Hopkins Reader

The Health of the First Ladies: Medical Histories from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

In 2007, Ludwig Deppisch ’64 published The White House Physicians, the first book to focus exclusively on the doctors who cared for every president from George Washington to George W. Bush. Now Deppisch has focused on yet another previously unchronicled area of medical history, producing the first book to comprehensively recount details of the health of the most important person in a president’s life: his spouse.

In Vitro Fertilization Comes to America: Memoir of a Medical Breakthrough

In 2013, gynecologist Howard W. Jones Jr. ’35—then merely 102 years old—published Personhood Revisited: Reproductive Technology, Bioethics, Religion and the Law. It was a brief but comprehensive account of these issues and how he and his late wife, endocrinologist Georgeanna Seegar Jones ’36, addressed them as they pioneered in vitro fertilization in the United States and oversaw the 1981 birth of this country’s first “test tube” baby.