Famous Persons

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A boy (a bleeder) and a bloody revolution. 
  • A groundless hypothesis, megaloblastic madness, and the founding of Duke University. 
  • A medical history of Governor John B. Connally and his gunshot wounds. 
  • An accountability evaluation for the industry's responsible use of brand mascots and licensed media characters to market a healthy diet to American children. 
  • Circumstances influencing Otto Loewi's discovery of chemical transmission in the nervous system. 
  • Did James A. Garfield die of cholecystitis? Revisiting the autopsy of the 20th president of the United States. 
  • Heroic Measures for an American Hero: Attempting to Save the Life of General Douglas MacArthur. 
  • Hubris syndrome: an acquired personality disorder? A study of US Presidents and UK Prime Ministers over the last 100 years. 
  • Medical origins of Duke University? 
  • North Carolina medical curiosities. 
  • Osler and Ernulf's curse. 
  • Phlebitis, pulmonary emboli and presidential politics: Richard M. Nixon's complicated deep vein thrombosis. 
  • Predicting national suicide numbers with social media data. 
  • President Eisenhower's bowel obstruction: the story of his surgeons and their decision to operate. 
  • Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919): Psychiatric hospitalization and the abduction of an American landscape artist. 
  • Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). 
  • The President's gallbladder: a historical account of the cholecystectomy of Lyndon Baines Johnson. 
  • The cult of Franz Boas and his "conspiracy" to destroy the white race. 
  • The fatal disease of Emperor Galerius. 
  • The impairment of Presidents Pierce and Coolidge after traumatic bereavement. 
  • The life, times, and health care of Harry L Hopkins: Presidential advisor and perpetual patient. 
  • Transmissibility of the Ice Bucket Challenge among globally influential celebrities: retrospective cohort study. 
  • What or who killed Alexander the Great?