Bibliography / Related resources

Secondary resources

"Dr. Wilder Penfield." Maclean's, (18 Feb. 1956):

Eccles, John and William Feindel. "Wilder Graves Penfield. 26 January 1891-5 April 1976." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 24, (Nov. 1978): 472-513.

Feindel, William. Images of the Neuro. Ed. Elizabeth Maloney. Montreal: Montreal Neurological Institute, 2013.

Feindel, William. "Osler and the 'medico-chirurgical neurologists': Horsley, Cushing, and Penfield." Journal of Neurosurgery 99, no. 1 (2003): 188-99.

Feindel, William. "Wilder Penfield (1891-1976): The Man and His Work." Neurosurgery 1, no. 2 (1977): 93-100.

Feindel, William and Mark C. Preul. "Origins of Wilder Penfield's surgical technique The role of the 'Cushing ritual' and influences from the European experience." Journal of Neurosurgery 75, no. 5 (1991): 812-20.

Lewis, Jefferson. Something Hidden: A Biography of Wilder Penfield. Toronto: Doubleday, 1981.

McCleery, William. "An informal call on William Penfield, 'greatest living Canadian'." Princeton Alumni Weekly 66 (15 Mar. 1966): 27-33.

Penfield, Wilder. No Man Alone: A Neurosurgeon's Life. Boston: Little Brown, 1977.

Wiens, Carol, editor. Dr. Wilder Penfield’s bibliography. Montreal: MNI & Montreal Neurological Hospital Library, 2006.


Archival collections

Wilder Penfield Fonds, P142, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University.

Jefferson Lewis Collection, P190, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University.