Doctor John Parascandola is an American medical historian.
Education
Parascandola received his Bachelor"s Degree in Chemistry from Brooklyn College before receiving his Master"s Degree in Biochemistry and his Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Science in 1968 at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Parascandola did post-doctoral work at Harvard University.
Career
He has written numerous books, including The Development of American Pharmacology: John Jay Abel and the Shaping of a Discipline, and held the position of Public Health Service Historian. Parascandola"s career began in 1974 as Director of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, where he remained until 1981. In 1983, Parascandola became Chief of the History of Medicine Division of the United States National Library of Medicine.
In 1992, he became Public Health Service Historian, which he held until his retirement in 2004.
He has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and currently teaches at the University of Maryland. and Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America, which was released in 2008.