Meaning: From Science to Transcendence

About the Book

About the Author

Dr. Davies was the founder of the Society for Advanced Medical Systems that grew into the American Medical Informatics Association. He became the Executive Secretary of the (four-agency) Study Group on Smoking and Health. He designed a method for selecting candidates for periodic examination for major cancers according to risk. After graduating from the College of Wooster, Dr. Davies earned his Ph.D. and M.D. degrees at Case Western Reserve University. He has served on the faculties of Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and the University of Tennessee. He and his wife, the Rev. Alice Hamilton Davies, are parents of a son and three daughters and the grandparents of six. They live in Maine.