title: Thomas N Bonner (1923-2003), medical historian.
abstract: Thomas Bonner made a long academic career, teaching medical history and higher education at several American universities and presiding over three of these. He engaged in politics for 2 years. As a historian of medicine, he published important books on topics including Midwestern medicine, medical education in the United States and in European countries, the entry of women into medicine in the 19th century and on the educator Abraham Flexner. His works were based on exhaustive research, penetrating analysis, language skills and the ability to explain complex information in understandable terms. Bonner lived a passionate life of commitment and devotion to various worthwhile causes.
authors.affiliation: Department of the History of Medicine, Bern, Switzerland marcel.bickel@img.unibe.ch.
authors.forename: Marcel H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Bickel
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States
keywords: American politics; History of medicine; medical education; university administration