Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement

Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement

Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement

Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement

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Overview

W. Reece Berryhill, M.D., (1900-1979) was the founding dean from 1941 to 1964 of the M.D.-granting medical school and today's medical school-hospitals complex at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This biography documents and personalizes the remarkable transformation in daily life, medical education, and health care in North Carolina during the twentieth century. Berryhill's life story is inseparable from the story of how the state mobilized its citizens and resources in the Good Health Movement of the 1940s and 1950s to address the deplorable health status of its citizens (its young men had the worst rejection rate for military service in World War II of any state).

While celebrating the contributions of Berryhill and many other public-spirited individuals dedicated to addressing North Carolinians' need for more doctors and more hospitals, this work is also an urgent challenge to address the still unmet need for more insurance—that is, universal access to needed health care for all citizens, regardless of ability to pay.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807831953
Publisher: UNC at Chapel Hill Library
Publication date: 02/01/2008
Edition description: 1
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 7.25(w) x 10.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

William W. McLendon is professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine.

the late Floyd W. Denny Jr. was professor and chair emeritus of pediatrics.

he late William B. Blythe was professor emeritus of medicine, all at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents


Preface     vii
Prologue     1
The Dean of North Carolina Medicine     3
Years of Preparation, 1900-1933     13
A Childhood in the Rural South     15
Undergraduate, Teacher, and Medical Student     29
Harvard, UNC, and Western Reserve     49
Physician, Teacher, and Dean: Chapel Hill, 1933-1952     67
University Physician and Medical School Faculty Member     69
Dean of the Two-Year School of Medicine     104
A University Medical Center for the People of North Carolina, 1941-1964     123
The Poe Commission, the Sanger Report, and the Good Health Movement     125
Building and Recruiting     164
Dean of the Four-Year School of Medicine     219
Taking Medical Education to the Communities of North Carolina, 1964-1979     275
Community Medical Education and the Final Years     277
Epilogue     337
W. Reece Berryhill and North Carolina's Good Health Movement     339
W. Reece Berryhill: Chronology and Honors     347
Medical Schools in North Carolina, 1850-2000     349
Medical Schools in the United States, 1900-2000     351
North Carolina section in Abraham Flexner, Medical Education in the United States and Canada,1910     352
Recommendations of the Committee of Physicians Presented to Governor J. Melville Broughton, January 1944     357
Proposed Four-Year Medical School: Detail of Salaries and Wages Estimates, Prepared by Dean W. Reece Berryhill, September 5, 1944     361
Reports of the North Carolina Hospital and Medical Care Commission (Poe Report), October 1944 and February 1945     362
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     381
Report to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission by the National Committee for the Medical School Survey (Sanger Report), July 1946     387
Minority Report of the National Committee for the Medical School Survey, July 1946     397
W. R. Berryhill, "The Location of a Medical School: Considerations in Favor of Locating a Medical School on a University Campus," Proceedings of the Annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure, Chicago, February 6 and 7, 1950     400
Historical Table of Organization of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1776-1977     412
Table of Organization of the UNC Health Care System, 2006     413
University of North Carolina Campus, 1940     414
University of North Carolina Campus, 1954     415
University of North Carolina Campus, 2007      416
Abbreviations     417
Notes     419
Bibliography     451
Index     459

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Reece Berryhill and the UNC Medical School he developed contributed substantially to moving North Carolina from a laggard to a leader in health care among the states in the late twentieth century. The authors provide a uniquely intimate and informed description of important elements of this advance in health care from the perspective of Dean Berryhill and the School of Medicine of UNC at Chapel Hill.—Stuart Bondurant, former dean, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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