California Osteopathic Association records, 1954-1965.

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California Osteopathic Association records, 1954-1965.

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Collection contains correspondence, clippings, subject files, other printed material, and publications of the California Osteopathic Association. Includes material concerning the merger of the Association with the California Medical Association in 1962. Also contains materials of the American Osteopathic Association, and the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California.

5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7414191

University of California, Los Angeles

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American Osteopathic Association

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Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California.

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California Osteopathic Association

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Marsh, Dorothy, 1907-

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Dorothy Marsh was president of the California Osteopathic Association (COA) during the time it merged with the California Medical Association in 1962; before 1961, when the organization agreed to the merger, the osteopathic profession constituted 10% of the physicians and surgeons in California, and provided care for approximately 15% of the state's population; the doctors of osteopathy not accepting the merger formed an independent organization called the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of ...