"This volume begun in Walter B. Cannon: The Life and Times traces the middle and late years of one of America's most distinguished crusaders of medical science from his service in World War I until his death at the end of World War II in 1945." "The biography covers Cannon's laboratory and battlefield work on traumatic (wound) shock in England and France in 1917-18. It follows him in his career as head of physiology at Harvard Medical School, where...