| Norman Bethune, eccentric, man of principle, man of action, surgeon, and his contribution to blood transfusion in war. | |
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PMID: 17572263 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Norman Bethune was a Canadian surgeon born of a family with wide interests and varied and influential careers. He himself had wide interests in medicine, politics, and the arts. One phase of his career, lasting about 6 months, involved the rapid development and exploitation of a (then) unique mobile blood transfusion service delivering citrated stored blood to hospitals and casualty clearing stations in support of the Republican ("anti-fascist") forces in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 to 1937. He was among the first to recognize the importance of prompt transfusion in the severely injured. His contributions to transfusion medicine were not immediately acknowledged by his contemporaries interested in transfusion, perhaps a consequence of his failure to publish his experience in the relevant medical literature, although other factors probably also played a part. In the past 30 years or so, as part of a wider appreciation of his career (particularly his work in China in 1938-1939), details of his endeavors in transfusion in Spain have come to light. |
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Authors:
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Peter H Pinkerton |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Biography; Historical Article; Portraits; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Transfusion medicine reviews Volume: 21 ISSN: 0887-7963 ISO Abbreviation: Transfus Med Rev Publication Date: 2007 Jul |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2007-06-18 Completed Date: 2007-08-21 Revised Date: 2008-11-21 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8709027 Medline TA: Transfus Med Rev Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 255-64 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
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Blood Banks
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history* Blood Transfusion / history* Canada History, 20th Century Humans Military Medicine / history* Spain War |
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Personal Name Subject:
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Norman Bethune |
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