William Rush Dunton Jr.

Transformations in American medicine: from Benjamin Rush to William Osler

established New York University Medical School, who offered the Lyceum three rooms in the Medical School, a step which proved beneficial to both institutions. In the succeeding years several unsuccessful efforts were made to find larger accommodation. A fire in 1863 destroyed the Medical School building, causing the Lyceum to lose everything, including John James Audubon's collection of birds, ...

Celebrating the work of William T. Carpenter Jr.

Point of departure (a play about founding the profession).

Through a combination of recorded conversations, published speeches, and correspondence, insights are gained into some perspectives of William Rush Dunton, Jr., MD (1868-1966), one of the founders of the occupational therapy movement. His views on the spirit of research and the differentiation of occupational therapy and physical therapy are offered. His personal feelings about some of his cont...

More Than Just Race: A Response to William Darity, Jr. and Mark Gould

George Marion Boswell, Jr., MD: a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2002;15:275–288 George Boswell (Figure 1) was born near Grand Prairie, Texas, on May 12, 1920. He grew up in Texas, primarily in the Dallas area (Figures 2 and 3). After finishing high school at age 15, he went to McMurry College for 2 years and then transferred to Texas Tech University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1940. The following year he entered ...