Richard Harrison Shryock

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Richard Harrison Shryock (born March 29, 1893 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † February 1, 1972 ) was an American medical historian who has made a particular contribution to the connection of medical history with general history .

Life

Shryock wasn't a doctor, but studied education and history . After graduating, he turned his attention to the history of medicine and succeeded Henry E. Sigerist on the Chair of Medical History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . Shryock later taught at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and at Duke University in Durham . The focus of his research was on the investigation of the influence of social and scientific factors on the development of medicine. He also wrote treatises on medical historians, for example on Henry E. Sigerist. Shryock's biographer Bell described his importance in medical history as follows:

“If physicians on the one hand wrote medical history without reference to larger patterns of social and intellectual history, general historians on the other usually omitted medicine entirely, except perhaps to mention such catastrophes as the Black Death […]. In this situation it was one of Shryock's aims, as it proved to be one of his achievements, to bring general history into the history of medicine, medical history into general historical narratives, and general historians and physicians together. "

- Bell, WJ, Jr .: Richard H. Shryock: life and work of a historian.

Translation:

“If doctors wrote medical history on the one hand without reference to larger structures of social and intellectual history and general historians on the other hand completely omitted medicine, except perhaps to mention catastrophes like the plague […], then this situation was one of Shryock's goals and one of his greatest achievements is to connect general history with medical history, medical history with the representations of general history and to bring historians and medical professionals together. "

Awards, honors

In 1944 Shryock was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 1949 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1950 he became a corresponding member of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences , in 1956 he was elected a full member. In 1959 he received the George Sarton Medal , the highly prestigious prize for the history of science from the History of Science Society (HSS) founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson . The scientist is commemorated by the Richard Shryock Medal , which has been awarded annually to American or Canadian students by the Shryock Medal Committee since 1984 for outstanding work in the field of medical history . The work, which should not exceed 9000 words including annotations, was awarded to the student Stephen E. Mawdsley of the University of Alberta in 2008 for his work entitled: Polio and Prejudice: Charles Hudson Bynum and the Racial Politics of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1944-1954.

Publications (selection)

  • The Development of Modern Medicine. An Interpretation of the social and scientific Factors involved , 1936
  • American Medical Research. Past and Present , 1945
  • The development of modern medicine in its connection with the social structure and the natural sciences , by Richard Harrison Shryock and Paul Diepgen, Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1947 (paperback)
  • Henry E. Sigerist: His Influence upon Medical History in the United States. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 22, 1948: 19-24.
  • Dr. Welch and Medical History. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 24, 1950: 325-332.
  • The Unique Influence of the Johns Hopkins University on American Medicine. Copenhagen 1953, Ejnar Munksgaard.
  • The History of Nursing. An Interpretation of the social and medical Factors involved , 1959 * Medicine and Society in America , 1660-1860, 1960
  • Empiricism versus Rationalism in American Medicine, 1650-1950 , 1969
  • National Tuberculosis Association, 1904-1954: A Study of the Voluntary Health Movement in the United States. Ayer Publishing, 1988

Literature (selection)

  • Ackerknecht, E. H .: In memoriam Richard H. Shryock. Clio Med 7 (1), 1972: 129-130.
  • Bell, WJ, Jr .: Richard Harrison Shryock, 1893-1972. Bull Hist Med 46 (5), 1972: 499-503.
  • Bell, WJ, Jr .: Memoir of Richard Harrison Shryock 1893-1972. Trans Stud Coll Physicians Phila 40 (3), 1973: 202-204.
  • Bell, WJ, Jr .: Richard H. Shryock: life and work of a historian. J Hist Med Allied Sci 29 (1), 1974: 15-31.
  • Curti, M .: The historical scholarship of Richard H. Shryock. J Hist Med Allied Sci 29 (1), 1974: 7-14.
  • Reingold, N .: Richard Harrison Shryock 1895-1972. Isis 64 (221) 1973: 96-100.
  • Risse, GB: Richard H. Shryock and the social history of medicine. Introduction. J Hist Med Allied Sci 29 (1), 1974: 4-6.
  • Rosen, G .: Richard Harrison Shryock (1893-1972). Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 24, 1974: 146–148.
  • Temkin, O : Professor Shryock's seventy-fifth birthday. Bull Hist Med 42 (2), 1968: 99-100.
  • Temkin, O .: Richard Harrison Shryock 1893-1972. J Hist Med Allied Sci 27 (2). 1972: 131-132.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marcel H. Bickel : Medical historian in the 19th and 20th centuries. A comparative biographical consideration. In: Andreas Frewer (Hrsg.), Volker Roelcke (Hrsg.): The institutionalization of medical historiography. Lines of development from the 19th to the 20th century. Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2001, p. 219 ISBN 978-3-515-07849-8 google books
  2. ↑ American Philosophical Society  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , No. 47: Shryock, Richard Harrison@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / opac.amphilsoc.org  
  3. ↑ Bell, WJ, Jr .: Richard H. Shryock: life and work of a historian. J Hist Med Allied Sci 29 (1), 1974: 15-31. Quoted from: Marcel H. Bickel: Medical historians in the 19th and 20th centuries. A comparative biographical consideration. In: Andreas Frewer (Hrsg.), Volker Roelcke (Hrsg.): The institutionalization of medical historiography. Lines of development from the 19th to the 20th century. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 219 ISBN 978-3-515-07849-8 google books
  4. ^ Member History: Richard Harrison Shryock. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 26, 2018 .
  5. ^ Entry in the membership directory of the Académie.
  6. ^ American Association for the History of Medicine , The Shryock Medal
  7. ↑ American Association for the History of Medicine , previous recipient of the Shryock Medal


personal data
SURNAME Shryock, Richard Harrison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1972