Cardiology in the Young
2010; Page 1 of 9
doi:10.1017/S1047951110000259
© Cambridge University
Press, 2010
Received: 26 August 2009;
Accepted: 29 December 2009
Helen Brooke Taussig and Edwards Albert Park: the early
years (1927–1930)
Author
William N Evans, MD
Source
ChildrenŐs Heart Center
Nevada, 3006 S Maryland Pkwy, Ste 690, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA.
E-mail: WNevans50@aol.com.
Abstract
The conventional history of
paediatric cardiology teaches that it was Helen Taussig who founded the cardiac
clinic for children at the Harriet Lane Home of the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine in 1930,when Edwards Park appointed her director of the clinic.
However, the story was more complex than that, and involved the collaboration
of institutions and the frustrations, doubts, and passions of both Park and Taussig.
In this article, I explore the history in more depth through published works,
and material preserved at the McGill University Archives, the Rockefeller
Foundation Archives, and the Alan Chesney Medical Archives at Johns Hopkins.