author
M. C. (Milton C.) Winternitz
1885–1959
A pioneering American pathologist and longtime Yale medical dean, he helped reshape medical education in the early 20th century. His work ranged from influenza and war-gas pathology to the broader idea that medicine should connect with the social sciences.
1 Audiobook
The pathology of influenza
by M. C. (Milton C.) Winternitz, Frank P. McNamara, Isabel M. Wason
About the author
Born in Baltimore in 1885, Milton C. Winternitz studied at Johns Hopkins, where he graduated unusually young and trained in pathology under leading figures of the era. He went on to teach and practice pathology at Johns Hopkins before moving to Yale in 1917.
At Yale, he became the first Brady Professor of Pathology and built what the school later described as its modern pathology department. He also served as dean of the Yale School of Medicine from 1920 to 1935, a period widely remembered as crucial to the school’s growth, and he founded the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine in 1928.
Winternitz wrote and edited medical works including The Pathology of Influenza and studies on arteriosclerosis and war-gas poisoning. He was also involved in creating Yale’s Institute of Human Relations, reflecting his interest in linking medicine with psychology and the social sciences. He died in 1959.