Home›Healers›All HealersBrowse ByAll HealersReference and ClassificationVerifiedThis category is the top-level index for the atlas's Healer entities: the individual physicians, surgeons, nurses and traditional healing practitioners profiled for their contributions to medicine, whether through a specific discovery, a body of clinical work or the practice of a traditional healing system. Each entry covers a specific individual rather than a condition, a treatment or an institution, which are filed under their own respective types elsewhere in the atlas.FactsAll HealersConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonUses International ClassificationWell-attestedISCO-08 (International Standard Classification of Occupations) 1All HealersFilter Results1,277 entriesHealing TraditionAllAcupuncturists and Acupuncture Researchers (8)African Traditional Healers (4)Anatomists and Physiologists of Antiquity and the Renaissance (7)Anesthesiologists and Perioperative Care Pioneers (8)Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine (32)Cardiac, Vascular and Transplant Surgeons (42)Cellular and Disease Pathologists (33)Clinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (87)Dentists and Pioneers of Dental Anesthesia (5)Epidemiology and Tropical Disease Control Pioneers (7)Experimental Pathologists and Chemotherapy Pioneers (3)Founders of Antisepsis and Modern Operative Surgery (57)Founders of Modern Nursing and Battlefield Care (6)Fringe and Alternative Medicine Founders (42)HIV and Modern Infectious Disease Leaders (4)Hormone, Vitamin and Drug Discoverers (15)Hydrotherapy and Physical Culture (27)Imaging, Radiation and Monitoring Instrument Inventors (13)Immunology and Transplantation Scientists (16)Indigenous American and Pacific Healing Traditions (2)Maternal, Child Health and Blood Service Founders (3)Midwifery, Reproductive Science and Hospice Care Pioneers (6)Military, Public Health and Reform Surgeons (67)Molecular Biologists and Geneticists (17)Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders (39)Neurologists and Biological Psychiatry Pioneers (47)Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints (68)Obstetricians and Gynecologic Surgeons (21)Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders (10)Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors (10)Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance (31)Physiologists, Anatomists and Natural Historians of Medicine (154)Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians (16)Pioneers of Bacteriology and Parasitology (28)Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists and Humanistic Pioneers (14)Reproductive Technology Inventors (2)Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders (11)Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe (35)Traditional Chinese and East Asian Medicine (20)Unani and Islamic Traditional Medicine (10)Unorthodox and Anthroposophic Physicians (16)Vaccine and Antibiotic Developers (7)Specialist InAllAnatomy (46)Anesthesiology (6)Ayurveda (6)Cardiology (7)Cardiothoracic Surgery (31)Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2)Critical Care Medicine (1)Dermatology (12)Endocrinology (7)Epidemiology (7)Family Medicine (9)Gastroenterology (1)Genetics (2)Geriatrics (1)Hematology (4)Histology (5)Homeopathy (2)Hospice and Palliative Medicine (1)Immunology (10)Infectious Disease (17)Internal Medicine (34)Interventional Radiology (1)Medical Genetics (8)Medical Microbiology (12)Naturopathic Medicine (3)Nephrology (2)Neurology (35)Neuroscience (12)Neurosurgery (8)Obstetrics and Gynecology (37)Occupational Medicine (3)Oncology (1)Ophthalmology (31)Orthopedic Surgery (19)Otolaryngology (7)Pathology (42)Pediatric Surgery (2)Pediatrics (14)Pharmacology (7)Physiology (25)Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (10)Preventive Medicine (4)Psychiatry (41)Public Health (16)Pulmonology (4)Radiology (3)Rheumatology (1)Surgery (216)Traditional Chinese Medicine (4)Trauma Surgery (3)Unani Medicine (2)Urology (7)Vascular Surgery (2)Virology (8)Era (Birth Year)All-2500 (1)-600 (2)-460 (1)50 (1)129 (1)140 (1)150 (1)865 (1)936 (1)980 (1)1094 (1)1140 (1)1162 (1)1210 (1)1260 (1)1300 (1)1412 (1)1450 (2)1453 (1)1455 (1)1460 (1)1471 (1)1484 (1)1493 (1)1500 (1)1501 (1)1505 (1)1510 (1)1514 (2)1515 (1)1516 (1)1517 (1)1518 (1)1530 (1)1532 (1)1533 (1)1534 (1)1535 (2)1545 (1)1550 (1)1558 (1)1560 (2)1566 (1)1569 (1)1572 (1)1575 (1)1578 (1)1589 (1)1593 (1)1595 (1)1600 (1)1603 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Radiation and Monitoring Instrument Inventors (13)Immunology and Transplantation Scientists (16)Indigenous American and Pacific Healing Traditions (2)Maternal, Child Health and Blood Service Founders (3)Midwifery, Reproductive Science and Hospice Care Pioneers (6)Military, Public Health and Reform Surgeons (67)Molecular Biologists and Geneticists (17)Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders (39)Neurologists and Biological Psychiatry Pioneers (47)Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints (68)Obstetricians and Gynecologic Surgeons (21)Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders (10)Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors (10)Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance (31)Physiologists, Anatomists and Natural Historians of Medicine (154)Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians (16)Pioneers of Bacteriology and Parasitology (28)Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists and Humanistic Pioneers (14)Reproductive Technology Inventors (2)Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders (11)Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe (35)Traditional Chinese and East Asian Medicine (12)Unani and Islamic Traditional Medicine (10)Unorthodox and Anthroposophic Physicians (16)Vaccine and Antibiotic Developers (7)NationalityAllAlmoravid dynasty (1)Ancient Rome (1)Argentina (3)Armenia (1)Australia (8)Australia (1)Austria (22)Austria-Hungary (1)Austrian Empire (3)Belgium (6)Brazil (6)British Raj (4)Burkina Faso (1)Canada (19)Chile (1)China (5)Cuba (1)Czechia (5)Czechoslovakia (1)Denmark (7)Eastern Han (2)Egypt (3)England (13)Estonia (3)France (74)Gambia (1)German Empire (3)German Reich (1)Germany (423)Greece (3)Guatemala (1)Habsburg Netherlands (1)Holy Roman Empire (4)Hungary (6)India (28)Iran (4)Iraq (1)Ireland (8)Israel (2)Italy (22)Japan (11)Kingdom of Bavaria (3)Kingdom of France (1)Kingdom of Great Britain (1)Kingdom of Italy (3)Kingdom of Prussia (13)Malaysia (1)Mexico (3)Ming dynasty (1)Morocco (1)Netherlands (16)New Zealand (4)Nigeria (1)North Korea (1)Norway (3)Poland (15)Portugal (2)Qing dynasty (1)Republic of Venice (1)Romania (1)Russia (8)Russian Empire (4)Salerno (1)Scotland (17)South Africa (6)Soviet Union (3)Spain (4)Sweden (6)Switzerland (34)Turkey (2)Ukraine (1)United Kingdom (86)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (7)United States (186)Vietnam (3)Wales (1)Weimar Republic (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 100Charles McBurney (surgeon)Surgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsCharles PatinGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansCharles Richard DrewSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsCharles RichetMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsCharles-Edward Amory WinslowPublic Health and Epidemiology SpecialistsChiaki MukaiSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsChristiaan BarnardSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsChristiaan EijkmanMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsChristian CabrolSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsChristian Friedrich LudwigGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansChristian Friedrich, Baron StockmarGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansChristian Georg SchmorlPathologists and AnatomistsChristian Gottlieb KratzensteinMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsChristian Gottlieb LudwigGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansChristian Julius Wilhelm SchiedeMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsChristoph BroelschSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsChristoph Theodor AebyPathologists and AnatomistsChristoph Wilhelm HufelandTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersChujiro HayashiTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersCicely SaundersNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsClara BartonNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsClarence CrafoordSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsClarke AbelSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsClinton Thomas DentSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsColin Munro MacLeodMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsConrad GessnerGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansCraig G. RogersSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsCrawford LongGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansCredo MutwaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersCurt SchimmelbuschPathologists and AnatomistsCyril V. PinkObstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatric SpecialistsD. C. JarvisTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDada VaidyaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDagfinn AarskogObstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatric SpecialistsDaniel Carleton GajdusekMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsDaniel David PalmerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDaniel Hale WilliamsSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDaniel SennertGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansDattatraya ParchureTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDavid A. KoolenMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsDavid FrawleyTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDavid H. AdamsSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDavid Hayes AgnewSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDavid Heinrich HoppeGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansDavid Henry GoodsallSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDavid RugglesTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDavid SamwellSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDavid VeitGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansDeepak ChopraTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDenis Parsons BurkittSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDennis Harris (alternative medicine)Generalist and Primary Care PhysiciansDenton CooleySurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDerek McMinnSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDesiré DubounetTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDevendra TrigunaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDevi ShettySurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDiambendi MadiegaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDietrich Georg von KieserGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansDivi GopalacharluTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDoc HollidayDentistsDomenico ScilipotiObstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatric SpecialistsDominique Jean LarreySurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDonald DafoeSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDonald LaubSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDorothea DixNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsDorothea ErxlebenGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansDouglas OusterhoutSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDwight HarkenSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsE. Donnall ThomasMedical ScientistsEdgar Alexander MearnsSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEdgar CayceTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdgar von GierkePathologists and AnatomistsEdith JacobsonPsychiatrists and NeurologistsEdmond Bordeaux SzekelyTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdmund Andrews (surgeon)Surgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEdmund RoseSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEdoardo BassiniSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEduard AlbertSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEduard ArningImmunologists and Infectious Disease SpecialistsEduard Friedrich Wilhelm PflügerMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsEduard HitzigPsychiatrists and NeurologistsEduard KrebsbachGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansEduard LudyanskyPsychiatrists and NeurologistsEduard ZeisSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEdward BachTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdward Calvin KendallMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsEdward JennerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdward L. AtkinsonMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsEdwin GoldmannPathologists and AnatomistsEdwin KlebsPathologists and AnatomistsEdwin Theodor SaemischSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEgil TynæsGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansElaine Murphy, Baroness MurphyPsychiatrists and Neurologists← Previous12345…13Next →ConnectionsShowing the first 400 of 1,172 connections.Sources1. International Standard Classification of Occupations (Wikipedia)Wikipedialead paragraphQuote, lead paragraphThe International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) is a system developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to classify and organize occupations into a structured hierarchy.View the SourceA History of Medicinetier 1Lois N. Magner, CRC PressContains: Charles Louis Alphonse LaveranContains: William HarveyTu Youyou (Wikipedia)Contains: Tu YouyouView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. 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