Henry K Beecher

Biographic Data

ID5368557
NAMEHenry K Beecher
GIVEN NAMESHenry K
FAMILY NAMEBeecher
SIGNATUREBEECHER H K
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
H-INDEX0

  • The New Historiography of American Medical Education

    Daniel M Fox, Martin Kaufman et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1986

  • Medicine at Harvard: The First Three Hundred Years

    Gerald N Grob, Henry K Beecher et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1978

    Book Reviews with over a hundred prescriptions.It is the earliest extant medical text in Hebrew of European origin, and the earliest Italian medical text.Donnolo is said to have been concerned with the founding of Salerno, and wrote extensively and most im- portantly on cosmology.The latter established Donnolo as a Byzantine Jewish scholar, and this study of him and his world illuminates the culture and relations of Byzantine Jewry.It also provid…

  • Medicine at Harvard: The First Three Hundred Years

    John C Burnham, Henry K Beecher et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1978

    Journal Article Medicine at Harvard: The First Three Hundred Years. By Henry K. Beecher and Mark D. Altschule. (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1977. xiv + 587 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.50.) Get access John C. Burnham John C. Burnham Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 2, September 1978, Pages 444–445, https://do…

  • Physical Manipulation of the Brain

    Henry K Beecher, Edgar A Bering et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1973

    Henry K. Beecher, Edgar A. Bering, Jr., Donald T. Chalkley, José M. R. Delgado, Vernon H. Mark, Karl H. Pribram, Gardner C. Quarton, Theodore B. Rasmussen, William Beecher Scoville, William H. Sweet, Daniel Callahan, K. Danner Clouser, Harold Edgar, Rudolph Ehrensing, James R. Gavin, III, Willard Gaylin, Bruce Hilton, Perry London, Robert Michels, Robert Neville, Ann Orlov, Herbert G. Vaughan, Jr., Paul Weiss, Physical Manipulation of the Brain, …

  • Response to the Ingersoll Lecture by a Physician

    Open AccessHenry K BeecherARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1969

    Dr. Pahnke's field of interest, just described, is of very great importance. I can say this even though he and I might have some differences as to methodology. Questions must be asked in terms in which they can be answered. Thus Dr. Pahnke has sketched for us a new and promising approach to problems in an old field, and I am with him all the way in this interest

  • Ethics and Clinical Research

    Henry K BeecherARTICLENew England Journal of Medicine1966

    HUMAN experimentation since World War II has created some difficult problems with the increasing employment of patients as experimental subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses that would be made of them. Evidence is at hand that many of the patients in the examples to follow never had the risk satisfactorily explained to them, and it seems obvious that further hundreds hav…

  • The Powerful Placebo

    Henry K BeecherARTICLEJournal of the American Medical…1955

    Placebos have doubtless been used for centuries by wise physicians as well as by quacks, but it is only recently that recognition of an enquiring kind has been given the clinical circumstance where the use of this tool is essential "... to distinguish pharmacological effects from the effects of suggestion, and... to obtain an unbiased assessment of the result of experiment." It is interesting that Pepper could say as recently as 10 years ago "app…

  • Some New Letters of Horace Wells Concerning an Historic Partnership

    Henry K Beecher, CHARLOTTE FORDARTICLEJournal of the History of…1954

    HENRY K. BEECHER, CHARLOTTE FORD; Some New Letters of Horace Wells Concerning an Historic Partnership, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Scienc