| CONTENTS
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| Foreword (Howard Dean, MD)
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| Acknowledgements (David K.C. Cooper)
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| Table of Contents
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| List of Illustrations
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| Introduction (David K.C. Cooper)
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Chapter 1
| St. Luke (1st century AD) –– The Most Widely-Read Physician (T. Jock Murray)
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Chapter 2
| Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) –– Physician of the Soul (James E. Bailey)
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Chapter 3
| Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) –– Celestial Physician (Michael E. Moran)
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Chapter 4
| John Locke (1632–1704) –– Philosopher and Political Theorist (Barry Silverman)
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Chapter 5
| Hans Sloane (1660–1753) –– The Ultimate Collector (Paul Berman)
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Chapter 6
| Thomas Dover (1660–1742) –– Buccaneer on the High Seas (David K.C. Cooper)
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Chapter 7
| Physician Patriots –– The Doctors Who Signed the American Declaration of Independence: Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), Lyman Hall (1724–1790), Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), Matthew Thornton (1714–1803), Oliver Wolcott (1726–1797) (James R. Johnston)
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Chapter 8
| Mungo Park (1771–1806) –– Explorer of West Africa (Robert P. Turk)
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Chapter 9
| Thomas Young (1773–1829) –– The Smartest Person Ever? (Michael E. Moran)
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Chapter 10
| Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869) –– And His Thesaurus (T. Jock Murray)
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Chapter 11
| John Keats (1795–1821) –– Romantic Poet (Joseph B. VanderVeer Jr.)
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Chapter 12
| Abraham Gesner (1797–1864) –– Father of the Petroleum Industry (T. Jock Murray)
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Chapter 13
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) –– Writer and Philosopher (Charles S. Bryan)
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Chapter 14
| David Livingstone (1813–1873) –– Explorer of Africa (Mabel L. Purkerson)
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Chapter 15
| Alexander Borodin (1834–1887) –– Russian Composer (Paul Berman)
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Chapter 16
| William Chester Minor (1834–1920) –– Murderer and Maestro of Words (Clyde Partin)
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Chapter 17
| John Henry “Doc” Holliday (1851–1887) –– Tombstone Legend (Sandra W. Moss)
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Chapter 18
| John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) –– Of Cereal Fame (J. Gordon Frierson)
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Chapter 19
| Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) –– Creator of Sherlock Holmes (James G. Ravin)
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Chapter 20
| Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) –– Russian Writer (Joseph B. VanderVeer Jr.)
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Chapter 21
| Leonard Wood (1860–1927) –– Controversial Military Leader (J. Gordon Frierson and Daniel Morgan)
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Chapter 22
| Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) –– Reformer and Revolutionary (J. Gordon Frierson)
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Chapter 23
| Edward Wilson (1872–1912) –– Antarctic Explorer, Painter, and Naturalist (Jessie L. Ternberg)
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Chapter 24
| W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) –– Teller of Tales (Angela Nicholls)
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Chapter 25
| Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) –– Organist, Theologian, and Nobel Laureate (J. Michael Fuller)
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Chapter 26
| Archibald Joseph (A. J.) Cronin (1896–1981) –– Best-selling Novelist (Peter E. Dans)
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Chapter 27
| Jules Stein (1896–1981) –– Visionary Extraordinaire (Rob H. Stone and Marvin J. Stone)
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Chapter 28
| Armand Hammer (1898–1990) –– Businessman Extraordinaire (David K.C. Cooper)
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Chapter 29
| Henry Stallard (1901–1973) –– The 1924 Paris Olympics and Chariots of Fire (John D. Bullock)
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Chapter 30
| Boyd Neel (1905–1981) –– Medicine or Music? (C. Peter W. Warren)
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Chapter 31
| Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928–1967) –– Iconic Revolutionary (Amy L. Cooper)
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Chapter 32
| Roger Bannister (1929– ) –– The Four-minute Mile (David K.C. Cooper)
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Chapter 33
| Graham Chapman (1941–1989) –– From Medicine to Monty Python (David Cooper)
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Chapter 34
| Abraham Verghese (1955– ) –– His Own Countries, His Own Profession (Joseph W. Lella)
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Chapter 35
| Khaled Hosseini (1965– ) –– Novelist and Humanitarian (Joseph W. Lella)
Medical students who did not complete their studies
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Chapter 36
| Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) –– Polar Explorer (J. Michael Fuller)
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Chapter 37
| Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler (1875–1962) –– Violinist and Composer (J. Michael Fuller)
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Chapter 38
| Lu Xun (1881–1936) –– The Pen Is Mightier Than the Scalpel (C. Peter W. Warren)
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Appendix 1
| Who Could Have Been Chosen? (David K.C. Cooper)
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Appendix 2
| Selected Physicians from Thomas Monro’s Collection of More Than Five- hundred Who Were Noted for Their Achievements Outside of Medicine (David K.C. Cooper)
About the Contributors
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