1. Morris Fishbein was an American physician and editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1924 to 1950.
13 Facts About Morris Fishbein
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Morris Fishbein is vilified in the chiropractic community due to his principal role in founding and propagating the campaign to suppress and end chiropractic as a profession due to its basis in pseudoscientific practices.
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Morris Fishbein was born in St Louis, Missouri, on July 22,1889, son of an immigrant Jewish peddler who moved his family to Indianapolis.
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Morris Fishbein served for 18 months as a resident physician at the Durand Hospital for Infectious Diseases.
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Morris Fishbein joined George H Simmons, editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association, as an assistant and advanced to the editorship in 1924, a position he maintained until 1950.
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Morris Fishbein was on the cover of Time on June 21,1937.
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Morris Fishbein endowed a chair at the university for the same subject, a chair taken up by Debus in 1978.
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The 7th floor in Shoreland Hall at the University of Chicago was known as Morris Fishbein House, using the Morris Fishbein name as its namesake.
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Morris Fishbein died on September 27,1976, in Chicago, Illinois.
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Morris Fishbein was survived by two daughters, Barbara Fishbein Friedell and Marjorie Clavey, and his son, Justin M Fishbein.
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Morris Fishbein was notable due to his affinity for exposing quacks, notably the goat-gland surgeon John R Brinkley, and campaigning for regulation of medical devices.
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In 1938, Morris Fishbein authored a two-part article "Modern Medical Charlatans" in the journal Hygeia which criticized the quackery of Brinkley.
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Morris Fishbein was critical of the activities of Mary Baker Eddy whom he considered a fraud and plagiarist.