DUKE
MEDICAL
UNIVERSITY
CENTER
VOL. 11, NO. 4 OCTOBER, 1964 DTTRHAM, N. C.
Human Behavior in the Practice of Medicine
The faculty of the freshman program, Division of Human Behavior, Department of Psy
chiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, now numbers seventeen. Here meeting in
conference are, left to right. Dr. Robert F. Klein, Associate in Medicine; Dr. Daniel T.
Gianturco, Resident in Psychiatry; Dr. Peter L. Hein, Jr., Assistant Professor of Psychia
try; Dr. Charles M. Culver, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Dr. Frederick R. Hine,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and head of the Division of Human Behavior; Dr. Donald
J. Stedman, Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology; Mr. Alfred Dean, Associate in
Medical Sociology and Lecturer in Sociology; Dr. George L. Maddox, Jr., Professor of
Medical Sociology and Professor of Sociology; and Dr. Robert C. Carson, Associate Pro
fessor of Medical Psychology and Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Other members of the freshman faculty are Dr. John C. Altrocchi, Associate Professor
of Medical Psychology and Assistant Professor of Psychology; Dr. Jack J. Preiss, Asso
ciate Professor of Medical Sociology and Associate Professor of Sociology; Dr. Barry M.
Shmavonian, Associate Professor of Medical Psychology and Lecturer in Psychology; Dr.
Wilford W. Spradlin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Dr. Adriaan Verwoerdt, Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry; Dr. James D. Mallory, Jr., Assistant Resident in Psychiatry;
Dr. Albert H. Powell, Jr., Assistant Resident in Psychiatry; and Dr. Jack Botwinick,
Associate Professor of Medical Psychology.
One useful by-product of a flourishing program in human behavior is the opportunity
for interchange of knowledge among a widely ranging group of disciplines.
(Duke photo by Sparks)
One of the newest members of the
family of an increasinfr number of
medical faculties in this country to
day is the Division of Unman Be
havior. Althouprh for some years,
schools of medicine—inclndiuf^ Duke
—had offered medical students a p re-
clinical introduction to psychiatry, an
important stimulus for the current
interest in human behavior came some
six or seven years ag'o from the Na
tional Institute of Mental Health. By
that time it had become apparent that
there is today available in tlie be
havioral sciences a body of data and
concepts sufficiently developed to have
sif'nifieance for the practicing physi
cian and to provide useful principles
for the medical researcher. Funds
from the National Institute of Mental
Health have made it possible for a
number of medical schools to begin
assembling faculties who could relate
the behavioral sciences to the care and
study of patients.
What are the behavioral sciences
and where does one seek the faculty
com])etent to teach in this area? Dr.
Frederick K. lline, Associate I’rofes-
sor of Psychiatry and ])resent head of
the Division of Human Behavior at
Duke Medical Center, includes psy
chophysiology, i>sychology, social psy
chology and sociology, and anthro
pology as the areas of knowledge u])on
which medicine can draw in order to
understand the behavioral aspects of
human life. He adds that, in an area
as new as the scientific study of hu
man behavior, two additional points
must be considered. First of all,
since behavioral science often apj)cars
quite “unscientific” to the student of
medicine, the presentation usefully
includes some clarification of the bases
of knowledge and the nature of scien
tific study—an area sometimes called
“philosopliy of science.” A second
and even more important point is that
there is a vital need for the Integra-