Edmund Jacobson practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Edmund Jacobson as American physiologist (1888–1983).
Edmund Jacobson was born at Chicago in 1888. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Northwestern University and Harvard University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at University of Chicago.
The recorded fields of work are physiology.
His principal contribution is progressive muscle relaxation. Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Edmund Jacobson died in 1983, aged 95. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Notable work: progressive muscle relaxation
- Held posts at University of Chicago
- Fields: physiology
