Reprints of Ernst Boas articles, 1900-1951.

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Physicians Forum

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The collector, Walter Lear, was the founder of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health; he was also a member of the Physicians Forum and president of the organization in 1980. From the description of Physicians Forum collection, 1939-1998. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864980 ...

Boas, Ernst P. (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955

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Ernst Boas was the son of anthropologist Franz Boas, and as a physician was noted for his work in cardiology. He was also very much involved with liberal social causes. Boas was an instructor in pathology and physiology, an expert in chronic diseases, and a developer of the cardiotachometer. He was prominent in the American Medical Association during the 1940s and 50s, actively promoted National Health Insurance, and was an organizer of the Physicians Forum. From the description of R...

Medical Society of the County of New York

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Preceding the MSCNY was the Medical Society of New York, 1798-1806 [not held by the NYAM Library], of which Samuel Bard was a major participant. As an example of the numerous concerns addressed by the MSCNY: When the US federal government in postwar years produced a Professional Standards Review Organisation (1972), a system of local peer review by practicing physicians, the MSCNY became the local (Manhattan) administrator for the program, creating the NYCHSRO (New York County Health Standards R...

American medical association

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