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Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig (681 words) |
 | Helen Taussig's mother died when she was only 11, and her grandfather, a physician who had a strong interest in biology and zoology, may also have influenced her decision to become a doctor. |
| Taussig used fluoroscopy, a new x-ray technique, to establish that babies suffering from anoxemia had a leaking septum (the wall that separates the chambers of the heart), and an underdeveloped artery leading from the heart to the lungs. |
| In 1954 Helen Taussig received the prestigious Lasker Award for her work on the blue baby operation, and in 1959 she was awarded a full professorship at Johns Hopkins University, one of the first women in the history of the school to hold that rank. |
| Frank W. Taussig (338 words) |
| Frank W. Taussig, was a student and later colleague of Charles Dunbar at Harvard. |
| Taussig's prime position at Harvard, his famous 1911 textbook and his control of the Quarterly Journal of Economics helped spread his version of Cambridge Neoclassicism throughout the United States. |
| Taussig was an opponent of the idea of a "Marginalist Revolution", stressing instead the congruity of Classical and Neoclassical economics. |
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