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Howard Markel
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Howard Markel is an American physician and medical historian who writes about major figures and developments in medicine and public health.
Biography
Howard Markel, born April 23, 1960, is an American physician and medical historian. He retired from the University of Michigan Medical School at the end of 2023. There, he held the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professorship in the History of Medicine and directed the university’s Center for the History of Medicine.
His university appointments also included professorships in psychiatry, health management and policy, history, and pediatrics and communicable diseases. Markel writes extensively about the history of medicine and public health. In The Kelloggs, he examines the lives and rivalry of John Harvey Kellogg and Will Kellogg, connecting their work to changes in American medicine, nutrition, diet, and ideas about wellness.
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Books by Howard Markel
The Kelloggs
The Kelloggs traces the lives and rivalry of John Harvey Kellogg, physician and founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, and Will Kellogg, founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. It examines how the brothers helped shape American medicine, food production, nutrition, and notions of health and wellness from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.