Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences: A Guide to the Literature.
This is an annotated bibliography, key word index, and microthesaurus.
Volume One - Charles W Shilling and Margaret F Werts (eds), Plenum Publishers.
Volume Two - Margaret F Werts and Charles W Shilling (eds).
Volume Three - Margaret F Werts and Charles W Shilling (eds).
Volume Four - Margaret F Werts and Charles W Shilling (eds).
Volume Five - Charles W Shilling, Lyn E Teven, and Margaret F Werts (eds).
Volume Six - Charles W Shilling and Lyn E Teven (eds).
Who was Dr. Shilling?
Dr. Charles W Shilling (1901-1994) joined the Navy upon completeing
medical school at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1927.
His distingished career started with an investigation into the deaths
of the crew aboard a sunken submarine and continued on to help with
the design of the Momsen Lung and McCann Rescue Bell. At the
Experimental Diving Unit in 1933 (located in Washington, DC at the
time), he was active in pioneering research on decompression sickness
and decompression proceedures. Dr. Shilling organized and directed the
Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory in Grotton, CT during
World War II. Dr. Shilling was a retired Captain MC, USN in 1973 when
he took the position as Executive Secretary of the Undersea Medical
Society (now the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society) where he
served until 1987.
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Charles W. Shilling Award:
The award is presented at the annual meeting for contributions of an
outstanding nature to teaching, to the support of the goals of the
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society in educating the diving
community and the public to communications about science and practice
of diving medicine and related fields, to research managers who have
supported diving science and to patrons whose concern about the diving
community has been reflected in financial and emotional support of the
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and its membership.
http://www.uhms.org/Meetings/AWARDS.asp
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