The Gaze

"The sovereign power of the empirical gaze."  Or so says Foucault.  One of the kinds of 'evidence' from practice is the list I posted last, that there are a plethora of diseases, syndromes, and otherwise unpleasant conditions named after doctors (MDs and PhDs) and few 'cures' so named.  Some procedures, but nothing like the pantheon of eponymous disease.  Foucault's proposition, that clinical medicine emerged from the transition from metaphor to mapping (my short-hand) would suggest exactly that, the definition of the condition, the generalization of the gaze within the discipline of clinical medicine, would yield the highest accolade, a 'naming,' like the discoverer of a new celestial object.   The 'fact' therein is that the object is just that, objective.  But, the crux of the matter for Foucault, clinical medicine and most of us cats, is that there is a subjective experience of that 'objective' disease that will, in all cases, differ from the object.  I know, that is too dense and ineffective a sentence, even if I believe accurate.  So, for the celestial example, it is as if all observers (nee, clinicians) had a different view of the object, so essentially the 'celestial body' became an ensemble of all views, a composite object of observations, e.i. non-objective.  That is compounded in the clinic in that every 'disease' is literally personified, as if a meteor had a consciousness that both observed its own condition and that of those who observed it, in a kind of post-modern recursion (as much as I hate that). Every human affliction is a unique experience with a completely non-linear trajectory.  But the clinic is not capable of enveloping that uniqueness, as it is simply the expression of an 'empirical gaze.'  Fairly clear why our admonishments and initiatives in health care cannot be effective.  But the nature of the 'gaze' precludes the mirror.

By anyother name...

Why are diseases named for doctors, but aside from the Heimlich maneuver, not too many cures or treatments?

From wikipedia:

A

• Aarskog-Scott syndrome – Dagfinn Aarskog, Charles Scott
• Aase-Smith syndrome – Jon Morton Aase, David Weyhe Smith
• Abdallat Davis Farrage syndrome – Adnan Al Abdallat, S.M. Davis, James Robert Farrage
• Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome – Emil Abderhalden, Eduard Kauffman, George Lignac
• Abercrombie disease – John Abercrombie
• Achard-Thiers syndrome – Emile Achard, Joseph Thiers
• Ackerman tumor – Lauren Ackerman
• Addison disease – Thomas Addison
• Adson-Caffey syndrome – Alfred Adson, I.R. Caffey
• Aicardi syndrome – Jean Aicardi
• Alagille syndrome – Daniel Alagille
• Albers-Schönberg disease – Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
• Albright syndrome – Fuller Albright
• Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease – Fuller Albright, Allan Macy Butler, Esther Bloomberg
• Albright-Hadorn syndrome – Fuller Albright, Walter Hadorn
• Alexander disease – William Stuart Alexander
• Alpers disease – Bernard Jacob Alpers
• Alport syndrome – Arthur Cecil Alport
• Alström syndrome – Carl Henry Alström
• Alzheimer disease – Alois Alzheimer
• Anders disease – James Meschter Anders
• Andersen disease – Dorothy Andersen
• Anderson-Fabry disease – William Anderson, Johannes Fabry
• Angelman syndrome – Harry Angelman
• Angelucci syndrome – Arnaldo Angelucci
• Anton–Babinski syndrome – Gabriel Anton, Joseph Babinski
• Apert syndrome – Eugène Apert
• Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy – François-Amilcar Aran, Guillaume Duchenne
• Armanni-Ebstein nephropathy – Luciano Armanni, Wilhelm Ebstein
• Arnold-Chiari malformation – Julius Arnold, Hans Chiari
• Arthus phenomenon – Nicolas Maurice Arthus
• Asherman syndrome – Joseph G. Asherman
• Asperger syndrome – Hans Asperger
• Avellis syndrome – Georg Avellis
• Ayerza syndrome – Abel Ayerza
• Ayerza-Arrillaga syndrome – Abel Ayerza, Francisco Arrillaga

[edit] B

• Babington disease – Benjamin Babington
• Babinski-Fröhlich syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Alfred Fröhlich
• Babinski-Froment syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Jules Froment
• Babinski-Nageotte syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Jean Nageotte
• Baker cyst – William Morrant Baker
• Baló's disease or Balo concentric sclerosis – József Baló
• Bamberger disease – Heinrich von Bamberger
• Bamberger-Marie disease – Eugen von Bamberger, Pierre Marie
• Bancroft filariasis – Joseph Bancroft
• Bang's disease – Bernhard Bang
• Bankart lesion – Arthur Bankart
• Banti's disease – Guido Banti
• Bárány syndrome – Robert Bárány
• Barlow disease – Thomas Barlow
• Barlow syndrome – John Barlow
• Barraquer-Simons syndrome – Luis Barraquer Roviralta, Arthur Simons
• Barré-Liéou syndrome – Jean Alexandre Barré, Yang-Choen Liéou
• Barrett's ulcer – Norman Barrett
• Bart-Pumphrey syndrome – R.S. Bart, R.E. Pumphrey
• Bartholin cyst – Caspar Bartholin
• Bartter syndrome – Frederic Bartter
• Basedow disease – Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Basedow syndrome – Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome – Frank Bassen, Abraham Kornzweig
• Batten disease – Frederick Batten
• Bazin disease – Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin
• Becker muscular dystrophy – Peter Emil Becker
• Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome – John Bruce Beckwith, Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann
• Behçet disease – Hulusi Behçet
• Bekhterev disease – Vladimir Bekhterev
• Bell palsy – Charles Bell
• Benedikt syndrome – Moritz Benedikt
• Benjamin syndrome – E. Benjamin
• Berger's disease – Jean Berger
• Bergeron disease – Etienne-Jules Bergeron
• Bernard syndrome – Claude Bernard
• Bernard-Soulier syndrome – Jean Bernard, Jean Pierre Soulier
• Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia – Martin Bernhardt, Vladimir Karlovich Roth
• Bernheim syndrome – Hippolyte Bernheim
• Besnier prurigo – Ernest Henri Besnier
• Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease – Ernest Henri Besnier, Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck, Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann
• Biermer anaemia – Michael Anton Biermer
• Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis – Edwin Bickerstaff
• Bilharzia – Theodor Maximilian Bilharz
• Bing-Neel syndrome – Jens Bing, Axel Valdemar Neel
• Binswanger dementia – Otto Binswanger
• Bland-White-Garland syndrome – Edward Franklin Bland, Paul Dudley White, Joseph Garland
• Bloom syndrome – David Bloom
• Blount syndrome – Walter Putnam Blount
• Boerhaave syndrome – Herman Boerhaave
• Bogorad syndrome – F.A. Bogorad
• Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome – Kristine Bonnevie, Otto Ullrich
• Bourneville-Pringle disease – Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, John James Pringle
• Bowen disease – John T. Bowen
• Brailsford-Morquio syndrome – James Frederick Brailsford, Luís Morquio
• Brandt syndrome – Thore Edvard Brandt
• Brenner tumour – Fritz Brenner
• Brewer kidney – George Emerson Brewer
• Bright disease – Richard Bright
• Brill-Symmers disease – Nathan Brill, Douglas Symmers
• Brill-Zinsser disease – Nathan Brill, Hans Zinsser
• Briquet syndrome – Paul Briquet
• Brissaud disease – Édouard Brissaud
• Brissaud-Sicard syndrome – Édouard Brissaud, Jean-Athanase Sicard
• Broadbent apoplexy – William Broadbent
• Brock syndrome – Russell Claude Brock
• Brodie abscess – Benjamin Collins Brodie
• Brodie syndrome – Benjamin Collins Brodie
• Brooke epithelioma – Henry Ambrose Grundy Brooke
• Brown-Séquard syndrome – Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
• Brucellosis – David Bruce
• Brugada syndrome – the Brugada brothers
• Bruns syndrome – Ludwig Bruns
• Bruton-Gitlin syndrome – Ogden Carr Bruton, David Gitlin
• Budd-Chiari syndrome – George Budd, Hans Chiari
• Buerger disease – Leo Buerger
• Bumpke syndrome – Oswald Conrad Edouard Bumke
• Bürger-Grütz syndrome – Max Burger, Otto Grutz
• Burkitt lymphoma – Denis Parsons Burkitt
• Burnett syndrome – Charles Hoyt Burnett
• Bywaters syndrome – Eric Bywaters

[edit] C

• Caffey-Silverman syndrome – John Patrick Caffey, William Aaron Silverman
• Calvé disease – Jacques Calvé
• Canavan disease – Myrtelle Canavan
• Cannon syndrome – Walter Cannon
• Capgras syndrome – Joseph Capgras
• Caplan's syndrome – Anthony Caplan
• Caroli syndrome – Jacques Caroli
• Carrión's disease – Daniel Alcides Carrión
• Castleman disease – Benjamin Castleman
• Céstan-Chenais syndrome – Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan, Louis Jean Chennais
• Chagas disease – Carlos Chagas
• Charcot's disease – Jean-Martin Charcot
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease – Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, Howard Henry Tooth
• Cheadle's disease – Walter Butler Cheadle
• Chédiak-Higashi syndrome – Alexander Chédiak, Otokata Higashi
• Chiari-Frommel syndrome – Johann Baptist Chiari, Richard Frommel
• Chilaiditi syndrome – Demetrius Chilaiditi
• Christ-Siemens-Touraine Syndrome – Josef Christ, Hermann Werner Siemens, Albert Touraine
• Christensen-Krabbe disease – Erna Christensen, Knud Krabbe
• Christmas disease – Stephen Christmas
• Churg-Strauss syndrome – Jacob Churg, Lotte Straus
• Claude syndrome – Henri Claude
• Clerambault syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault
• Clerambault-Kandinsky syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault, Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky
• Coats disease – George Coats
• Cock peculiar tumor – Edward Cock
• Cockayne syndrome – Edward Alfred Cockayne
• Cogan's syndrome – David Glendenning Cogan
• Collet-Sicard syndrome – Frédéric Justin Collet, Jean-Athanase Sicard
• Concato disease – Luigi Maria Concato
• Conn's Syndrome – Jerome Conn
• Cooley's anemia – Thomas Benton Cooley
• Cori Disease – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori
• Cornelia de Lange syndrome – Cornelia Catharina de Lange
• Cotard's Syndrome – Jules Cotard
• Costen syndrome – James Bray Costen
• Crigler-Najjar syndrome – John Fielding Crigler, Victor Assad Najjar
• Crocq-Cassirer syndrome – Jean Crocq, Richard Cassirer
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Alfons Maria Jakob
• Crohn's disease – Burrill Bernard Crohn
• Cronkite-Canada syndrome – L.W. Cronkite, Wilma Canada
• Crouzon syndrome – Octave Crouzon
• Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease – Jean Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten
• Cruz disease – Osvaldo Gonçalves Cruz
• Curling's ulcer – Thomas Blizard Curling
• Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome – Hans Curschmann, Frederick Batten, Hans Gustav Steinhart
• Cushing's disease – Harvey Cushing

[edit] D

• Da Costa syndrome – Jacob Mendez Da Costa
• Dalrymple disease – John Dalrymple
• Danbolt-Closs syndrome – Niels Christian Gauslaa Danbolt, Karl Philipp Closs
• Dandy-Walker syndrome
• De Clérambault's syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
• de Quervain's disease – Fritz de Quervain
• de Quervain's thyroiditis – Fritz de Quervain
• Dejerine-Sottas disease – Joseph Jules Dejerine, Jules Sottas
• Dennie-Marfan syndrome – Charles Clayton Dennie, Antoine Marfan
• Dent's disease – C. E. Dent
• Denys-Drash syndrome –
• Dercum's disease – Francis Xavier Dercum
• Devic's disease – Eugène Devic
• DiGeorge syndrome – Angelo DiGeorge
• Di Guglielmo's disease – Giovanni di Gugliemo
• Donovanosis – Charles Donovan
• Down syndrome – John Langdon Down
• Dressler's syndrome – Lucas Dressler
• Duane syndrome – Alexander Duane
• Dubin–Johnson syndrome
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy – Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
• Duke's disease – Clement Dukes
• Duncan's disease –
• Duncan's syndrome
• Dupuytren's contracture – Baron Guillaume Dupuytren
• Duroziez's disease – Paul Louis Duroziez

[edit] E

• Eales disease – Henry Eales
• Edwards syndrome – John H. Edwards
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome – Edvard Ehlers, Henri-Alexandre Danlos
• Ehrlichiosis – Paul Ehrlich
• Ekbom's Syndrome – Karl Axel Ekborn
• Erdheim-Chester disease – Jakob Erdheim, William Chester
• Escherichia coli– Theodor Escherich

[edit] F

• Fabry disease – Johannes Fabry
• Fanconi anemia – Guido Fanconi
• Fanconi syndrome – Guido Fanconi
• Farber disease – Sidney Farber
• Felty's syndrome – Augustus Roi Felty
• Fitz-Hugh–Curtis syndrome – Thomas Fitz-Hugh Jr, Arthur Hale Curtis
• Foix-Alajouanine disease – Charles Foix, Théophile Alajouanine
• Fournier gangrene – Jean Alfred Fournier
• Forbe's Disease – Gilbert Burnett Forbes
• Friedreich's ataxia – Nikolaus Friedreich
• Fuchs' dystrophy – Ernst Fuchs

[edit] G

• Ganser syndrome – Sigbert Ganser
• Gaucher's disease – Philippe Gaucher
• Ghon focus – Anton Ghon
• Gilbert syndrome – Augustin Nicolas Gilbert, French gastroenterologist
• Graves' disease – Robert James Graves
• Graves-Basedow disease – Robert James Graves, Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Grawitz tumor (nephrocellular carcinoma) – Paul Albert Grawitz, German pathologist
• Grinker myelinopathy
• Guillain-Barré syndrome – Georges Guillain, Jean Alexandre Barré
• Gunther's disease – Hans Gunther
• Glanzmann's thrombasthenia – Eduard Glanzmann
• Gorlin-Goltz syndrome – Robert J. Gorlin, Robert W. Goltz

[edit] H

• Hailey-Hailey disease – Hugh Edward Hailey, William Howard Hailey
• Hallervorden-Spatz disease – Julius Hallervorden, Hugo Spatz
• Hand-Schüller-Christian disease – Alfred Hand, Artur Schüller, Henry Asbury Christian
• Hansen's disease – Gerhard Armauer Hansen
• Hardikar Syndrome – Winita Hardikar
• Hartnup disease –
• Hashimoto thyroiditis – Hashimoto Hakaru
• Henoch-Schönlein purpura – Eduard Heinrich Henoch, Johann Lukas Schönlein
• Heyde's syndrome – Edward C. Heyde
• Hirschsprung disease – Harald Hirschsprung, Danish physician
• Hodgkin disease, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma – Thomas Hodgkin
• Horton headache – Bayard Taylor Horton
• Huntington's disease – George Huntington

[edit] J

• Jaeken's disease – Jaak Jaeken
• Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease – Alfons Maria Jakob, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt

[edit] K

• Kahler's disease – Otto Kahler
• Kanner syndrome – Leo Kanner (this name is rarely used now)
• Kaposi sarcoma – Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist
• Kashin-Beck disease – Nicolai Ivanowich Kashin, Evgeny Vladimirovich Bek, Russian military physicians
• Kawasaki disease – Tomisaku Kawasaki
• Kearns-Sayre syndrome – Thomas P. Kearns, George Pomeroy Sayre
• Kenny syndrome – Frederic Marshal Kenny
• Kienbock's disease – Robert Kienböck, Austrian radiologist
• Kikuchi's disease – Masahiro Kikuchi, Y.Fujimoto
• Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease – Paul Kimmelstiel, Clifford Wilson
• Kimura's disease – T. Kimura
• King-Kopetzky syndrome – P.F.King, Samuel J. Kopetzky
• Kinsbourne syndrome – Marcel Kinsbourne, Austrian neurologist.
• Kjer's optic neuropathy – Poul Kjer, Danish ophthalmologist
• Klatskin's tumor – Gerald Klatskin
• Klinefelter's syndrome – Harry Klinefelter
• Klüver-Bucy syndrome – Heinrich Klüver, Paul Bucy
• Köhler disease – Alban Köhler, German radiologist.
• Korsakoff syndrome – Sergei Korsakof, neuropsychiatrist
• Krabbe's disease – Knud Haraldsen Krabbe, Danish neurologist
• Krukenberg tumor – Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg, German physician
• Kugelberg-Welander disease – Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander

[edit] L

• Lafora's disease – Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora, a Spanish neuropathologist
• Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé and Georg Perthes
• Leigh's disease – Denis Archibald Leigh, British psychiatrist
• Leiner syndrome – Karl Leiner, André Moussous
• Leishmaniasis – Sir William Boog Leishman
• Lemierre's syndrome – André Lemierre
• Lenègre's disease – Jean Lenègre
• Lesch-Nyhan syndrome – Michael Lesch, William Leo Nyhan, a pediatrician
• Letterer-Siwe disease – Erich Letterer, Sture Siwe
• Lev's disease – Maurice Lev, Jean Lenègre
• Libman-Sacks disease – Emanuel Libman, Benjamin Sacks
• Lobomycosis – Jorge Lobo, Brazilian dermatologist
• Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis – Wilhelm Löffler
• Ludwig's angina – Wilhelm Friedrich von Ludwig, German physician
• Lynch syndrome – Henry T. Lynch

[edit] M

• Machado-Joseph disease (Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3) –
• Marie-Foix-Alajouanine syndrome – Pierre Marie, Charles Foix, Théophile Alajouanine
• Maladie de Charcot, French name for Motor Neurone Disease – Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist
• Mallory-Weiss syndrome – G. Kenneth Mallory and Soma Weiss
• Mansonellosis – Sir Patrick Manson
• Marburg multiple sclerosis – Otto Marburg
• Marfan syndrome – - Antoine Marfan, French pediatrician.
• Marshall-Smith syndrome – Richard E. Marshall and David Weyhe Smith
• McArdle's Disease – Brian McArdle
• McCune-Albright syndrome – Donovan James McCune and Fuller Albright
• Meig's syndrome – Joe Vincent Meigs
• Ménétrier's disease – Pierre Eugène Ménétrier, French physician
• Ménière’s disease – Prosper Ménière
• Menkes disease – John Hans Menkes
• Mondor's disease – Henri Mondor, French surgeon.
• Monge's disease – Carlos Monge
• Mucha-Habermann disease –

[edit] N

• Noonan syndrome – Jacqueline Noonan

[edit] O

• Ormond disease – John Kelso Ormond
• Osgood-Schlatter disease – Robert Bayley Osgood, Carl B. Schlatter
• Osler-Weber-Rendu – Sir William Osler, Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu and Frederick Parkes Weber

[edit] P

• Paget's disease of bone (* Paget's disease) – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Paget's disease of the breast (* Paget's disease of the nipple) – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Paget's disease of the penis – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Parkinson's disease – James Parkinson –
• Patau syndrome – Klaus Patau
• Pelizeus-Merzbacher disease – Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus and Ludwig Merzbacher
• Perthes syndrome – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé and Georg Perthes
• Peyronie's disease – François Gigot de la Peyronie
• Pick's disease – Arnold Pick
• Pickardt syndrome –
• Plummer's disease – Henry Stanley Plummer
• Poland's syndrome – Sir Alfred Poland
• Pompe's disease – Johann Cassianius Pompe
• Pott's disease – Percivall Pott
• Pott's Puffy Tumor – Percivall Pott
• Potter sequence – Edith Potter
• Prader-Willi syndrome – Andrea Prader, (Alexis Labhart) and Heinrich Willi
• Prinzmetal angina – Myron Prinzmetal

[edit] R

• Ramsay Hunt syndrome – James Ramsay Hunt, American neurologist
• Raynaud's disease – Maurice Raynaud, French physician
• Refsum's disease – Sigvald Bernhard Refsum, Norwegian neurologist
• Reiter's syndrome – Hans Conrad Julius Reiter, German physician
• Rett Syndrome – Andreas Rett, Austrian pediatrician
• Reye's syndrome – R. Douglas Reye
• Rickettsiosis – Howard Taylor Ricketts
• Riggs' disease – John M. Riggs (dentist)
• Riley-Day syndrome – Conrad Milton Riley, Richard Lawrence Day
• Ritter's disease – Baron Gottfried Ritter von Rittershain
• Robles Disease [1] (Onchocercosis [2]) – Rodolfo Robles, Guatemalan physician
• Roger's disease – Henri Louis Roger
• Rotor syndrome – Arturo Belleza Rotor, Filipino internist
• Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome – Jack Herbert Rubinstein, Hooshang Taybi

[edit] S

• Salmonella – Daniel Elmer Salmon
• Sandhoff disease – Konrad Sandhoff
• Schamberg's disease – Jay Frank Schamberg
• Schilder's disease – Paul Ferdinand Schilder
• Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome – Albert Schinzel, Andreas Giedion
• Seligmann's disease – Maxime Seligmann
• Sever's disease – J.W.Sever
• Sheehan's syndrome – Harold Leeming Sheehan
• Silver-Russell syndrome – Henry Silver, Alexander Russell
• Simmond's Disease – Moritz Simmonds
• Sjogren's syndrome – Henrik Sjögren, Swedish ophthalmologist
• Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome –
• Stevens-Johnson syndrome – Albert Mason Stevens, Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians
• Sturge-Weber disease – William Allen Sturge, Frederick Parkes Weber
• Still's disease – Sir George Frederick Still
• Susac's syndrome – John Susac

[edit] T

• Takayasu's arteritis – Mikito Takayasu, Japanese ophthalmologist
• Tay-Sachs disease – Warren Tay, Bernard Sachs
• Theileriosis – Sir Arnold Theiler
• Thomsen's disease – Julius Thomsen, Danish physician,
• Tietz syndrome – W.Tietz
• Tietze's syndrome – Alexander Tietze
• Tourette syndrome – Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette
• Treacher Collins syndrome (Mandibulofacial dysostosis) – Edward Treacher Collins
• Turcot syndrome – Jacques Turcot
• Turner's syndrome – Henry Turner

[edit] U

• Unverricht-Lundborg disease – Heinrich Unverricht, Herman Bernhard Lundborg
• Usher syndrome – Charles Usher

[edit] V

• Vincent's angina – Henri Vincent, French physician
• Virchow's syndrome – Rudolf Virchow, German physician
• Von Gierke's disease – Edgar von Gierke
• Von Hippel-Lindau disease – Eugen von Hippel; Arvid Vilhelm Lindau, Swedish pathologist
• Von Recklinghausen's disease (* neurofibromatosis) – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
• Von Willebrand's disease – Erik Adolf von Willebrand

[edit] W

• Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia – Jan G. Waldenström, Swedish physician
• Warkany syndrome (trisomy) – Joseph Warkany, American human geneticist and pediatrician
• Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome – Rupert Waterhouse, an English physician, Carl Friderichsen, a Danish pediatrician
• Weber-Christian disease – Frederick Parkes Weber, Henry Asbury Christian
• Wegener's granulomatosis – Friedrich Wegener
• Weil's disease – Adolf Weil
• Wells syndrome – George Wells
• Werner's syndrome – Otto Werner, German scientist
• Wernicke's encephalopathy – Karl Wernicke
• Whipple's disease – George Hoyt Whipple
• Williams syndrome – J. C. P. Willams, New Zealand cardiologist
• Wilms' tumor – Max Wilms, German surgeon
• Wilson's disease – Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome – Alfred Wiskott, Robert Aldrich
• Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease – Karl Gunnar Vilhelm Wohlfart, Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander
• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Louis Wolff, Sir John Parkinson (physician), Paul Dudley White
• Wolman disease – Moshe Wolman

[edit] X Y Z

• Zellweger syndrome – Hans Zellweger
• Zieve's syndrome – Leslie Zieve
• Zollinger-Ellison syndrome – Robert Zollinger, Edwin Ellison, American surgeons