# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-s-mendelsohn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:11:53.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-s-mendelsohn"
name: "Robert S. Mendelsohn"
slug: "robert-s-mendelsohn"
description: "Robert S. Mendelsohn was an American pediatrician, anti-vaccinationist and critic of medical paternalism. He denounced unnecessary hysterectomies, radical mastectomies, and dangerous medications, reminding his readers of public health failures such as the 1976 swine flu outbreak and the damage caused to daughters of women who took the drug diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy. He portrayed doctors as powerful priests of a primitive religion, with dishonesty as its central ethic. His mild manner appealed to the public, while his message infuriated his medical colleagues."
tagline: "American pediatrician (1926-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_S._Mendelsohn_Headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-07-13"
deathDate: "1988-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.956373333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump