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December 2006, Vol 96, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 2104-2105
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.078436

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Rudolf Carl Virchow: Medical Scientist, Social Reformer, Role Model

Theodore M. Brown, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Reprint requests should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, History Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

GENERALLY REGARDED AS one of the most brilliant and influential biomedical scientists of the 19th century, Rudolf Carl Virchow was, remarkably, also one of the most courageous and inspiring proponents of social medicine.1 He was born on October 13, 1821, in Schivelbein, Pomerania, then in eastern Prussia, but since 1945, part of northwestern Poland. Rebellious and intellectually gifted, in 1839 Virchow won a scholarship in 1839 to the Friedrich-Wilhelms Institut in Berlin, Germany, where he received his medical education.2 After obtaining his MD in 1843, he was appointed to an internship at Berlin’s Charite Hospital where he began his clinical . . . [Full Text]






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