Office of Medical History and Archives Publications

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The Office of Medical History and Archives (OMHA) collects and preserves materials that document the history of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA, USA. It also supports historical research, teaching, and other activities that highlight the history of UMass Chan and the history of American medicine and health care. Items in this collection include the history of the medical school published as an e-book, finding aids describing OMHA's archival collections, book reviews, images, and rare medical books. The digital collection is a work in progress.

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Robert W. Finberg Papers: A Finding Aid
(UMass Chan Medical School, 2024-10-01) Sjostedt, Kristine M.; Office of Medical History and Archives, Lamar Soutter Library
The Robert W. Finberg Papers chronicle Dr. Finberg’s career as a physician, researcher, teacher, and administrator at UMass Chan Medical School.
Sandy C. Marks Collection: A Finding Aid
(UMass Chan Medical School, 2024-10-01) Sjostedt, Kristine M.; Grasso, Lisa; Office of Medical History and Archives, Lamar Soutter Library
The Sandy C. Marks Collection chronicles Dr. Marks’s career as a faculty member at UMass Chan Medical School.
Anatomical Gift Program Collection: A Finding Aid
(UMass Chan Medical School, 2024-02-28) Sjostedt, Kristine M.; Office of Medical History and Archives, Lamar Soutter Library
The Anatomical Gift Program Collection consists of material created by the Department of Radiology, Division of Anatomy’s Anatomical Gift Program.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research
(Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2012-01-01) More, Ellen S.
When an all-male class of 16 students entered the new University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1970, they might well have wondered whether they were making a huge mistake. Undoubtedly they took an enormous risk. The entire school—faculty, students, staff, laboratories, offices and classrooms—was housed in a small converted warehouse. The faculty probably had their doubts as well. Not so Dr. Lamar Soutter, the school’s founding dean and guiding spirit. No matter how many times the state legislature threatened to withhold the school’s funding, or how many governors threatened to shut it down altogether, Soutter knew he could outlast them all. The University of Massachusetts Medical School, chartered in 1962 and opened in 1970, was one of a cohort of medical schools founded in response to fears of a physician shortage. In Massachusetts, this translated into a call for more opportunities for the state’s students to attend an affordable school where, it was hoped, they would deliver primary care to the people of their home state. Yet, Dean Soutter and the original faculty, most of whom were basic scientists recruited from Boston medical schools, were equally devoted to basic research and tertiary care medicine. This book tells the story of the school’s struggle, and eventual success in reconciling the demands of primary care education with world-class research. A revised version of this online history titled Beating the Odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a History, 1962-2012 (TidePool Press, 2017), is available in hard cover from the publisher, from Amazon, or at the UMMS book store. Author biography Ellen S. More, Ph.D., a historian of medicine, is Professor Emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Specializing in the history of the American medical profession, the history of women physicians, and the history of medical education, she was the founding head of the Office of Medical History and Archives, Lamar Soutter Library, at UMass Medical School. She is the author or editor of four books, including Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (Harvard), winner of the Rossiter Prize from the History of Science Society, Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (Johns Hopkins), co-edited with Elizabeth Fee and Manon Parry, winner of the Best Publication award from the Archivists and Librarians of the History of the Health Sciences, The Empathic Practitioner: Empathy, Gender, and Medicine (Rutgers), co-edited with Maureen Milligan, and Beating the Odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, a History, 1962-2012 (TidePool Press, 2017), a revised, corrected, and updated version of The University of Massachusetts Medical School: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research. More was also the Visiting Curator for the National Library of Medicine’s exhibition “Changing the Face of Medicine,” available online at https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/.
A system of anatomy for the use of students of medicine, v.1
(Carey & Lea, 1823-01-01) Wistar, Caspar; Horner, William E. (William Edmonds)
3rd edition. Commonly known as: Wistar's anatomy. Cited in: Cordasco. American 1820-1910, 20-0636. Signed by Dr. Denison, New York. Purchased from the Pittsburgh Academy of Medicine. Condition: Library copy has original cover but spine has been mended with black tape.
A system of anatomy for the use of students of medicine, v.2
(Carey & Lea, 1823-01-01) Wistar, Caspar; Horner, William E. (William Edmonds)
3rd edition. Commonly known as: Wistar's anatomy. Cited in: Cordasco. American 1820-1910, 20-0636. Purchased from the Pittsburgh Academy of Medicine. Condition: Library copy has original cover but spine has been mended with black tape.
James P. Loughlin, 1966
(1966-01-01)
James P. Loughlin was Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts State Labor Council, AFL-CIO from 1962-1979. He is credited by many people as being influential in locating the University of Massachusetts Medical School and its affiliated hospital in Worcester, Mass.
Samuel Thompson, Ph.D., 1988
(1988-01-01)
Samuel Thompson, Ph.D., was the Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Relations, Planning and Development and Associate Dean for Administration and Finance at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1977- 1992. This photo was taken for the university's 1988 yearbook.
H. Brownell Wheeler, M.D., 1980
(1980-01-01)
H. Brownell Wheeler, M.D., a vascular surgeon, educator, administrator, end-of-life care advocate, and inventor, was the first faculty member and first department chair to be hired by the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Wheeler was the Founding Chair of the Department of Surgery. This photo was taken for the university's 1980 yearbook.
University of Massachusetts Medical School Class of 1975
(1975-01-01)
Portraits of the members of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Class of 1975: Claudio M. Delise, William T. Edwards, John J. Zajac, Anita M. Karcz, Jennifer H. Caskey, Lawrence G. Kidd, Frederick K. Poulin Jr., Peter P. Anas, James D. Sousa, Stanley M. Cole, Margaret A. Hatch, Paul W. Sweeney, Susan H. Hou, William B. Holgerson, Erica E. Johnson, Lawrence M. Newman, Dennis J. Arinella, William D. Sullivan, Daniel A. Bluestein, Debra L. Brand, Theodora Christopher, Audrey E. Griesbach, David F. Racicot, Dustan C. Osborn.
Graduate School of Nursing students in lab workshop, 1994
(1994-01-01)
Groundbreaking on October 23, 1969
(1969-10-23)
Groundbreaking ceremony at the University of Massachusetts Medical School on October 23, 1969. Kneeling, l. to r.: Senator John J. Conte, Rep. Joseph D. Early, Dr. Lamar Soutter, Rep. Charles T. Tagman, Sen. Philip A. Quinn Standing: l. to r.: Rep. J. Edmond Harris, Rep. Albert L. Nash, Rep. Charles F. Engdahl, Rep. Thomas F. Farrell, Rep. Theodore M. Herman, Rep. C. Vincent Shea, Sen. Daniel J. Foley, Rep. Anthony G. Grosso
Robert E. Tranquada, M.D., 1986
(1986-01-01)
Robert E. Tranquada, M.D., was Chancellor and Dean of the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1979 – 1986. This photo was taken for the university's 1986 yearbook.
University of Massachusetts Medical School Class of 1974
(1974-01-01)
Head shots of the members of the Class of 1974, the first class to graduate from the University of Massachusetts Medical School: Donald W. Abbott, Richard V. Aghababian, William W. Estabrook, Leonard M. Finn, Donald J. Gentile, P. David Jarry, Dana G. Killam, Kenneth M. Kornetsky, James L. McGuire, Robert G. Oppenheimer, Jonathan S. Rothman, Armen L. Roupenian, Paul D. Sabel, A. Robert Schell, Gary G. Winzelberg, John V. Young Jr.
Early architectural drawing of UMass Medical School campus
(1968-01-01)
Architectural drawing of Medical School and teaching hospital, 1968.
Graduate School of Nursing Class of 1992
(1992-01-01)
Black and white photograph of the Graduate School of Nursing Class of 1992 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass.
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures in America Since 1915 (Book Review)
(2008-01-01) Fenigsohn, Harvey; Lamar Soutter Library
Book review of: Martin S. Pernick, The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures in America Since 1915, Oxford University Press, 1996. Reviewed by Harvey Fenigsohn.
The Scalpel and The Silver Bear (Book Review)
(2008-01-01) Fenigsohn, Harvey; Lamar Soutter Library
Book review of: Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, The Scalpel and The Silver Bear, Bantam Books, 2000. Reviewed by Harvey Fenigsohn.
Walking Out on the Boys (Book Review)
(2008-01-01) Fenigsohn, Harvey; Lamar Soutter Library
Book review of: Frances K. Conley, M.D. Walking Out on the Boys, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Reviewed by Harvey Fenigsohn.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Book Review)
(2011-11-01) Fenigsohn, Harvey; Lamar Soutter Library
Book review of: Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (W.W. Norton & Company), 1997. Reviewed November 2011 by Harvey Fenigsohn.

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