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George Libman Engel was born in New York City in 1913. He completed his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1934. He then studied medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, graduating in 1938. He was an intern at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City), a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, and a graduate assistant in medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital).
In 1942, Engel moved to Cincinnati at the invitation of John Romano, who left Harvard to become the chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. Both Engel and Romano then moved to the University of Rochester Medical School in 1946.
When commencing his medical career, Engel believed strongly in physical explanations of disease processes, even though some colleagues were incorporating psychosomatics into clinical practice. However, during his time at the University of Cincinnati, he...
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Gellman, M.D. (2013). Engel, George. In: Gellman, M.D., Turner, J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1005-9_1714
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