In the history of medicine, Ladislas Joseph Meduna is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ladislas Joseph Meduna as Hungarian-American neurologist and neuropathologist (1896–1964).
Ladislas Joseph Meduna was born at Budapest in 1896. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Eötvös Loránd 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 Loyola University Chicago.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, psychiatry and neurology.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
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.
Ladislas Joseph Meduna died in 1964, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Loyola University Chicago
- Fields: medicine, psychiatry and neurology
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