Background
Fishbein, Morris was born on July 22, 1889 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Benjamin and Fanny (Gluck) Fishbein.
Fishbein, Morris was born on July 22, 1889 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Benjamin and Fanny (Gluck) Fishbein.
Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1910. Doctor of Medicine Rush Medical College, 1912. Doctorate. Pharmacy (honorary), Rutgers University, 1942.
Honorary Doctor of Laws, Florida Southern College, 1957.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Chicago Medical School, 1965.
July 22, 1889 – September 27, 1976) was a physician who became the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (Journal of the American Medical Association) from 1924 to 1950. In 1961 he became the founding Editor of Medical World News, a magazine for doctors. In 1970 he endowed the Morris Fishbein Center.
He was also notable for exposing quacks, notably the goat-gland surgeon John R. Brinkley, and campaigning for regulation of medical devices.
Fishbein served for 18 months as a resident physician at the Durand Hospital for Infectious Diseases. He joined George H. Simmons, editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association (Journal of the American Medical Association), as an assistant and advanced to the editorship in 1924, a position he maintained until 1950.
He was on the cover of TIME on June 21, 1937. In 1938, along with the American Medical Association, he was indicted for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Acting.
The American Medical Association was convicted and fined $2,500 but Fishbein was acquitted.
In 1961 he became the founding Editor of Medical World News, a magazine for doctors. In 1970 he endowed the Morris Fishbein Center for the study of the history of science and medicine at the University of Chicago. Its first activity was a lecture series taking place in May of that year.
Allen G. Debus served as director of the Center from 1971 to 1977.
Fishbein also endowed a chair at the university for the same subject, a chair taken up by Debus in 1978. The 7th floor in Shoreland Hall at the University of Chicago was known as Fishbein House, using the Fishbein name as its namesake.
He died on September 27, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois.
Fellow in pathology Rush Medical College, 1912. Member chief board editors Excerpta Medica, 1949-1971. Member several professional, advertising committees and organizations
Fellow American Public Health Association.
Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Delta Epsilon, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Delta Chirurgical Clubs: Variety, Lotos, Chicago Literary, Quadrangle, The Tavern, Standard, Arts.
Married Anna Mantel, July 7, 1914. Children: Barbara Fishbein Friedell, Morris (deceased), Marjorie Fishbein Clavey, Justin Mantel.