Karl Sudhoff (26 November 1853, Frankfurt am Main - 8 October 1938, Salzwedel) was a German historian of medicine, important in establishing that field as a legitimate discipline for research and teaching within faculties of medicine.
history | Doctor of Medicine | American Museum of Natural History | Natural History Museum | History | Medicine | History (U.S. TV channel) | medicine | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | natural history | Field Museum of Natural History | History of China | National Museum of Natural History | Physical medicine and rehabilitation | The History Channel | New York University School of Medicine | Baylor College of Medicine | Natural history | Jewish history | Washington University School of Medicine | Swedish Museum of Natural History | Strong Medicine | Natural History | National Museum of American History | Carnegie Museum of Natural History | art history | AP United States History | Stanford University School of Medicine | Royal Society of Medicine | Old Crow Medicine Show |
He has held fellowships in History of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (1971–73) and at University College London (1974), before moving in 1974 to the Department of History of Science and Technology, UMIST, Manchester, to work on the history of hospitals in the Manchester region (Lecturer, 1977, later Senior Lecturer).
Psoralea corylifolia (Babchi) is an important plant in the Indian Ayurveda and Tamil Siddha systems of medicine, and also Chinese medicine.
The building houses the School for Medicine and Health and the North East Public Health Observatory, as well the Centre for History of Medicine and Disease, the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit (Department of Psychology), the Durham Endocrinology Laboratory (Department of Anthropology), the Durham University Clinical Trials Unit and researchers from the Geography department.
Elgood's major achievement was that he managed to combine the commonly delved into history of Post-Islamic Persia as cited through works of such Arabophone Persians such as Ali Abbas Majusi, Razi, and Avicenna, with the less commonly studied history of medicine in Pre-Islamic Persia.
As revised for the 14th edition (1929) Rolleston's part was Medicine, General (in volume 15), followed by the other part, Medicine, History of, by Charles Singer, Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of London.
In 1985-86, as part of a rationalisation, he moved to the Victoria University of Manchester and established the Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CHSTM), including the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and the National Archive for the History of Computing before directing the Centre until 2002 when he became a Research Professor.
John M. Riddle (born 1937), a scholar who specializes in the history of medicine
Sonu Shamdasani, author, editor, and Reader at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
University of Cambridge is Director of the project; James Secord of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and Janet Browne of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London were the principal investigators for the grant.