Herbert Ratner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Historian of medicine
Date of Birth: 23-May-1907
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 06-Dec-1997
Profession: physician
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Herbert Ratner
- Herbert Spencer Ratner (also Herbert Albert Ratner) (May 23, 1907 – December 6, 1997), an American physician, taught and wrote on the philosophy and history of medicine and was a popular lecturer on marriage and the family.
- Ratner was the director of public health for the community of Oak Park, Illinois, for twenty-five years.
- An advocate of preventive family medicine based on natural norms, he was also a long-time proponent of informed medical consent, and played a pivotal role in the polio vaccine controversy beginning in 1955.
- For more than twenty-nine years Ratner was editor of Child and Family Quarterly, a paramedical journal which ran articles on the Hippocratic Oath, infant development, women’s health, and other topics related to family health.
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