The Authors

Meyer Friedman is a founder of the San Francisco-based Meyer Friedman Institute, a nonprofit research group. Gerald W. Friedland is a professor emeritus of radiology at Stanford University. Friedman and Friedland are coauthors of Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries, recently published by Yale University Press.

For further reading:
Fisher, Richard B. Edward Jenner, 1749-1823. Andre Deutsch, 1991.
Fradin, Dennis Brindell. “We Have Conquered Pain:” The Discovery of Anesthesia. Margaret McElderry, 1996.
Friedman, Meyer, and Gerald W. Friedland. Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries. Yale University Press, 1998.
Judson, Horace Freeland. The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology. Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Kevles, Bettyann Holtzmann. Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century. Rutgers University Press, 1996.
O'Malley, C. D. Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564. University of California Press, 1964.
Porter, Roy. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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