William F. Norwood

By WILLIAM F. NORWOOD, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Cultural Medicine, C.M.E.

Articles by William F. Norwood

Moses, the First Sanitarian

December 1941

When Moses submitted to God's plan for him to lead the trek of a million and a half slaves from Egypt to Palestine, he must have been aware of some of the public-health and hygiene problems involved. Had he known…

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The Religio-Medical Liaison—No. 1

July 1945

The study of history is not a luxury ; it is a spiritual and intellectual necessity. Knowl­edge of past events constitutes a driving force in the lives of all of us. Indeed, history enables individuals, organizations,…

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Medicine and the Changing World*

July 1946

The noted Dr. Benjamin Rush, the best-known Philadelphia physician of his day, pompously declared in 1789 that he found all schemes bf physic (medicine) faulty, and that he was…

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"Let This Mind. .." (Concluded)

June 1947

The predicament of modern man, which thinking people everywhere lament but seem impotent to remedy in any very effective man­ner, is often charged to the prevailing intoler­ance of men and nations. In passing it…

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"Let This Mind Be in You ... "

May 1947

Long before the advent of scientific medi­cine, when the healing art was struggling to discard its primitive swaddling clothes, there arose in the Hellenic world a physician, Hippocrates by name, who profoundly…

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