WILLIAM H HELFAND
Biographic Data
| ID | 5532423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | WILLIAM H HELFAND |
| GIVEN NAMES | WILLIAM H |
| FAMILY NAME | HELFAND |
| SIGNATURE | HELFAND W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | William H. Helfand is a consultant based in New York, NY. Jan Lazarus and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art
Shortly after he joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine in 1926, Clements C. Fry (1892-1955) began to collect prints and drawings on medical themes. A psychiatrist, his early interest was in images of mental disorders, insanity, treatment of the insane, phrenology, hypnotism, mesmerism, and quackery—but as occurs with many collectors, his scope broadened over time and eventually comprised the entire nondidactic historical ic…
Bodies Politic
In earlier books, the late Roy Porter has reviewed the British medical world of the long eighteenth century: the relations of patients with their physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, specialists, quacks, and other members of the medical fringe; the social position of these practitioners; concepts of illness, disease, and death; and [End Page 822] the varieties of therapeutic procedures. Now he has returned once more to this period, enlarging it to…
Saudi Nutrition Education for Pregnant Women, 1988
THIS POSTER, ORIGINALLY printed in bright colors, was produced by the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides guidance about good nutrition for expectant women. The woman pictured is asked to turn her back on a list of less healthy food choices, such as bread, rice, sweets, coffee, and tea, and she is warned against taking drugs without consulting her physician, consuming alcoholic b…
So That Others May Walk”
STRICKEN WITH POLIO IN 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his remarkable political skills to work on behalf of other polio victims to develop a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1928, the demands of his campaign to become governor of New York led him to transfer leadership of the rehabilitation center development to his law partner, Basil O'Connor. O'Connor made Warm Springs a nonprofit foundation, created the N…
Night Shift in a Glass Factory
THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILD labor, a practice still evident in this country and common in many parts of the world, was once rampant in the United States. As captured in this photograph by John Spargo (1876– 1966), published in his The Bitter Cry of the Children (New York: Macmillan Co; 1906), children—who should have been in bed resting before the next day at school—often toiled through the night. The 1870 US census recorded 750 000 workers younger…
Medicine Ave
Pharmaceutical advertising in the United States began in 1708 with the publication of a notice in the Boston News-Letter for Daffy's Elixir Salutis, a treatment for a variety of ailments offered at the fairly stiff price of four shillings six pence for a half-pint bottle. Promotional expenditures grew remarkably over the next two hundred years, primarily for proprietary medicines whose names and virtues appeared not only in newspapers and magazin…
Picturing Health and Illness
Reviewed by: Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference William H. Helfand Sander L. Gilman. Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 200 pp. Ill. $29.95. Sander Gilman has ably demonstrated the close relationship between visual images and cultural attitudes toward mental and somatic illness. In earlier works—The Face of Madness (1976), Seeing the Insane…
Drugs and Pharmacy in Prints at Toronto
Journal Article Drugs and Pharmacy in Prints at Toronto Get access WILLIAM H. HELFAND WILLIAM H. HELFAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXII, Issue 4, October 1967, Pages 418-a–418, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXII.4.418-a Published: 01 October 1967
So That Others May Walk”
STRICKEN WITH POLIO IN 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his remarkable political skills to work on behalf of other polio victims to develop a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1928, the demands of his campaign to become governor of New York led him to transfer leadership of the rehabilitation center development to his law partner, Basil O'Connor. O'Connor made Warm Springs a nonprofit foundation, created the N…
Drugs and Pharmacy in Prints at Toronto
Journal Article Drugs and Pharmacy in Prints at Toronto Get access WILLIAM H. HELFAND WILLIAM H. HELFAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXII, Issue 4, October 1967, Pages 418-a–418, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXII.4.418-a Published: 01 October 1967
Picturing Health and Illness
Reviewed by: Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference William H. Helfand Sander L. Gilman. Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 200 pp. Ill. $29.95. Sander Gilman has ably demonstrated the close relationship between visual images and cultural attitudes toward mental and somatic illness. In earlier works—The Face of Madness (1976), Seeing the Insane…
Medicine Ave
Pharmaceutical advertising in the United States began in 1708 with the publication of a notice in the Boston News-Letter for Daffy's Elixir Salutis, a treatment for a variety of ailments offered at the fairly stiff price of four shillings six pence for a half-pint bottle. Promotional expenditures grew remarkably over the next two hundred years, primarily for proprietary medicines whose names and virtues appeared not only in newspapers and magazin…
Saudi Nutrition Education for Pregnant Women, 1988
THIS POSTER, ORIGINALLY printed in bright colors, was produced by the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides guidance about good nutrition for expectant women. The woman pictured is asked to turn her back on a list of less healthy food choices, such as bread, rice, sweets, coffee, and tea, and she is warned against taking drugs without consulting her physician, consuming alcoholic b…
So That Others May Walk”
STRICKEN WITH POLIO IN 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his remarkable political skills to work on behalf of other polio victims to develop a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1928, the demands of his campaign to become governor of New York led him to transfer leadership of the rehabilitation center development to his law partner, Basil O'Connor. O'Connor made Warm Springs a nonprofit foundation, created the N…
Night Shift in a Glass Factory
THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILD labor, a practice still evident in this country and common in many parts of the world, was once rampant in the United States. As captured in this photograph by John Spargo (1876– 1966), published in his The Bitter Cry of the Children (New York: Macmillan Co; 1906), children—who should have been in bed resting before the next day at school—often toiled through the night. The 1870 US census recorded 750 000 workers younger…
Bodies Politic
In earlier books, the late Roy Porter has reviewed the British medical world of the long eighteenth century: the relations of patients with their physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, specialists, quacks, and other members of the medical fringe; the social position of these practitioners; concepts of illness, disease, and death; and [End Page 822] the varieties of therapeutic procedures. Now he has returned once more to this period, enlarging it to…
Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art
Shortly after he joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine in 1926, Clements C. Fry (1892-1955) began to collect prints and drawings on medical themes. A psychiatrist, his early interest was in images of mental disorders, insanity, treatment of the insane, phrenology, hypnotism, mesmerism, and quackery—but as occurs with many collectors, his scope broadened over time and eventually comprised the entire nondidactic historical ic…
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