Edgar Berman

Edgar F. Berman (August 6, 1915 – November 25, 1987) was an American surgeon and author. He is most remembered for his 1970 assertion that women were unable to hold leadership positions due to their "raging hormonal imbalances". In 1950, he implanted the first plastic esophagus into a person. In 1957, he performed a heart transplant for a dog. Following the comment he was forced to resign from his post on the Democratic National Committee's Committee on National Priorities.

Berman self-identified as a male chauvinist and wrote the 1982 book The Compleat Chauvinist: A Survival Guide for the Bedeviled Male. He considered the book to be revenge against "militant feminists", whom he referred to as "Steingreers" and "Steinzugs". In an interview with The New York Times that year, he said "The women all hate me, and the men all think I'm their leader."

Later life Berman served on the board of directors of the Public Welfare Foundation for 20 years.

Awards and honors One of Johns Hopkins' first endowed professorships, the Edgar Berman Professorship in International Health, is named after Berman.