Henry sigerist biography

Swiss medical historian (1891–1957)

Henry Ernest Sigerist (7 April 1891 – 17 March 1957) was a Swiss medical historian and proponent of universal health care.^[1]

Career

After graduating with an M.D.

at the University of Zurich in 1917, Sigerist devoted himself to the study of the history of medicine. Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union (1937), and History of Medicine were among his most important works.

He emerged as a major spokesman for "compulsory health insurance".

Henry Ernest Sigerist | RCP Museum - RCP London

From 1932 to 1947 he was director at the Johns Hopkins University Institute of History of Medicine.^[1] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1945 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1951.^[2][3] He received financial aid from the Rockefeller Institute.

He attacked the American Medical Association because of its conflicting views on socialized medicine. Dr. Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized m