RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
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The path of Dr. Michael Bartalos wound through several countries and through a variety of living and work environments. |
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He was born in Bratislava (Pozsony in Hungarian), in Slovakia to a Hungarian physician father, Dr. Mihaly Bartalos and an |
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artistically gifted Slovak teacher and nurse, Roza Karola Knazovicka a.k.a. Rozalia Knyazoviczky. |
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He grew up in Hungary, began medical training at the university of Budapest in 1953 and spent some time in France before |
| resuming his medical studies at the University of Heidelberg. Since 1960 he has been a resident of the United States. |
| He spent three and a half years in postgraduate training in the United States at the Johns Hopkins University's School |
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of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and did residency in internal medicine at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, |
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also in Baltimore. |
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He thought at Howard University before, in 1971, joining the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physician and Surgeons. |
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He has remained in New York City ever since. |
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His thirst for knowledge led him to study and contribute to diverse disciplines. While Dr. Bartalos' formal training was in the |
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fields of internal medicine and medical genetics, he held appointments in the Departments of Radiology, Surgery, Pathology, |
| Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Human Genetics and Development at various teaching hospitals. |
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His scientific writings appeared in the United States, England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Finland and Holland. |
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| In medicine his research activities encompassed the fields of radiobiology, biochemistry, dermatoglyphics, cytogenetics, |
| biochemical genetics, clinical genetics, internal medicine and history of medicine. He described two new genetic diseases. |
| One, which he reported at the age of 32 - (appeared in print in 1968) - is now referred to as Ectodermal dysplasia Bartalos type. |
| While still in his early thirties he published two widely used books, Medical Cytogenetics and Genetics in Medical Practice. |
| The former was also translated into Spanish and published by the University of Buenos Aires Press. |
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Outside of medicine his writings dealt with subjects in philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, politics, thanatology, |
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and law. |
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In the past decades Dr. Bartalos’ intellectual interests has been focused on the interrelation of philosophy, psychology and |
| sociology as determinants of human action. He gave the name Zetetics, meaning earnest search in Greek, to his construction |
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of an overarching theoretical framework encompassing special brands of philosophy ("Contextual Individualism"), psychology |
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("Adaptive Psychology") and sociology ("Surbiosis"). |
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For several years he also belonged to the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, an organization of medical and legal professionals |
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where he served in the capacities of secretary, vice president, president and trustee. |
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During the past ten years he added the phenomena of gender identity disturbances and intersexuality to his professional |
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interests. These entities attracted his interest because of their unique psychological, genetic, medical, surgical, legal and |
| sociological implications and have the potential to increase our understanding of such concepts as personhood, identity, |
| gender perception and gender role. |
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