Walter Jackson Freeman II belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Walter Jackson Freeman II as American neurologist (1895-1972).
Walter Jackson Freeman II was born at Philadelphia in 1895. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Yale University and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
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.
Walter Jackson Freeman II died in 1972, aged 77. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
