Dr. Samuel Hellman's Critical Reads
Samuel Hellman, M.D., A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Hellman served as Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and Vice President for the Medical Center from July 1988 to June 1993. He was Physician-in-Chief of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases from 1983-1988. He concurrently held the Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Clinical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In addition, Dr. Hellman was Professor of Radiation Oncology at Cornell University Medical College from 1984-1988. Before joining Sloan-Kettering, Dr. Hellman served as Chairman of the Department of Radiation Therapy at the Harvard Medical School where he was the Alvin T. and Viola D. Fuller - American Cancer Society Professor. He was Director of the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at the Harvard Medical School. During the same period, he served simultaneously as chief or director of radiation therapy at a number of major hospitals in Boston. Dr. Hellman has been active in both clinical and laboratory investigation. He has been involved in studies of breast cancer, prostate cancer and lymphoma. The breast cancer studies are of conservative management and the natural history of regionally treated disease. Both of these studies emphasize the importance of understanding the clinical evolution of the disease in order to develop effective multidisciplinary therapy. His laboratory investigations centered on the cell kinetics of the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Dr. Hellman has written on the possible interference with the doctor-patient relationship by clinical research and managed care. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific articles in his field and co-editor of the standard textbook on cancer, Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, through the 7th edition.
Learning While Caring: Reflections on a Half-Century of Cancer Practice, Research and Ethics
The Doctor-Patient Relationship
The Caring Physician: The Life of Frances W. Peabody by Oglesby Paul.
The Silent World of Doctor and Patient by Jay Katz.
Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs by Leon R Kass.
Medical Research and Patient Care
Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military by Gerald Kutcher.
Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making by David J. Rothman.
The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade of Struggle for Social Justice by David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman.
Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine by Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William J. Winslade.
Cancer Patient Narratives
Why Me: What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer to Save Her Life by Rose Kushner.
The Climb of My Life by Laura Evans.
Heroes
Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie.
Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and Her World by Rosalynd Pflaum.
Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin 1798-1866 by Amalie M. Kass and Edward H. Kass.
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