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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
Abstract | Founded in 1953 as the History Club of the UNC School of Medicine, the Bullitt History of Medicine Club promotes the understanding and appreciation of the historical foundations upon which current medical knowledge and practice is constructed, by encouraging social and intellectual exchanges between faculty members, medical students, and members of the community. This collection contains administrative records and information about meetings of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club, including correspondence, procedures, and meeting announcements. Much of the correspondence is between Bullitt Club leadership and potential speakers and collaborators, including Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service author H. H. Cunningham; Leslie B. Adams, Jr.; E. K. Atkinson; Nicholas Dewey; Norman Harden; Ralph R. Landes; Roy McKnight; J. Lee Sedwitz; James Semans; and Robert T. Whitlock. Correspondents representing the University of North Carolina include: W. Reece Berryhill; Nancy G. Bruce; John Curnes; A. Price Heusner; Charles W. Hooker; Dorothy Long; Lawrence McHenry; William W. McLendon; Michael R. McVaugh; Alan Spanos; William H. Sprunt III; and Warner Wells. There is very little information about the club's activities during the 1990s. |
Creator | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine. Bullitt History of Medicine Club. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rare Book Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Dawne Lucas, May 2016
Encoded by: Dawne Lucas, May 2016, July 2019, September 2019
Updated by: Davia Webb and Laura Smith, April 2024
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The Bullitt History of Medicine Club promotes the understanding and appreciation of the historical foundations upon which current medical knowledge and practice is constructed, by encouraging social and intellectual exchanges between faculty members, medical students, and members of the community. The Bullitt Club holds several lecture meetings per year. All meetings are free and open to the public.
The club was founded in 1953 as the History Club of the UNC School of Medicine. The name changed to the James B. Bullitt History Club in 1958. A professor of pathology at UNC from 1913 to 1946, Dr. Bullitt was a consistent club attendee and was also popular with the medical students.
The first meetings of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club were held in the homes of various faculty members. As attendance grew, meetings were held in different places throughout the School of Medicine. Beginning in the 1970s, lectures began being held at the Health Sciences Library on a fairly consistent basis.
As interest in the history of medicine began to grow, the Trent History of Medicine Society at Duke also began to offer a series of monthly evening lectures, independent of the Bullitt Club series, and in the 2005/2006 academic year, the two organizations decided to collaborate, alternating the meeting location each month between the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library and the Duke Medical Library History of Medicine Collections.
Two years later the Bullitt Club noon lecture series was begun. The noon lectures were shorter, and were presented in months when the evening lecture was hosted at Duke.
Due to the success of the Bullitt Club noon lecture series, and concern that students would not want to return to campus for an evening lecture, the Bullitt Club made the decision to hold the majority of its 2012/2013 meetings during the day, rather than in the evening. In that same academic year the Trent History of Medicine Society chose to focus on sponsoring one major lecture each semester during the academic year, thus ending the jointly sponsored lecture series.
Back to TopThis collection contains administrative records and information about meetings of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club, including correspondence, procedures, and meeting announcements. Much of the correspondence is between Bullitt Club leadership and potential speakers and collaborators, including Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service author H. H. Cunningham; Leslie B. Adams, Jr.; E. K. Atkinson; Nicholas Dewey; Norman Harden; Ralph R. Landes; Roy McKnight; J. Lee Sedwitz; James Semans; and Robert T. Whitlock. Correspondents representing the University of North Carolina include: W. Reece Berryhill; Nancy G. Bruce; John Curnes; A. Price Heusner; Charles W. Hooker; Dorothy Long; Lawrence McHenry; William W. McLendon; Michael R. McVaugh; Alan Spanos; William H. Sprunt III; and Warner Wells. There is very little information about the club's activities during the 1990s.
Back to TopContains correspondence, steering committee meeting notes, and procedures for the Bullitt History of Medicine Club. Much of the correspondence is between Bullitt Club leadership and potential speakers and collaborators, including Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service author H. H. Cunningham; Leslie B. Adams, Jr.; E. K. Atkinson; Nicholas Dewey; Norman Harden; Ralph R. Landes; Roy McKnight; J. Lee Sedwitz; James Semans; and Robert T. Whitlock. Correspondents representing the University of North Carolina include: W. Reece Berryhill; Nancy G. Bruce; John Curnes; A. Price Heusner; Charles W. Hooker; Dorothy Long; Lawrence McHenry; William W. McLendon; Michael R. McVaugh; Alan Spanos; William H. Sprunt III; and Warner Wells.
Contains meeting schedules and announcments. The maps to meeting locations are hand-drawn, and were used to when meetings were held at the homes of various faculty members. Notes taken during the meetings by William W. McLendon, an early student leader of the club who later became chair of the Department of Hospital Laboratories at UNC Hospitals, are also included. The guestbook was used at meetings from 2010 to 2015. There is very little information about the club's activities during the 1990s.
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 20240109.1.
Contains information about Bullitt History of Medicine Club events, 2000-2016.