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 Results1,496 entriesHealing TraditionAllAcupuncturists and Acupuncture Researchers (9)African Traditional Healers (4)Anatomists and Physiologists of Antiquity and the Renaissance (9)Anesthesiologists and Perioperative Care Pioneers (8)Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine (32)Cardiac, Vascular and Transplant Surgeons (46)Cellular and Disease Pathologists (38)Clinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (104)Dentists and Pioneers of Dental Anesthesia (5)Epidemiology and Tropical Disease Control Pioneers (9)Experimental Pathologists and Chemotherapy Pioneers (3)Founders of Antisepsis and Modern Operative Surgery (71)Founders of Modern Nursing and Battlefield Care (6)Fringe and Alternative Medicine Founders (45)HIV and Modern Infectious Disease Leaders (5)Hormone, Vitamin and Drug Discoverers (16)Hydrotherapy and Physical Culture (27)Imaging, Radiation and Monitoring Instrument Inventors (14)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 (84)Molecular Biologists and Geneticists (20)Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders (40)Neurologists and Biological Psychiatry Pioneers (57)Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints (88)Obstetricians and Gynecologic Surgeons (28)Ophthalmic Surgery (1)Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders (11)Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors (12)Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance (37)Physiologists, Anatomists and Natural Historians of Medicine (186)Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians (21)Pioneers of Bacteriology and Parasitology (33)Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1)Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists and Humanistic Pioneers (18)Reproductive Technology Inventors (2)Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders (11)Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe (41)Traditional Chinese and East Asian Medicine (21)Unani and Islamic Traditional Medicine (10)Unorthodox and Anthroposophic Physicians (16)Vaccine and Antibiotic Developers (7)Specialist InAllAnatomy (60)Anesthesiology (7)Ayurveda (6)Cardiology (9)Cardiothoracic Surgery (33)Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2)Critical Care Medicine (1)Dermatology (17)Endocrinology (7)Epidemiology (8)Family Medicine (11)Forensic Pathology (2)Gastroenterology (2)Genetics (3)Geriatrics (1)Hematology (5)Histology (6)Homeopathy (3)Hospice and Palliative Medicine (1)Immunology (10)Infectious 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Modern Operative Surgery (71)Founders of Modern Nursing and Battlefield Care (6)Fringe and Alternative Medicine Founders (45)HIV and Modern Infectious Disease Leaders (5)Hormone, Vitamin and Drug Discoverers (16)Hydrotherapy and Physical Culture (27)Imaging, Radiation and Monitoring Instrument Inventors (14)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 (84)Molecular Biologists and Geneticists (20)Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders (40)Neurologists and Biological Psychiatry Pioneers (57)Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints (88)Obstetricians and Gynecologic Surgeons (28)Ophthalmic Surgery (1)Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders (11)Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors (12)Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance (37)Physiologists, Anatomists and Natural Historians of Medicine (186)Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians (21)Pioneers of Bacteriology and Parasitology (33)Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1)Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists and Humanistic Pioneers (18)Reproductive Technology Inventors (2)Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders (11)Surgeons of Antiquity, the Islamic World and Early Modern Europe (41)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 (4)Armenia (1)Australia (8)Australia (1)Austria (41)Austria-Hungary (3)Austrian Empire (3)Belgium (8)Brazil (7)British Raj (4)Bulgaria (1)Burkina Faso (1)Canada (22)Chile (1)China (5)Cuba (1)Cyprus (1)Czechia (8)Czechoslovakia (1)Denmark (8)Eastern Han (2)Egypt (3)England (15)Estonia (3)France (97)Gambia (1)German Empire (3)German Reich (1)Germany (488)Greece (5)Guatemala (1)Habsburg Netherlands (1)Holy Roman Empire (5)Hungary (8)India (31)Iran (5)Iraq (1)Ireland (9)Israel (2)Italy (28)Japan (12)Kingdom of Bavaria (3)Kingdom of France (1)Kingdom of Great Britain (1)Kingdom of Italy (3)Kingdom of Prussia (14)Malaysia (1)Mexico (3)Ming dynasty (1)Morocco (1)Netherlands (18)New Zealand (5)Nigeria (1)North Korea (1)Norway (5)Ottoman Empire (1)Pakistan (1)Poland (15)Portugal (5)Qing dynasty (1)Republic of Venice (1)Romania (1)Russia (11)Russian Empire (5)Salerno (1)Scotland (23)South Africa (6)Soviet Union (3)Spain (6)Sweden (7)Switzerland (43)Turkey (2)Ukraine (2)United Kingdom (97)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (7)United States (224)Vietnam (3)Wales (1)Weimar Republic (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 100Deepak 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 PhysiciansDietrich Wilhelm Heinrich BuschObstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatric SpecialistsDinara UzbekovaMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsDivi GopalacharluTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDoc HollidayDentistsDomenico ScilipotiObstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatric SpecialistsDominique Jean LarreySurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDonald DafoeSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDonald DalrympleSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDonald LaubSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsDorothea DixNursing and Midwifery ProfessionalsDorothea ErxlebenGeneralist 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AtkinsonMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsEdward Percival WrightSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEdwin GoldmannPathologists and AnatomistsEdwin KlebsPathologists and AnatomistsEdwin Theodor SaemischSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEgil TynæsGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansElaine Murphy, Baroness MurphyPsychiatrists and NeurologistsEleni TheocharousSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsElfriede PaulPublic Health and Epidemiology SpecialistsEli Peck MillerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersÉlie FaureGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansElie MetchnikoffImmunologists and Infectious Disease SpecialistsElisabeth Kubler-RossPsychiatrists and NeurologistsElizabeth BlackwellGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansElizabeth Garrett AndersonSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsElizabeth Wright HubbardTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEllen Goodell SmithTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersElmer LeeTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersElsa GindlerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersElvira BierbachTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEmanuel FelkeTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEmery HetrickPsychiatrists and NeurologistsEmil du Bois-ReymondMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsEmil HasslerMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsEmil PfeifferObstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatric SpecialistsEmil StarkensteinMedical Scientists, Physiologists and PharmacologistsEmil Theodor KocherSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEmil von BehringImmunologists and Infectious Disease SpecialistsEmil von DungernGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansEmil ZsigmondyGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansEmil ZuckerkandlPathologists and AnatomistsEmin PashaGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansEmmet DensmoreGeneralist and Primary Care PhysiciansEphraim McDowellSurgeons and Perioperative SpecialistsEric F. 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