---
title: 'Episode 118: Dr Ralph Hruban - A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-118-dr-ralph-hruban-a-scientific-revolution-ten-men-and-women-who-reinvented-american-medicine'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2022-07-04'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8ma9si/A_Scientific_Revolution_-_7_3_22_345_PM94zwd.mp3'
---

# Episode 118: Dr Ralph Hruban - A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Ralph Hruban What we discuss with Dr Ralph Hruban : The original idea for his new book, A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine, and why he chose to write it at this time How the book ...

## Summary

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Ralph Hruban

What we discuss with Dr Ralph Hruban :

- The original idea for his new book, A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine, and why he chose to write it at this time

- How the book grew from his Hopkins at Home lecture series

- Why he chose to include those with a connection to Johns Hopkins

- The writing process, and some new things he learned while researching the book

- Why it was important to show how some of the people in the book faced racism and sexism

- Why it was important to highlight not only accomplishments, but flaws as well

- How the stories of the fight against Yellow Fever and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic have parallels to the fight against COVID-19

- How his perspective of history changed as a result of writing this book

- His thoughts on what may be his next project

Links for this episode:

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[Doctors on Social Media](http://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/)

[The ConfLab from LabVine](https://www.labvinelearning.com/TheConflab)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

A Scientific Revolution on [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Revolution-Reinvented-American-Medicine/dp/1639361472/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2F611FM0CVSST&keywords=a+scientific+revolution+hruban&qid=1656882309&sprefix=a+scientific+%2Caps%2C220&sr=8-1)

The Great Influenza on [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Pandemic-History/dp/0143036491/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TGRSFFWJZUS3&keywords=the+great+influenza+john+barry&qid=1656882377&sprefix=the+great+info%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1)

[Peabody Library](https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-hours/george-peabody-library/)

[Lessons For Today From Nine Greats Lecture Series](https://hopkinsathome.jhu.edu/lessons-today-nine-greats-who-helped-create-hopkins-medicine)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Website](https://peopleofpathology.com/)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/peopleofpath)