Background
Bearn, Alexander Gordon was born on March 29, 1923 in Surrey, England. Arrived in the United States, 1951. Son of Edward Gordon Bearn.
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In this scholarly and insightful biography, Alexander G. Bearn, a physician and a scientist in the Garrodian tradition, has drawn a portrait of one of the great minds of twentieth century medicine. It is story of intellectual achievement. But the book also gives a fascinating account of the life of a talented professional family and a perspective on the practice of medicine and on medical education at the turn of the century. Archibald Garrod is chiefly remembered as the originator of the concept of inborn metabolic error, an idea which grew from his studies of families with diseases whose biochemical basis he was able to identify. He was widely recognized for this achievement in his own lifetime and held a respected position in the medical establishment, a position accorded to him on the basis of his scientific achievement rather than for any great clinical skill. But to concentrate on the concept of inborn errors is to overlook what has in time turned out to be Garrod's greatest achievement, for it was he who first saw that genetics, biochemistry, and medicine are fundamentally linked. He propounded, to all who would listen, his thesis that disease can only be properly studied in the light of an individual's genetic susceptibility, and that that in turn rests on biochemical individuality. Only by thinking of human diseases as the consequences of genetic and environmental interaction are the advances of today's and tomorrow's medicine possible.
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Born in Edinburgh in 1885, Sir Francis Fraser helped revolutionise medical education and nurtured generations of researchers and practitioners in the wake of World War II, throughout which he directed the nation's Emergency Medical Services. In this concise, elegantly written and carefully researched biography, Alexander G. Bearn - himself a distinguished Professor of Medicine - surveys the career of this formidable and energetic Scotsman, bringing together a wealth of material from public and private archives and interviews with surviving relatives.
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Bearn, Alexander Gordon was born on March 29, 1923 in Surrey, England. Arrived in the United States, 1951. Son of Edward Gordon Bearn.
Student, Epsom College. Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Science, Guy's Hospital, University London, England, 1945. Doctor of Medicine, Guy's Hospital, University London, England, 1951.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University René Descartes, Paris, 1974. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Catholic University, Korea, 1968.
Associate Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller University, New York City, 1951—1957. Associate professor, physician Rockefeller University, 1957—1964, professor, senior physician, 1964—1966, adjunct professor, visiting physician, from 1966. Professor medicine Cornell University, 1966—1977, Stanton Griffis Distinguished medical professor, 1977—1979, chairman department, 1966—1977, professor medicine emeritus.
Physician-in-chief New York Hospital, 1966—1977. Senior vice president for medical and science affairs Merck, Sharp & Dohme International, Rahway, New Jersey, 1979—1988. Vice president American Philosophical Society, 1990—1996, executive officer, 1997—2002, executive officer emeritus, 2002—2009.
Distinguished visiting fellow Christ's College, Cambridge, England, 1996—1997, fellow commoner, 1997—2009. Member commission human resources National Academy of Sciences, 1974—1977. Chairman division medical science Assembly Life Sciences, 1978—1979.
Board science counselors National Institute Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases, 1976—1980. Member Space Science Board, 1978—1979. Consultant genetics training committee, division general medical science United States Public Health Service, 1961—1965, consultant genetics study section, 1966—1970.
Consultant Fogarty Center National Institutes of Health, 1991—1994. President Royal Society Medicine Foundation, Inc., 1976—1978. Board science overseers Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, 1969—1982.
Medical officer Royal Air Force, 1947-1949.
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Author: Archibald Garrod and the Individuality of Man, 1993, Sir Clifford Allbutt: Scholar and Physician, 2007, Sir Francis Richard Fraser: A Canny Scot Shapes British Medicine, 2008. Editor: American Jour Medicine, 1971-1977. Editor-in-chief:, 1977-1979.
Co-editor: Progress in Medical Genetics, 1962-1987. Associate editor: Cecil-Loeb Textbook of Medicine. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Trustee Rockefeller University, 1971—1998, trustee emeritus, 1998—2009. Trustee Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, 1970—1997, Macy Foundation, 1981—1998, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1987—2009. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal College Physicians (London), Royal College Physicians (Edinburgh, Scotland).
Member: Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (foreign associate), Medical Society London, Medical Research Society Great Britain, Association Physicians Great Britain and Ireland, Harveian Society London (council 1959), Harvey Society (president 1972-1973, Harvey lecturer 1975), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Society Biological Chemists, Genetics Society of America, American Society Human Genetics (president 1971), American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, American Philosophical Society (executive officer 1997—2002, vice president 1990-1996), Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, Century Association, Misquamicut Club (Watch Hill, Rhode Island), Knickerbocker Club, Philadelphia Club, Crail Golf Club (Scotland), Sigma Xi (president Rockefeller chapter 1962-1963).
Married Margaret Slocum, December 20, 1952. Children: Helen B. Pennoyer, Gordon Clarence Frederic.