Morrie Schwartz
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Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz (December 20, 1916 – November 4, 1995) was a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays With Morrie, which was published in 1997 and later made into a movie. Morrie Schwartz was a professor at Brandeis University. He was born 1916 in New York City. He taught sociology. To help avoid the draft for the Vietnam War, he gave all of his male students A's. He was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) in the summer of 1994. After the disease spread to his lungs he died in November 4, 1995. (TO LEARN MORE READ "TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE")
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- with Alfred H. Stanton: The Mental Hospital: A Study of Institutional Participation in Psychiatric Illness and Treatment. Basic Books 1954, ISBN 9781591476177 (2009 edition)
- with Charlotte Green Schwartz: Social Approaches to Mental Patient Care. Columbia University Press 1964
- with Emmy Lanning Shockley: The Nurse and the Mental Patient: a Study in Interpersonal Relations. Wiley 1966, ISBN 9780471766100
- Letting Go: Morrie's Reflections on Living While Dying. Walker & Company 1996, ISBN 9780802713155
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