SUNY Upstate Medical University: A Pictorial History by Eric v.d. Luft
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SUNY Upstate Medical University: A Pictorial History is a sturdy, Smyth-sewn
paperback, 9½ by 6½ inches, viii + 184 pages, copiously illustrated with photos,
drawings, and documents from the Upstate Archives and other sources in
Upstate’s Special Collections Vault. Written by Upstate Medical University's
Curator of Historical Collections Emeritus, loaded with facts, fully indexed, and
handsomely designed, it will be an accurate, valuable, and easy to use reference
tool for the history of Geneva Medical College, Syracuse University College of
Medicine, and Upstate Medical University for years to come.

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"... a treasure trove of information --
and a treasure."

--Thomas S. Szasz, M.D.,
internationally renowned psychiatrist
and philosopher of medicine
"Deans John Heffron, Herman
Weiskotten, and Julius Richmond
all played major roles on the national
scene, and ... Luft tells their stories well."

-- Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Ph.D., Johns
Hopkins University, in
The Bulletin of
the History of Medicine
, 81, 2
(Summer 2007): 498.
"Most institutional histories of medical schools tell the narrow story of the
creation and growth of that specific school and fail to put this story into the
broader context of American medical educational change. Fortunately Eric
Luft avoids this typical shortcoming and places the history of his medical
school, SUNY Upstate Medical University, within the broader context of
American medical history, from the school’s early nineteenth-century
beginnings in Geneva, New York, into the first decade of the twenty-first
century in Syracuse."

                             -- Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, in
                                     
The Watermark, 29, 2 (Spring 2006): 34-35.
The history of medicine in Central New York has national and
international as well as local and regional importance. Elizabeth
Blackwell, the world’s first woman physician to earn her M.D.
by completing the regular course of study at an accredited
medical school, received that degree in Central New York.
Alumni and faculty of Upstate Medical University and its
predecessor institutions have achieved greatness that has
enriched medicine and society around the world since 1834.
This book tells their stories.