Summers, William C - Yale University - Biological & Biomedical Sciences

个人简介

Professor William C. Summers' interests range from molecular biology to Chinese culture and history. A well-published researcher in virology and in the history of science and medicine, Professor Summers earned both his M.D. and his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. He joined the Yale Faculty in 1968. Professor Summers has held fellowships and visiting faculty positions at major research universities in the United States, Sweden, Great Britain, Singapore, and China; he serves on numerous panels and editorial boards. He first travelled to the People's Republic of China in 1980 with the Yale delegation that re-established the medical exchange program with the Hunan Medical College. Professor Summers has done extensive research on Chinese public health and medicine, publishing articles on historic parallels between Chinese and Western medical development, Chinese government medical policy, and acupuncture. At Yale, students enjoy Professor Summers' Freshman Seminar, "Epidemics in Global Perspective," which deals with historical issues of policy and epidemic disease. He also teaches a seminar on the history of Chinese science in which he deals with Chinese concepts of the natural world, Asian technological development, and East-West scientific interactions. His outgoing and accessible personality makes him a favorite among students, and he was awared the 2006 Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Prize for teaching in Yale College MD University of Wisconsin (1967) PhD University of Wisconsin (1967) MS University of Wisconsin-Madison (1963) BS University of Wisconsin-Madison (1961) Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology

研究领域

Biological Phenomena; History of Medicine; Humanities; Microbiological Phenomena; Molecular Biology; Plague; Public Health; Radiology; Viruses; Global Health; Genetic Phenomena; Diseases

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Physics and Genes: Einstein to Delbrück. Summers, W.C. (2010). Physics and Genes: Einstein to Delbrück. In Sloan, Philip (ed.) The Three Man Paper. Univ of Chicago Press, [in press] Encyclopedia of Microbiology Schaechter, M., Summers, W.C., et al. eds. (2009). Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Third Edition. New York and London: Elsevier. Six volumes. ntibiotic Resistance: A Historical Introduction Summers, W.C. (2007). Antibiotic Resistance: A Historical Introduction. In: Lewis, K., Salyers, A.A., Taber, H.W., and Wax, R.G (eds) Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobials: Mechanisms, Genetics, Medical Practice, and Public Health, Second Ed.. New York: Marcel Dekker. Bacteriophage T7. Summers, W.C. (2007). Bacteriophage T7. In: Acheson, N., Ed. Fundamentals of Molecular Virology, New York: J. Wiley & Sons. Introduction to bacteriophages, history of phage research and phage therapy. Summers, W.C. (2006). Introduction to bacteriophages, history of phage research and phage therapy. In: Bacteriophages and Bacterial Pathogens, M. Waldor, D. Friedman, and S. Adhya, eds. ASM Press. Reconceiving the gene: Seymour Benzer's adventures in phage genetics. Summers, W.C., ed. 2006. F.L. Holmes. Reconceiving the gene: Seymour Benzer's adventures in phage genetics. Yale Univ. Press. Phage and the early development of molecular biology. Summers, W.C. (2006). Phage and the early development of molecular biology. In: Calendar, R., ed. The Bacteriophages. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.