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Walter Bradford Cannon
Walter Bradford Cannon (October 19, 1871 – October 1, 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term fight or flight response, and he expanded on Claude Bernard's concept of homeostasis. He popularized his theories in his book "The Wisdom of the Body", first published in 1932. A "Review of General Psychology" survey, published in 2002, ranked Cannon as the 81st most cited scholar of the 20th
Elin L., A. Clifford Barger, Saul Benison (2000) " Walter B. Cannon, Science and Society".
External links.
- 6th APS President at the American Physiological Society
- Walter Bradford Cannon: Experimental Physiologist: 1871-1945 - biography at Harvard Square Library
- Chapter 9 of Explorers of the Body, by Steven Lehrer (contains information about X ray experiments)
- The Walter Bradford Cannon papers can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical