern medicine; an historical analysis. (1953) (4)
The Significance of Medicine in American History (1956) (4)
The Jefferson-Dunglison Letters (1962) (4)
A Medical Perspective on the Civil War (1962) (4)
The Early American Public Health Movement. (1937) (4)
The Origins and Significance of the Public Health Movement in the United States (1929) (3)
The Status of University Teachers (1963) (3)
A Bibliography of the Writings of Henry E. Sigerist (1968) (3)
Freedom and Interference in Medicine (1938) (3)
Benjamin Rush from the perspective of the Twentieth Century. (1946) (3)
The medical reputation of Benjamin Rush: contrasts over two centuries. (1971) (3)
The Need for Studies in the History of American Science (1944) (3)
A Century of Medical Practice in Philadelphia: 1750-1850 (1941) (2)
Discussion of the Paper by John U. Nef: What Is Economic History? (1944) (2)
Concepts of Insanity in the United States, 1789–1865. By Norman Dain. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1964. xv + 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $9.00.) (1965) (2)
Germ theories in medicine prior to 1870: further comments on continuity in science. (1972) (2)
The Advent of Modern Medicine in Philadelphia, 1800-1850 * (1941) (2)
Report of the activities of the Institute of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University. (1953) (2)
British Versus German Traditions in Colonial Agriculture (1939) (2)
The University of Pennsylvania Faculty: A Study in American Higher Education (1959) (2)
Report of the activities of the Institute of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University during the academic year, 1949-1950. (1950) (2)
The influence of the Johns Hopkins University on American medical education. (1956) (2)
Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal, 1775-1776 (1937) (2)
Historical Traditions in Philadelphia and in the Middle Atlantic Area: An Editorial (1943) (1)
Dr. Welch and medical history. (1950) (1)
Empiricism versus rationalism in American medicine 1650-1950. (1969) (1)
The Log Cabin Myth: A Study of the Early Dwellings of the English Colonists in North America. By HAROLD R. SHURTLEFF. Edited with an Introduction by SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1939. Pp. xxi, 243. $2.50.) (1940) (1)
The Viewpoint of an Historian and a Manuscript Librarian (1962) (1)
A Correction: This Our World: A Pageant of World History (1946) (1)
The International Association of University Professors and Lecturers (1951) (1)
Book Review:Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Benjamin Franklin (1955) (1)
The health of the American people, an historical survey. (1946) (1)
Ugo Benzi: Medieval Philosopher and Physician, 1376–1439. By Dean Putnam Lockwood. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1951. Pp. xvi, 441. $8.00.) (1952) (1)
HANDLIN, OSCAR. Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1865. Pp. xviii, 287. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. $3.25 (1943) (0)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His "Travels Through Life" with His Commonplace Book for 1789-1813 (1949) (0)
Aesculapius Comes to the Colonies. The Story of the Early Days of Medicine in the Thirteen Original Colonies by Maurice Bear Gordon (1950) (0)
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in historical perspective. (1960) (0)
Guide to the Materials in the History Teacher's Magazine and the Historical Outlook (1925) (0)
Human Maladies: History and Geography of the Most Important Diseases . Erwin H. Ackerknecht. Hafner, New York, 1965. 224 pp., illus. $5.50. (1966) (0)
XII. Medicine and the Public Health Movement 1800-1880 (1936) (0)
Boston's Puritan Heritage and Its "Flowering" in Literature and Theology (1940) (0)
KENDRICK, BENJAMIN BURKS, and ALEX MATHEWS ARNETT. The South Looks at Its Past. Pp. viii, 196. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935. $2.00 (1936) (0)
News and notices (1956) (0)
JOSEPH FLETCHER. Morals and Medicine. Pp. xvii, 243. Princeton, N. J.: Prince ton University Press, 1954. $4.50 (1955) (0)
XIV. The Triumphs of Modern Medicine, 1870-1900 (1936) (0)
8. Suspensions and Dismissals (1959) (0)
The Nationalistic Tradition of the Civil War: a Southern Analysis (1933) (0)
7. Appointments and Promotions (1959) (0)
3. Reputation and Morale of the Pennsylvania Faculties (1959) (0)
XVII. A Delayed Advance Against Mental Disease (1936) (0)
XIII. Public Confidence Lost (1936) (0)
In memory of Henry E. Sigerist. (1957) (0)
VIII. Medicine, Mathematics, and the Social Sciences (1936) (0)
Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860@@@Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (1961) (0)
6. Faculty Distribution (1959) (0)
10. The Teaching Function (1959) (0)
The Pennsyvania Germans in American History (1939) (0)
Medical progress during the past century. (1947) (0)
9. Salaries and Fringe Benefits (1959) (0)
XV. Further Progress and Some of the Consequences (1936) (0)
BECKER, CARL L. Progress and Power. Pp. xi, 102. Stanford University: Stan ford University Press, 1936. $1.50 (1936) (0)
SIGERIST, HENRY E. Medicine and Human Welfare. Pp. xiv, 148. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. $2.50 (1942) (0)
Report of the activities of the Institute of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University. (1952) (0)
HIMES, NORMAN E. Medical History of Contraception. Pp. xxx, 521. Balti more : Williams & Wilkins Co., 1936. $7.00 (1936) (0)
George W. Corner as historian and humanist. (1956) (0)
Government in Public Health (1946) (0)
Fame in surgery. (1953) (0)
Book Review: A Short History of Medicine (1966) (0)
The Richmond Meeting of the American Historical Association (1925) (0)
X. The Influence of French Medicine in Europe and America (1936) (0)
VII. Medicine and “The Basic Sciences” (1936) (0)
1. American Higher Education: Problems and Policies (1959) (0)
Competition or Co-operation (1927) (0)
Training of High School Teachers (1927) (0)
Medical Practice in the Old South (1930) (0)
13. What of the Future (1959) (0)
IX. The Emergence of Modern Medicine 1800-1850 (1936) (0)
Book Reviews:Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly, by David Freeman Hawke (1972) (0)
Bibliography of Richard H. Shryock. (1968) (0)
Scientific Interests in the Old South. (1937) (0)
Book Review:A History of Chicago, Vol. II: From Town to City, 1848-1871. Bessie Louise Pierce (1942) (0)
V. Early Contributions of Physic and Physicians to the Public Welfare, 1750-1800 (1936) (0)
Report of the Publications Committee (1943) (0)
William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine. By Donald Fleming. [The Library of American Biography.] (Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1954. Pp. vi, 216. $3.00.) (1955) (0)
Publications Received (1966) (0)
Book Review: Recording American's Past. An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Studies in America, 1607-1884, by David D. Van Tassel (1961) (0)
Book Review: The American Spirit: A Study of the Idea of Civilization in the United States. By Charles and Mary Beard. Vol. IV of The Rise of American Civilization. (1944) (0)
2. Principles of a Faculty Program (1959) (0)
Francis Randolph Packard, 1870-1950. (1950) (0)
"Studies on Benjamin Franklin: The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of His Birth, Jan. 17, 1956"@@@Benjamin Franklin: Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital@@@Mr. Franklin: A Selection from His Personal Papers (1957) (0)
XVI. Public Confidence Regained (1936) (0)
Public Relations of the Medical Profession in Great Britain and the United States: 1600-1870 (1930) (0)
XIX. American Experience (1936) (0)
Notes & Correspondence (1951) (0)
Wisner, Elizabeth. Public Welfare Administration in Louisiana. Pp. xvii, 239. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930. $3.00 (1931) (0)
IV. Renewed Progress Toward an Objective Science 1750-1800 (1936) (0)
XVIII. Practice in a Changing Society, 1880-1930 (1936) (0)
XX. Some Contemporary Questions (1936) (0)
The Rise of Modern Scientific Medicine (1941) (0)
II. The Partial Failure of Physical Science, 1700-1800 (1936) (0)
11. Research and Other Creative Activities (1959) (0)
Medicine in Modern Society (1939) (0)
XI. Modern Medicine in Germany, 1830-1880 (1936) (0)
Before and after; a medical drama of 1849 and 1949. (1949) (0)
Back Matter (1962) (0)
Tambo and Bones: A History of the American Minstrel Stage. By Carl Wittke. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1930. ix + 269 pp. $2.50.) (1931) (0)
International Association of University Professors and Lecturers: Report of Delegates to the Ninth University Conference (1957) (0)
A Short History of Medicine. (1966) (0)
III. Social Factors in Medical Lag After 1700 (1936) (0)
Book Review:Medical Education in the United States before the Civil War William Frederick Norwood (1946) (0)
The Personality of a Magazine: An Editorial (1946) (0)
VI. Science in a Romantic Age, 1800-1850 (1936) (0)
One of a Series: The Unioue Influence of the Johns Hopkins University on American Medicine (1955) (0)
Book Review: Doctors in Blue. The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War, by George Worthington Adams (1953) (0)
A Pictorial History of Medicine (1957) (0)
Report of the Special Committee on Public Relation (1943) (0)
American Medical Research: Past and Present. (1948) (0)
Cultural Factors in the History of the South (1939) (0)
Nineteenth century medicine: scientific aspects. (1957) (0)
Book Reviews: Rebels and Gentlemen: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin, by Carl and Jessica Bridenbaugh (1943) (0)
Medicine and society: a historical perspective. (1953) (0)
I. First Attempts to Establish a Physical Science, 1600-1700 (1936) (0)
Dr. Welch and medical history. (1950) (0)
The William Penn Number (1944) (0)
A Short History of Georgia. By E. Merton Coulter. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933. xiii + 457 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. $3.50.) (1934) (0)
Benjamin Rush, Physician and Citizen, 1746–1813. By Nathan G. Goodman. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1934. 421 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and bibliography. $4.00.) (1935) (0)
Friend of the People: The Life of Dr. Peter Fayssoux, of Charleston, South Carolina. (1951) (0)
5. Rank and Tenure (1959) (0)
Book Review:The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 Charles E. Rosenberg (1965) (0)
Symposium in Honour of Richard H. Shryock (1973) (0)

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