James J. (James Joseph) Walsh Audiobooks

About the author

Born in 1865, he was an American physician and author whose work moved easily between medicine, history, and Catholic intellectual life. Reliable reference sources describe him as a physician and writer, and Fordham remembers him as an imaginative professor of medicine as well as a public intellectual.

He studied at Fordham and later earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, then pursued further medical study in major European centers including Paris, Vienna, and Berlin. Alongside his medical career, he became widely known for writing and lecturing on the history of medicine, the relationship between science and religion, and the achievements of Catholic scholars.

His long list of books and essays helped make specialized subjects approachable for general readers. That mix of professional expertise, curiosity, and clear popular writing is a big part of why his work still stands out today.

James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

13 Audiobooks

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease

Catholic Churchmen in Science [First Series] Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics Who Were Among the Great Founders in Science

The century of Columbus

Makers of Modern Medicine

Essays In Pastoral Medicine

The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time

Medieval Medicine

Education: How Old The New

The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries

Health Through Will Power

Religion And Health

Makers of Electricity

About the author