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Franz Gabriel Alexander, 73, Hungarian-born psychoanalyst, pioneered psychosomatic medicine in the United States, 8 March 1964.
W. Wayne Babcock, 90, physician, involved in the development of spinal anesthesia and introduced a variety of surgical techniques including the use of steel-wire sutures, 23 February 1963.
Louis Hopewell Bauer, 75, cardiologist, pioneered aviation medicine and served as secretary-general of the World Medical Association (1948-1961), 2 February 1964.
Alfred Blalock, 65, surgeon in chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital, codeveloped blue-baby surgery as well as the hand-pump cardiac-resuscitation method, 15 September 1964.
Paul Earle Carlson, 36, missionary doctor, killed by Congolese rebels in Stanleyville, Congo, 24 November 1964.
Frank P. Corrigan, 86, surgeon, diplomat, and first U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, helped prove the feasibility of...
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1960's Medicine and Health
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Care Questioned
- A Changing Tradition
- Foreign Doctors
- Government Health Programs
- Heart Surgery: the Artificial Heart
- Heart Surgery: Coronary Artery Bypasses
- Heart Surgery: Endarterectomy
- Heart Surgery: Resuscitation
- New Methods: Cryosurgery
- New Methods: Home Dialysis
- New Methods: Portable Ekg
- Organ Transplants and Limb Reimplantation
- The Polio Sugar Cube
- "Routine Illness": Measles
- The Rubella Epidemic
- Sex in the 1960s: Abortion
- Sex in the 1960s: Artificial Insemination
- Sex in the 1960s: The Birth-Control Pill
- Sex in the 1960s: Fertility Drugs
- Sex in the 1960s: Giving Birth
- Sex in the 1960s: Lippes Loop
- Sex in the 1960s: The Male Pill
- Solid Proof: Cancer Spreads
- Smoking and Cancer
- Sugar Substitutes
- Thalidomide: Global Tragedy
- Triparanol and Chloramphenicol
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Medicine and Health, 1960–1969
