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Stanley L. Robbins, MD

Stanley Robbins was an educator and the author of one of the most widely used textbooks in all of medicine; Pathologic Basis of Disease. Dr. Robbins was born in Portland, Maine in 1915. He was raised by his maternal grandmother, Rebekkah, after his mother died in the influenza pandemic of 1918. After graduating Brookline High School, at the top of his class, he received his B.A. from MIT and his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, giving valedictory addresses at both schools. He trained in Pathology at Boston University Medical School and then joined the faculty (in.......). Dr. Robbins became chairman if the Pathology department in 1965 and the Director of the internationally known Mallory Institute of Pathology. He retired from Boston University at age 65 and joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital as a Senior Pathologist until his death in 2003 at the age of 88.

Authorship

Dr. Robbins authorship began with the publication  his first text, Textbook of Pathology, in 1957. After the third edition of this text was published, in 1967, Dr. Robbins took the bold move of re-structuring and re-writing what had become a widely used text, and  published the 1st edition of Pathologic Basis of Disease (PBD), in `1974.To date there have been 11 editions of this book published and translated in 13 languages. It is ranked the number 1 text in Pathology, nationally and internationally.  In 1971 he published Basic Pathology with co-author, Marcia Angell, MD; a much smaller text that summarized the chapters found in PBD, now in its 11th edition.

Chronology: Textbook of Pathology - 1957 Textbook of Pathology 2nd edition -1962 Textbook of Pathology 3rd edition - 1967 Basic Pathology - 1971 with Marcia Angell, MD Pathologic Basis of Disease - 1974 Basic Pathology 2nd edition -1976 - with M. Angell Pathologic Basis of Disease 2nd edition - 1979 with Ramzi Citron Basic Pathologyu 3rd edition - 1981 with M. Angell and Vinay Kumar