Palmer Futcher papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1990-092
Scope and Contents note
The Palmer Futcher papers contain files concerning the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Library Committee (1975-1984), including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed material (7 folders). Additional College of Physicians of Philadelphia materials include: memoranda, correspondence, and reports related to the Section of Medical History and the Wood Institute Advisory Committee (up to 1994). There are files from Futcher's time as assistant dean at Johns Hopkins, and some files from his time as Executive Secretary of the American Board of Internal Medicine. A portion of the collection is made of subject files (1939-1980s) on medical topics including diseases, disciplines, health care systems, and medical education, and non-medical topics such as economics, education, and philosophy. The subject files contain such formats as magazine and newspaper clippings, reprints of scientific articles, reports, medical case files, photographs, transparencies, bibliographies, newsletters, memoranda and correspondence. There are drafts of articles and presentations by Futcher as well.
Dates
- 1939-1994
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
Biographical/Historical note
Palmer Howard Futcher (1910-2004) graduated from Harvard College and in 1936 earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. After his residency there he joined a research team at the Rockefeller Institute, resigning soon after Pearl Harbor to join the Navy in 1942. At Pensacola he studied survival at sea, and met and married Mary Viola Rightor. After discharge from the Navy in 1946, he taught medicine at Washington University and became certified in internal medicine in 1947, before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1948. For 19 years he was variously director of the outpatient service, director of the university's student health service, and an assistant dean. In 1967 Futcher moved to Philadelphia to become the Executive Secretary of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Following retirement from ABIM in 1975 he attended at a University of Pennsylvania diabetes clinic, and volunteered successfully for recertification in internal medicine in 1977. An active member of both the World Federalist Association and Physicians for Social Responsibility, he advocated world peace through law and negotiation.
Extent
14.0 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Provenance: Gift of Palmer Futcher.
Year acquired: 1990, 1994
Accession number: 1990-092-01 and 1990-091-01
Year acquired: 1990, 1994
Accession number: 1990-092-01 and 1990-091-01
- Title
- Palmer Futcher papers 1939-1994 1990-092
- Date
- 2012
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
- Sponsor
- This collection-level EAD record is a product of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Consortial Survey Initiative, which was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
Contact:
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org
