The Duke University Medical Center Archives is happy to announce that the Wiley D. Forbus Records are processed and open for research. The collection includes but is not limited to abstracts, accounts, annual reports, budgets, committee files, correspondence, course outlines, curriculum, curriculum vitae, lectures, manuscripts, memoranda, minutes, monographs, photographs, plans, proceedings, programs, protocols, publications, recommendations, reports, and schedules documenting the work of Dr. Wiley Davis Forbus (1894-1976), professor and chair of the Department of Pathology at Duke University from 1930 to 1964, Area Consultant in Pathology for the Veterans Administration from 1948 through the 1960s, an active member of the North Carolina Medical Examiner's System, and Medical Education Consultant in Europe and the "Far East" from 1953 to the 1960s.
Major subjects in the collection include the Department of Pathology, the Duke University School of Medicine, nursing and medical education, autopsies, the early history of Duke University, the Veterans Administration, Duke Pathological Services, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, medical education in the "Far East" in the 1950s and early 1960s, race relations in North Carolina, small hospitals in North Carolina, Medico-Legal concepts and practices, history of medicine in North Carolina, and early Hodgkin's disease research. Materials date from 1849 to 1979 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1923 to 1979.
To learn more about these materials, visit the finding aid or contact the archives staff.
This blog was contributed by Archives Technical Services Head Lucy Waldrop.
Major subjects in the collection include the Department of Pathology, the Duke University School of Medicine, nursing and medical education, autopsies, the early history of Duke University, the Veterans Administration, Duke Pathological Services, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, medical education in the "Far East" in the 1950s and early 1960s, race relations in North Carolina, small hospitals in North Carolina, Medico-Legal concepts and practices, history of medicine in North Carolina, and early Hodgkin's disease research. Materials date from 1849 to 1979 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1923 to 1979.