| LC control no. | n 00009063 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wessel, Morris A. |
| Located | New Haven (Conn.) |
| Birth date | 1917-11-01 |
| Death date | 2016-08-20 |
| Place of birth | Providence (R.I.) |
| Place of death | New Haven (Conn.) |
| Field of activity | Pediatrics Hospice care |
| Affiliation | Yale University. School of Medicine Connecticut Hospice |
| Profession or occupation | Pediatricians |
| Found in | Parents book for raising a healthy child, c1987: t.p. (Morris A. Wessel, M.D.) Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 7, 2016 (Morris Wessel, a pediatrician and hospice pioneer, died Aug. 20 [2016] at his home in New Haven, Conn.; he was 98; for 42 years, until his retirement in 1993, Dr. Wessel saw rich and poor families at his office near Yale New Haven Hospital; as a research fellow at Yale's medical school in the late 1940s, he was part of a team that studied the novel practice of keeping newborns with their mothers instead of placing them in a hospital nursery; several years later, at the helm of his own Yale research team, Dr. Wessel attempted to root out the cause of colic; Dr. Wessel largely moved away from medical research after his colic study, although in the 1970s he joined researcher Anthony Dominski in decrying toxic levels of lead found in children; around that same time, Dr. Wessel joined with Florence S. Wald to co-found the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, the first U.S. center to provide end-of-life care outside a hospital; Morris Arthur Wessel was born in Providence, R.I., on Nov. 1, 1917) |
| Associated language | eng |
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