Talk:Walter Bradford Cannon

G. Hans Selye

GHans Selye attributes the concept of homeostasis to Cannon, but the wiki attributes it to Claude Bernard...Who's right?

Biography challenge

It is evident that this is a hard biography to do even though there is ample material to support a good narrative of his life. One of the reasons is clear from the exchange found at Medical education#Case study which shows that his autobiography The Way of the Investigator may be misleading. These wiki's may be helpful to the courageous: G. W. Pierce and Wicht Club (1903 - 1911). Rgdboer 20:23, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

An interesting statement in the autobiography appears in the chapter "The Spirit of Adventure" (p.28):

First among them [demands on an investgator] is resourcefulness. ... As the frontiersman may make a corn knife out of a broken scythe blade, or a butcher knife out of a rusty file, or a soap factory from an empty barrel and an iron kettle, so the pioneering investigator may be compelled to use his ingenuity to the limit in adapting available appraratus and materials to the purposes he has in mind.

The "frontiersman" insights would be natural to George Washington Pierce's background but not to Cannon's. The book invites textual analysis. It is an important testament from a key physiologist; it is essential for understanding him.Rgdboer (talk) 22:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Further reading section removed

I removed the folling list of works about Cannon. This list is just to long for the article itselve. Some of them could return to the article as real reference, if they have really something te say about Cannon. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 15:49, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• Bertrand, Paul P (2007). "Teaching basic gastrointestinal physiology using classic papers by Dr. Walter B. Cannon". Advances in physiology education. 31 (2): 136–9. doi:10.1152/advan.00112.2006. PMID 17562900. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Chambers, N K (2001). "Shock at the millennium II. Walter B. Cannon and Lawrence J. Henderson". Shock. 16 (4): 278–84. PMID 11580110. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Fernández de Molina y Cañas, A (1999). "[Gregorio Marañón and Walter B. Cannon]". Anales de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina. 116 (4): 749–62. PMID 10897869. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• "Commemorating a classic, and its creator Walter Bradford Cannon". Indian J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 42 (4): 437–9. 1998. PMID 10874341. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Chambers, N K (2000). "Shock at the millennium. I. Walter B. Cannon and Alfred Blalock". Shock. 13 (6): 497–504. PMID 10847639. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Breathnach, C S (1997). "Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945): early and late aftermath of contrast radiography". Journal of medical biography. 5 (1): 14–6. PMID 11618850. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Gervais, D (1995). "Walter B. Cannon, MD". Radiology. 194 (1): 31–2. PMID 7997577. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Benison, S (1991). "Walter B. Cannon and the mystery of shock: a study of Anglo-American co-operation in World War I". Medical history. 35 (2): 216–49. PMID 2051850. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Benison, S (1991). "The Fielding H. Garrison lecture. Walter B. Cannon and the politics of medical science, 1920-1940". Bulletin of the history of medicine. 65 (2): 234–51. PMID 1873579. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Gorisch, E (1990). "[Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945). The professional activities of an outstanding physiologist]". Zeitschrift für die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete. 36 (7): 368–70. PMID 2204236. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Warren, J V (1988). "Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945)". J. Lab. Clin. Med. 111 (5): 593–4. PMID 3283281. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Cross, S J (1987). "Walter B. Cannon, L. J. Henderson, and the organic analogy". Osiris. 3: 165–92. PMID 11621658. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Cannon, W B. "The James-Lange theory of emotions: a critical examination and an alternative theory. By Walter B. Cannon, 1927". The American journal of psychology. 100 (3–4): 567–86. PMID 3322057. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)
• Fleming, D (1984). "Walter B. Cannon and homeostasis". Social research. 51 (3): 609–40. PMID 11616403. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Cannon, B (1982). "Walter Bradford Cannon, M.D.: Reflections on the physician, the man, and his contributions". Gastrointestinal radiology. 7 (1): 1–6. PMID 7037520. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Barger, A C (1981). "Sosman lecture. New technology for a new century: Walter B. Cannon and the invisible rays". AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 136 (1): 187–95. PMID 6779567. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Chang, S (1980). "In memory of our visiting professor: Walter B. Cannon at Peking". Physiologist. 23 (3): 39–40. PMID 6997901. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Dunphy, J E (1975). "Third Walter B. Cannon Lecture, 1974. The surgical treatment of gastrointestinal ulcer: past and future". The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy, and nuclear medicine. 123 (2): 229–35. PMID 1090197. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Davenport, H W (1973). "The first Walter Bradford Cannon lecture before the Society of Gastro-intestinal Radiologists". The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy, and nuclear medicine. 119 (2): 235–40. PMID 4583930. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Joaquín Izquierdo, J (1972). "[Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945). His human generous personality. In memoriam]". Gaceta médica de México. 104 (1): 73–6. PMID 4560924. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Zaĭko, N N. "[Centennial of the birth of Walter Bradford Cannon]". Patologicheskaia fiziologiia i èksperimental'naia terapiia. 16 (2): 91–2. PMID 4557939. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)
• Iaroshevskiĭ, M G (1971). "[Centenary of the birth of Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945)]". Fiziologicheskiĭ zhurnal SSSR imeni I. M. Sechenova. 57 (10): 1559–62. PMID 4942398. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• "Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945) Harvard physiologist". JAMA. 203 (12): 1063–5. 1968. PMID 4868191. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Mayer, J (1965). "Walter Bradford Cannon--a biographical sketch (October 19, 1871--October 1, 1945)". J. Nutr. 87 (1): 3–8. PMID 5319578. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysource=, and |laysummary= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |quotes= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

Fellow of Royal Society

A biography by H.H. Hall has just been discovered by Duncan Hull and posted in references. This biography notes Cannon's venture into the subject of neurotransmission. Previously data from his Way of the Investigator and a few other sources framed his life, but the serious consideration by Hall allows an editor to improve our article. An editor that can appreciate the distance travelled since Cannon's time could make an important contribution by drawing on the new source.Rgdboer (talk) 19:18, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Service in WWI

There is passing mention he was a 'military physician' in WWI, but this could say more, eg rank achieved, any awards, countries in which he served. Today I read of him in Bill Bryson's The Body, A Guide for Occupants (published 2019), when treating his work on homeostasis, that Cannon "At the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted as a volunteer for the Harvard Hospital Unit even though he was forty-five years old and the father of five children. He spent two years in Europe as a field doctor." There seems to be no Wikipedia article whose title matches that quoted by Bryson although I understand a unit manned by Harvard doctors did go to France, its other members included Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador coast fame (a Briton born). As Cannon was born 1871, Bryson's narrative shows Cannon joined the year the USA entered WWI, 1917 rather than 1914 when hostilities broke out in Europe.Cloptonson (talk) 19:45, 12 April 2020 (UTC)