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CHFM OBTAINS MOORE COLLECTION IN THE HISTORY OF FAMILY MEDICINE
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2013-02-01 |
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CHFM OBTAINS MOORE COLLECTION IN THE HISTORY OF FAMILY MEDICINE
February 2013
The Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM) is proud to announce that it has acquired a significant new donation in the form of 500 titles from Dr. Adam G. N. Moore’s personal library which will constitute the new Adam G.N. Moore, MD Collection in the history of Family Medicine at CHFM.
Son of psychiatrist and poet Merrill Moore, MD, and Ann Leslie Nichol Moore, a specialist in pre-school education, Dr. Moore is a graduate of Harvard College, and of Aberdeen University Faculty of Medicine in Scotland, where he received the M.B. and Ch.B. degrees in 1964. After serving as a resident at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and in its “Casualty” (Emergency) Department, Dr. Moore returned to the United States and completed additional residencies in pediatrics and medicine at Carney Hospital in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts.
A self-described “old family doc”, Dr. Moore practiced for three decades as a family physician in his hometown of Squantum, Massachusetts. After closing his private solo practice in 1997, Dr. & Mrs. Moore retired to New Hampshire.
In addition to his professional career, Dr. Moore served the venerable (and enormous) Boston Medical Library for more than thirty years as Secretary and/or as a member of its Board of Trustees. Over the course of the last six decades, he has also brought together a large personal library and collection of artifacts relating to interests in areas such as medicine, natural history, cartography and dictionaries.
The newly created Moore Collection in the history of Family Medicine at CHFM consists of titles which Dr. Moore describes as “the book you'd have if you didn’t have a doctor”. The collection relates to the history of Family Medicine, from pre-revolutionary America up to the present day. According to Dr. Moore, “These materials have been collected with the intention of showing, in an historical context, how people’s health has been maintained, and also how their medical problems have been recognized, interpreted and treated . . . For literally many decades, topical loan exhibits have been prepared and lent anonymously from these holdings for use by schools, hospitals, libraries, museums and other venues in association with their special events or for general interest. Since use of the internet has become widespread, the potential usefulness of this eclectic type of collection has broadened considerably.”
Dr. and Mrs. Moore’s gift is the most significant collection of books on the history of Family Medicine to be donated to the Center in its more than two decades of operation. “As it is perhaps the most comprehensive private library relating to the history of family medicine, we are very excited to receive the Moore gift and include it in our permanent collections,” said CHFM Manager Don Ivey. “This material is ideal for use as a research, reference and teaching resource to demonstrate both how the specialty has evolved over time and how important family medicine has been, and continues to be, in the development of medicine in America as a whole.”
Housed at the national headquarters of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and administered by the non-profit AAFP Foundation, the Center for the History of Family Medicine serves as the principal resource center for the collection, conservation, exhibition and study of materials relating to the history of Family Medicine in the United States.
For more details on the collection of the CHFM, please visit the Center's catalog, which is available as a downloadable, fully searchable pdf file at:
http://www.aafpfoundation.org/online/etc/medialib/found/documents/programs/chfm/catalog.Par.0001.File.dat/CHFMCatalog2ndEdRev.pdf
For more information on the Center, please contact Center staff via telephone at 1-800-274-2237 (ext. 4420 or 4422), via fax at (913) 906-6095, via e-mail at chfm@aafp.org, or visit our web site at http://www.aafpfoundation.org/chfm.
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Don Ivey, Manager
Center for the History of Family Medicine
American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
Leawood, KS 66211
Tel (913) 906-6000 x4420
(Toll free) (800) 274-2237 x 4420
Fax: (913) 906-6095
Email: divey@aafp.org
Website: www.aafpfoundation.org/chfm
Email: divey@aafp.org
Visit the website at http://www.aafpfoundation.org/chfm
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