Background
Winick, Myron was born on May 4, 1929 in New York City. Son of Charles B. and Ruth E. (Gesser) Winick.
(From February to the middle of July 1942 a remarkable stu...)
From February to the middle of July 1942 a remarkable study was carried out in the Warsaw ghetto, a study of starvation conducted by the Jewish physicians in the two largest hospitals in the ghetto. The results of this study have survived and become a cornerstone of the medical literature on the changes undergone by the human body when not enough food is available. What you are about to read is the story of that study-why it was done, how it was done, who carried it out, what was found, and how it survived.Everything about the study itself is true. Everything about the background of the physicians who took part in the study is as accurate as I could make it. The rest, what motivated them to do the study, how they got the equipment, and how they smuggled the manuscript out is fiction, but is consistent with what little information I had.Thus the story you are about to read is a historical novel in the truest sense. Together the fact and the fiction will give you, the reader, an understanding of an extraordinary scientific event that helped a people define itself during one of the saddest chapters of its existence.
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Winick, Myron was born on May 4, 1929 in New York City. Son of Charles B. and Ruth E. (Gesser) Winick.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1951; Master of Sciences, University Illinois, 1952; Doctor of Medicine State University of New York, 1956.
Intern, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1956-1957;
assistant resident pediatrics, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1957-1959;
chief resident, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1959-1960;
attending pediatrician, Stanford University Hospital, 1963-1964;
assistant professor pediatrics, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1964-1968;
associate professor pediatrics and nutrition, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1968-1970;
professor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1970-1971;
director Institute Human Nutrition, Columbia University Institute Human Nutrition, 1972-1987;
professor pediatrics, Columbia University Institute Human Nutrition, 1972-1989;
R.R. Williams professor nutrition, Columbia University Institute Human Nutrition, 1973-1989;
R.R. Williams professor emeritus, Columbia University Institute Human Nutrition, since 1990;
president, U. Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, 1990-1993;
director, Center for Nutrition, Genetics and Human Development, 1975-1987. Visiting professor pediatrics U. Chile, Santiago, 1967. Assistant attending pediatrician New York Hospital, New York City, 1964-1968, associate attending pediatrician, 1968-1970, attending pediatrician, 1970-1971.
Attending pediatrician Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1972-1989. Consultant Pan American Health Organisation, since 1966.
(From February to the middle of July 1942 a remarkable stu...)
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Trustee Foundation for International Child Health. Member nutrition interdisciplinary cluster President' biomedical Research Panel, 1975. Member panel on infants and children President' Commission on Mental Health, 1977.
Consultant Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, 1976-1978. Member Food and Nutrition Board National Research Council, 1982-1988. With United States Naval Reserve, 1960-1962.
Fellow Royal Society Health, American Society Nutritional Sciences, American Academy Pediatrics. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Cell Biology, Society Developmental Biology, Harvey Society, Society Pediatric Research, Royal Society Medicine, British Nutrition Society, American Society Clinical Nutrition, New York Academy of Sciences, New York Academy Medicine, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society for Neurosci., International Society for Development Neurosci., Cosmos Club.
Married Elaine L. Lasky, September 19, 1964. Children: Jonathan, Stephen.