TY - JOUR
T1 - Chester R. Burns (1937–2006) and the origins of the American Osler Society
AU - Malloy, Michael H.
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The author thanks librarians and archivists at the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas; Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, both in Nashville, Tennessee, and The Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, for invaluable assistance. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - The American Osler Society (AOS) traces its origin to a 1970 symposium on Humanism in Medicine in Galveston, Texas. Although John P. McGovern (1921–2007) receives credit for conceiving the symposium and spearheading formation of the AOS, Chester Ray Burns (1937–2006) played a key role that has not been sufficiently recognized. Burns, the first American-born physician to receive a doctorate in the history of medicine from the Johns Hopkins University, did much and perhaps most of the organizational work and brought to the symposium a perspective on the crossroads between medicine and the humanities that proved essential to the nascent organization’s success. Burns went on to a productive career at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, became the 35th president of the AOS, and is among the relatively few physician-historians to have published scholarly articles in the history of medicine, medical biography, medical ethics, and philosophy as related to medicine.
AB - The American Osler Society (AOS) traces its origin to a 1970 symposium on Humanism in Medicine in Galveston, Texas. Although John P. McGovern (1921–2007) receives credit for conceiving the symposium and spearheading formation of the AOS, Chester Ray Burns (1937–2006) played a key role that has not been sufficiently recognized. Burns, the first American-born physician to receive a doctorate in the history of medicine from the Johns Hopkins University, did much and perhaps most of the organizational work and brought to the symposium a perspective on the crossroads between medicine and the humanities that proved essential to the nascent organization’s success. Burns went on to a productive career at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, became the 35th president of the AOS, and is among the relatively few physician-historians to have published scholarly articles in the history of medicine, medical biography, medical ethics, and philosophy as related to medicine.
KW - American Osler Society
KW - Chester Burns
KW - William Osler
KW - medical humanism
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U2 - 10.1177/0967772020939548
DO - 10.1177/0967772020939548
M3 - Article
C2 - 32633200
AN - SCOPUS:85087622825
SN - 0967-7720
VL - 30
SP - 46
EP - 50
JO - Journal of Medical Biography
JF - Journal of Medical Biography
IS - 1
ER -