Stewart Wolf

Stewart George Wolf, Jr. (January 12, 1914—September 24, 2005) was an American physician and researcher in the field of psychosomatic medicine.

Stewart Wolf
Born(1914-01-12)January 12, 1914
Baltimore, Maryland
DiedSeptember 24, 2005(2005-09-24) (aged 91)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University, Johns Hopkins University
Known forRoseto effect
Scientific career
FieldsPsychosomatic medicine
InstitutionsUniversity of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Texas Medical Branch

Early life and education

Wolf was born on January 12, 1914, to Stewart George Wolf, a Baltimore businessman, and his wife, Angeline Griffing Wolf.[1] He graduated from Phillips Academy, after which he attended Yale University before transferring from there to Johns Hopkins University, where he received his medical degree in 1938.[1] He then completed his internship at Cornell-New York Hospital.[1]

Career

During World War II, Wolf ran a 1,000-bed hospital in the South Pacific Area.[2] In 1952, Wolf became the first full-time head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma, as well as the head of the neuroscience section of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.[1] In 1958, he founded the Totts Gap Medical Research Laboratories in Bangor, Pennsylvania.[1] In 1969, he left the University of Oklahoma to found and direct the Marine Biomedical Institute at the University of Texas Medical Branch.[1]

Research

Although he originally studied digestion,[3] Wolf is known for his research into the Roseto effect, which he became interested in while talking to a local doctor in 1961,[4] and which he published a study about in 1963. In this study, he suggested the reason people living in Roseto, Pennsylvania had fewer heart attacks was because of their close family relationships.[5] He also published a study on the placebo effect in nausea in 1950[6] which has been called "seminal" and "one of the earliest reports on the power of placebo" by Irving Kirsch.[7]

Death

Wolf died on September 24, 2005, at Epworth Villa Alzheimers Care and Study Center in Oklahoma City, at the age of 91.[1]

gollark: It harvests power from the universe it has in there, you don't need to provide any.
gollark: It doesn't.
gollark: ...
gollark: Ah. You turned it *ou*. Turn it on instead.
gollark: I see.

References
  1. "Dr. Stewart Wolf Jr". The Morning Call. 12 October 2005. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  2. "Former Regent Stewart Wolf Dies". National Library of Medicine. 9 January 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  3. Gladwell, Malcolm (2008). "1". Outliers. Little, Brown and Company.
  4. Grossman, Ron (11 October 1996). "A New 'Roseto Effect'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  5. Mathias, Madeleine (8 October 2005). "Dr. Stewart Wolf Jr., who studied health of Roseto residents, dies at age 91". Morning Call. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  6. WOLF, S (January 1950). "Effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects; the pharmacology of placebos". The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 29 (1): 100–9. doi:10.1172/jci102225. PMC 439730. PMID 15399519.
  7. Kirsch, I (July 2008). "Challenging received wisdom: antidepressants and the placebo effect". McGill Journal of Medicine : MJM : An International Forum for the Advancement of Medical Sciences by Students. 11 (2): 219–22. PMC 2582668. PMID 19148327.
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