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Joseph Engelberg
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Joseph Engelberg
was born in Vienna.
Following the Nazi takeover he fled, first to England, then to the
United States where he has resided ever since. In his senior year at
the Cooper Union School of Engineering, he developed an interest in the
application of engineering methods to the solution of medical problems.
Following his graduation, he pursued these interests in the Department
of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
While there he obtained a Ph.D. in physics. Following his post-doctoral
studies at the University of Colorado Medical Center and the University
of California at Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the
newly-established University of Kentucky College of Medicine where he is
presently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physiology.
Apart from his
scientific interests, he has wrestled from early times with the
question: Can the universe be approached without adopting the viewpoint
of one or another area of specialization? Is the oxygen molecule, for
example, a citizen of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, or the
humanities?
What seemed to be
lacking was not another area of specialization but an approach that was
above and beyond these areas of specialization. Further, this approach
should not talk about integration but help individuals bring this
about. From this premise a plethora of activities ensued. They
included the establishment of an Office of Integrative Studies. The
Office made use of the vast resources available in any major
university. It developed dozens of college, university-wide, and
community-wide programs ranging from graduate and medical education, to
hospital care, religion, and humanistic studies.
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