Warren L. Bostick papers, 1932 - 1990, 1961 - 1979.

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Warren L. Bostick papers, 1932 - 1990, 1961 - 1979.

This collection comprises materials accumulated by Dr. Warren L. Bostick during his tenure as Dean of the California College of Medicine and the University of California, Irvine/California College of Medicine. While the bulk of the materials are from the time of Bostick's deanship from 1964-1973, the collection also includes some personal materials from 1932-1990. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, a complete curriculum vitae of Dr. Bostick (in one volume), and a three volume work College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Faculty Leaders 1st 25 Years, containing curriculum vitae and photos of deans, vice chancellors, and department chairmen from 1964-1989. This collection provides an insider's view of the history of the California College of Medicine as well as biographical information on Dr. Bostick himself. Materials in this collection also cover osteopathy in California and other states, the merger of the California Osteopathic Association and the California Medical Association, and the social and political problems involved in moving a school to another location

4.8 Linear feet (6 boxes)

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University of California, Irvine. College of Medicine

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Online Archive of California

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California College of Medicine

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Before it became part of the University of California, Irvine (UCI), the UCI College of Medicine went through several incarnations as a school of osteopathy. Osteopathy splintered from mainstream (or allopathic) medicine in the mid-nineteenth century in a climate of poor, commercially driven medical education and the proliferation of dangerous and ineffective medical practices such as blood-letting and the prescription of calomel and emetics. The first osteopaths were opposed to the use of any d...

Bostick, Warren L.

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Biography Warren L. Bostick was born on July 28, 1914 in Dallas, Texas. He received his M.D. degree at the University of California, San Francisco in 1940. As president of the California Medical Association in 1961-1962, he was active in gaining recognition from the state legislature for osteopathic physicians in California to receive medical doctor degrees. In 1964, Bostick became Dean of the California College of Medicine (CCM), the school ...

California Osteopathic Association

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