Lester S King
Biographic Data
| ID | 378687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lester S King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lester S |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2552-0614 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beliefs About the Development of Mental Life
Caregiving relationships with infants and children are among the most common and most complex human social interactions. Adults’ perceptions of children’s mental capacities have important consequences for the well-being of children in their care—particularly in the first few years of life, when children’s communication skills are limited and caregivers must infer children’s rapidly developing thoughts, feelings, and needs. In a series of studies,…
Enhancing caregiver sensitivity: Efficacy of a single-session, video-based training for new parents
Caregiving interventions are typically personalized and time intensive, creating barriers to access and use. To address these limitations, in a preregistered study of 120 first-time parents (93 mothers, 27 fathers) of 4- to 6-month-old infants, we tested the impact of a standardized, interactive, single-session video-based intervention (Teach by Example). Participants in the intervention condition (N = 60) were asked to view caregiver-child inter…
Large‐scale proteomics in the first trimester of pregnancy predict psychopathology and temperament in preschool children: An exploratory study
BACKGROUND: Understanding the prenatal origins of children's psychopathology is a fundamental goal in developmental and clinical science. Recent research suggests that inflammation during pregnancy can trigger a cascade of fetal programming changes that contribute to vulnerability for the emergence of psychopathology. Most studies, however, have focused on a handful of proinflammatory cytokines and have not explored a range of prenatal biological…
Digital methods of social science in food regulation: Case studies from the Food Standards Agency
The use of digital methods in social research has increased significantly, offering some benefits over traditional research methods, and some new challenges. The UK Food Standards Agency’s social science provides several case studies of how digital methods can be effectively utilized in practice. The agency has adopted various digital methods including web push surveys, online panels, online deliberative dialogue and citizen science platforms to …
Teaching or learning from baby: Inducing explicit parenting goals influences caregiver intrusiveness
Caregivers' goals influence their interactions with their children. In this preregistered study, we examined whether directing parents to teach their baby versus learn from their baby influenced the extent to which they engaged in intrusive (e.g., controlling, adult-centered rather than child-centered), sensitive, warm, or cognitively stimulating caregiving behaviors. Mothers and their 6-month-old infants ( N = 66; 32 female infants) from the San…
Correlates and predictors of the severity of suicidal ideation in adolescence: An examination of brain connectomics and psychosocial characteristics
BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation (SI) typically emerges during adolescence but is challenging to predict. Given the potentially lethal consequences of SI, it is important to identify neurobiological and psychosocial variables explaining the severity of SI in adolescents. METHODS: In 106 participants (59 female) recruited from the community, we assessed psychosocial characteristics and obtained resting-state fMRI data in early adolescence (baseline: …
Infants who experience more adult‐initiated conversations have better expressive language in toddlerhood
To understand how infants become engaged in conversations with their caregivers, we examined who tends to initiate conversations between adults and infants, differences between the features of infant‐ and adult‐initiated conversations, and whether individual differences in how much infants engage in infant‐ or adult‐initiated conversations uniquely predict later language development. We analyzed naturalistic adult–infant conversations captured vi…
Introducing Food and You 2: Exploring consumer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours relating to food safety
Caregiver regulation: A modifiable target promoting resilience to early adverse experiences
This framework may be useful for guiding the priority of treatments, as well as making clear the needed menu of options to support children following adversity, in addressing specific concerns related to ensuring effective caregiver regulation to promote resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Breastfeeding Difficulties Predict Mothers’ Bonding with Their Infants from Birth to Age Six Months
Attachment Security in Pregnancy Mediates the Association Between Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Offspring
The neglect–enrichment continuum: Characterizing variation in early caregiving environments
Three-year longitudinal study of perceptions of competence and well-being among youth exposed to disasters
This article examines perceptions of competence/well-being over time and linkages to exposure to natural disaster experiences and stress associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in youth. A multi-wave naturalistic design was used to follow N = 3,399 students, ages 8–18 years who were evaluated for perceptions of competence/well-being, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, hurricane exposure experiences, and stress related to the o…
Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler
Journal Article Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler. By Lester S. King. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. viii + 268 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-4057-0.) Get access Transformations in American Medicine: From Benjamin Rush to William Osler. By King Lester S.. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. viii + 268 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-4057-0.) Guenter B. Risse Guenter B. Risse University of…
Die inneren Verbindungen zwischen Philosophie und Medizin im 20. Jahrhundert . Dietrich von Engelhardt , Heinrich Schipperges
A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine . John B. Blake
The Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century
Cholera, Fever and English Medicine 1825-1865 . Margaret Pelling
Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century
Medical Logic
Journal Article Medical Logic Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING American Medical AssociationChicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3, July 1978, Pages 377–385, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXIII.3.377 Published: 01 July 1978
Achilles Pirmin Gasser 1505-1577. Arzt und Naturforscher, Historiker und Humanist. Volume III: Briefwechsel . Karl Heinz Burmeister
The Emergence of Science in Western Europe
Genius manifests itself in varied ways under varied circumstances. Often a cluster of individuals, working in a limited area in a limited period of time, can bring about great progress in one or another branch of science. Eventually the forward momentum seems to falter, and then leadership passes elsewhere. In this new book, edited by Professor Crosland, each of ten authorities describes the progress in one particular locus during a limited time …
American Physicians in the 19th Century: From Sects to Science . William G. Rothstein
Treatise of Man. René Descartes , Thomas Steele Hall
Chronicle from Aldgate: Life and Death in Shakespeare's London. Thomas Rogers Forbes
What is disease
Biological science does not try to distinguish between health and disease. Biology is concerned with the interaction between living organisms and their environment. What we call health or disease is quite irrelevant. These reactions between the individual and his environment are complex. The individual and his surroundings form an integrated system which we can arbitrarily divide into two parts. There is an “external” component, by which we mean …
Cholera, Fever and English Medicine 1825-1865 . Margaret Pelling
A History of Medicine: Selected Readings
Stahl and Hoffmann: A Study in Eighteenth Century Animism
Stahl and Hoffmann: A Study in Eighteenth Century Animism Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING **Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XIX, Issue 2, April 1964, Pages 118–130, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XIX.2.118 Published: 01 April 1964
Hippocrates and Philosophy
Journal Article Hippocrates and Philosophy Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, January 1963, Pages 77–78, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XVIII.1.77 Published: 01 January 1963
Dr. Koch's Postulates
Dr. Koch's Postulates Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING *Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume VII, Issue 4, Autumn 1952, Pages 350–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/VII.4.350 Published: 01 October 1952
Is medicine an Exact Science
It is an interesting paradox that on the one hand intemperate enthusiasm greets new medical discoveries. On the other hand, the lack of science in medicine is paraded from time to time, usually as a matter of apologetics, as, when a physician wishes to excuse an error, a lawyer to discredit a physician, or a jury to render a verdict contrary to medical evidence. Philosophers who insist on the mathematical or quantitative aspects in any definition…
Dr. Koch's Postulates
Dr. Koch's Postulates Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING *Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume VII, Issue 4, Autumn 1952, Pages 350–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/VII.4.350 Published: 01 October 1952
What is disease
Biological science does not try to distinguish between health and disease. Biology is concerned with the interaction between living organisms and their environment. What we call health or disease is quite irrelevant. These reactions between the individual and his environment are complex. The individual and his surroundings form an integrated system which we can arbitrarily divide into two parts. There is an “external” component, by which we mean …
Plato's Concepts of Medicine
Journal Article Plato's Concepts of Medicine Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING *Pathology Department, Illinois Masonic Hospital AssociationChicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume IX, Issue 1, January 1954, Pages 38–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/IX.1.38 Published: 01 January 1954
The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century
Books Reviews
Journal Article Books Reviews Get access ESMOND R. LONG. Selected Readings in Pathology. 2d ed. Springfield, Illinois, Charles C Thomas, 1961. ix, 306 pp., 25 illus. $8.50. LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XVII, Iss…
Rationalism in Early Eighteenth Century Medicine
Rationalism in Early Eighteenth Century Medicine Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING **University of Illinois College of MedicineChicago, Illinois. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, July 1963, Pages 257–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XVIII.3.257 Published: 01 July 1963
Hippocrates and Philosophy
Journal Article Hippocrates and Philosophy Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, January 1963, Pages 77–78, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XVIII.1.77 Published: 01 January 1963
A Note on So-Called “Moral Treatment”
Journal Article A Note on So-Called “Moral Treatment” Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XIX, Issue 3, July 1964, Pages 297–298, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XIX.3.297 Published: 01 July 1964
Stahl and Hoffmann: A Study in Eighteenth Century Animism
Stahl and Hoffmann: A Study in Eighteenth Century Animism Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING **Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XIX, Issue 2, April 1964, Pages 118–130, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XIX.2.118 Published: 01 April 1964
The Emergence of Modern Nursing . Bonnie Bullough , Vern L. Bullough
The Medical Practitioners in Medieval England: A Biographical Register
Most new books become rapidly outdated. It is indeed refreshing to welcome a new work of tremendous scholarship that will immediately assume a definitive position in the learned world, and will maintain that position for a long time to come. What was medicine like in the Middle Ages? Professors Talbot and Hammond, who began to investigate the problem independently but later joined forces, have published a scholarly and at the same time fascinatin…
The Growth of Medical Thought
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Growth of Medical Thought. BY Lester S. King. (Chicago & London : University of Chicago Press. 1963. Pp. xii + 254. Price 41s). Donald Emslie-Smith Donald Emslie-Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 62, January 1966, Pages 87–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217901 Published: 01 January 1966
Description of Another Dreadful and Unusual Disease Drawn up by Hermann Boerhaave
MARIA WILKINS SMITH, LESTER S. KING; Description of Another Dreadful and Unusual Disease Drawn up by Hermann Boerhaave, Journal of the History of Medicine
Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West
Joseph Needham, in addition to his other accomplishments, is the outstanding western scholar in the history of science and technology of China. In this field he has published a mammoth multi-volume text that is the definitive work in its field. While he was devoting most of his time to this major project, he had delivered many lectures and occasional papers on the subjects of Chinese science, technology, and medical history. The present volume co…
George III and the Mad-Business. Ida Macalpine , Richard Hunter
Achilles Pirmin Gasser, 1505-1577: Arzt und Naturforscher, Historiker und Humanist. Karl Heinz Burmeister
Chronicle from Aldgate: Life and Death in Shakespeare's London. Thomas Rogers Forbes
A History of Medicine: Selected Readings
American Physicians in the 19th Century: From Sects to Science . William G. Rothstein
Treatise of Man. René Descartes , Thomas Steele Hall
The Emergence of Science in Western Europe
Genius manifests itself in varied ways under varied circumstances. Often a cluster of individuals, working in a limited area in a limited period of time, can bring about great progress in one or another branch of science. Eventually the forward momentum seems to falter, and then leadership passes elsewhere. In this new book, edited by Professor Crosland, each of ten authorities describes the progress in one particular locus during a limited time …
Achilles Pirmin Gasser 1505-1577. Arzt und Naturforscher, Historiker und Humanist. Volume III: Briefwechsel . Karl Heinz Burmeister
Philosophy of Medicine: The Early Eighteenth Century
Medical Logic
Journal Article Medical Logic Get access LESTER S. KING LESTER S. KING American Medical AssociationChicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3, July 1978, Pages 377–385, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXIII.3.377 Published: 01 July 1978
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