Robert Frank Jr.

Professor Emeritus

Email: rfrankj@ucla.edu

Office: 5268 Bunche Hall

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Field of Study

Science

History of the Biological Sciences and History of Medicine

Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: A Study of Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction. Berkeley/Los Angeles: U.C. Press, 1981
“The Image of Harvey in Commonwealth and Restoration England,” in Jerome J. Bylebyl, ed., William Harvey and His Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P, 1979), 103-143
“The Physician as Virtuoso in Seventeenth-Century England,” in Barbara Shapiro and Robert G. Frank, Jr., English Scientific Virtuosi in the 16th & 17th Centuries (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Library, 1979), 57-114 (With L.H. Marshall and H.W. Magoun)
“The Neurosciences,” in Advances in American Medicine: Essays at the Bicentennial (New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1976), I, 552-613
“Science, Medicine, and the Universities of Early Modern England: Background and Sources,” History of Science,
(1973), II: 194-216, 239-269