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Bettering the health of the people : W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health movement

Title: Bettering the health of the people : W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health movement / William W. McLendon, Floyd W. Denny, Jr., William B. Blythe.
Author: McLendon, William W.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : In association with the Medical Foundation of North Carolina : Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, [2007], ©2007.

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xii, 477 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm

Summary

"W. Reece Berryhill, MD (1900-1979), was the founding dean of the MD-granting medical school and of today's medical school-hospitals complex at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His life story is inseparably linked with the story of the remarkable transformation in daily life, medical education, and health care in North Carolina during the twentieth century." "This story is a celebration of how in the 1940s and 1950s the state and its university mobilized its citizens and resources in a Good Health Movement to address the crucial need for "More Doctors" "More Hospitals" and "More Insurance." At the center of this story is the essential role played by Berryhill and many other public-spirited individuals who were committed to bettering the health of all the state's citizens. Finally, and most importantly, this story challenges citizens and leaders in the early twenty-first century to address the still unfinished business of the Good Health Movement - "More Insurance." The mid-century call for more doctors and hospitals was and is being addressed, but universal access to quality health care for all citizens regardless of their ability to pay has not yet been achieved. The situation is worsening almost daily and urgently requires attention. The story of the North Carolina Good Health Movement can serve as a model and an inspiration for addressing this critical societal need."--BOOK JACKET.

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Biography.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-458) and index.

Contents

The Dean of North Carolina Medicine -- Pt. I. Years of Preparation, 1900-1933 -- 1. A Childhood in the Rural South -- 2. Undergraduate, Teacher, and Medical Student -- 3. Harvard, UNC, and Western Reserve -- Pt. II. Physician, Teacher, and Dean: Chapel Hill, 1933-1952 -- 4. University Physician and Medical School Faculty Member -- 5. Dean of the Two-Year School of Medicine -- Pt. III. A University Medical Center for the People of North Carolina, 1941-1964 -- 6. The Poe Commission, the Sanger Report, and the Good Health Movement -- 7. Building and Recruiting -- 8. Dean of the Four-Year School of Medicine -- Pt. IV. Taking Medical Education to the Communities of North Carolina, 1964-1979 -- 9. Community Medical Education and the Final Years -- W. Reece Berryhill and North Carolina's Good Health Movement -- Appendix A. W. Reece Berryhill: Chronology and Honors -- Appendix B. Medical Schools in North Carolina, 1850-2000 -- Appendix C. Medical Schools in the United States, 1900-2000 -- Appendix D. North Carolina section in Abraham Flexner, Medical Education in the UnitedStates and Canada, 1910 -- Appendix E. Recommendations of the Committee of Physicians Presented to Governor J. Melville Broughton, January 1944 -- Appendix F. Proposed Four-Year Medical School: Detail of Salaries and Wages Estimates, Prepared by Dean W. Reece Berryhill, September 5, 1944 -- Appendix G. Reports of the North Carolina Hospital and Medical Care Commission (Poe Report), October 1944 and February 1945 -- Appendix H. Governor R. Gregg Cherry's Message to the General Assembly, February 1945; Members of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission appointed by Governor Cherry in 1945 -- Appendix I. Report to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission by the National Committee for the Medical School Survey (Sanger Report), July 1946 -- Appendix J. Minority Report of the National Committee for the Medical School Survey, July 1946 -- Appendix K. W. R. Berryhill, "The Location of a Medical School: Considerations in Favor of Locating a Medical School on a University Campus," Proceedings of theAnnual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure, Chicago, February 6 and 7, 1950 -- Appendix L. Historical Table of Organization of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1776-1977 -- Appendix M. Table of Organization of the UNC Health Care System, 2006 -- Appendix N. University of North Carolina Campus, 1940 -- Appendix O. University of North Carolina Campus, 1954 -- Appendix P. University of North Carolina Campus, 2007.

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9780807831953 (alk. paper)
0807831956 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007041467
40015023604

OCLC

174094376
ocn174094376
SCSB-5390042

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Columbia University Libraries