Charles Donald O'Malley

Charles Donald O'Malley (April 1, 1907 – April 6, 1970) was an American Latinist and professor of medical history, recognized as a leading expert on the medicine of the Renaissance and, especially, the work of Vesalius.[1] O'Malley was the president of the History of Science Society for a two-year term from 1967 to 1968)[2][3][4]

Biography

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Charles Donald O'Malley, a third-generation Californian, was born in Alameda County, California. In 1924 he matriculated at Stanford University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1928 and an M.A. in 1929. From 1929 to 1943 he taught history and Latin at South San Francisco High School and continued advanced studies in his spare time. In 1939 he married Dr. Frances M. Keddie, a dermatologist and dermatological researcher.[2][5] In 1943 he returned to Stanford University as a doctoral student and graduated with a Ph.D. in 1945 with an outstanding, comprehensive dissertation on the life, thought, and influence of Jacopo Aconcio. Upon completing his Ph.D., Charles D. O'Malley joined in 1945 Stanford University's history department as the department's general expert on Renaissance history.[2] He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1952–1953.[6] He and John Bertrand deCusance Morant Saunders (1903–1991)[7] published extensively on Vesalius, Leonardo da Vinci, Gabriele Fallopio, and other famous, Renaissance anatomists.[2] O'Malley was the author or co-author of papers published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine,[8][9][10][11][12][13] the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Medical History,[21][22][23][24] and several other journals. By 1958 O'Malley had published more than 20 papers directly or indirectly dealing with the life and work of Vesalius.[25] During his career, O'Malley also did noteworthy research on the Spanish physicians Andrés Laguna, Pedro Jimeno, and Bernardino Montaña de Monserrate [es].[26] For the academic year 1959–1960 O'Malley was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1960 he became a tenured, full professor in UCLA's division of medical history in the department of anatomy at UCLA. He was eventually promoted to be the head of UCLA's newly created department of medical history, a position which he retained until his sudden death in 1970 in Los Angeles at the age of 63.[25][27] He lectured at many American universities and also in Britain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Canada.[2] During the 1950s and 1960s he corresponded extensively with important, medical historians such as John F. Fulton, F. N. L. Poynter, and Charles Singer.[27]

In the 1950s Franklin David Murphy, as the chancellor of the University of Kansas at Lawrence, unsuccessfully attempted to recruit O'Malley to become a professor at Lawrence. In 1960 Murphy was appointed the chancellor of UCLA, as well as a professor of medical history. During the 1960s Murphy and O'Malley worked together productively. Murphy with O'Malley's help persuaded the directors of the Wellcome Trust[2] to donate 30,000 objects from the Wellcome Ethnological Collection in London to assist the founding in 1963 of a new UCLA campus museum. The new museum was originally named the "Laboratory of Ethnic Arts and Technology."[28]

O'Malley was one of the founding members at the first formal meeting in 1964 of the International Academy of the History of Medicine[29] and was the academy's president from 1967 until his death in 1970.[25]

Awards and honors

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In 1956 O'Malley was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[30] He was an honorary or corresponding member of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (London), and several other prestigious societies concerned with the history of medicine. In 1965 he received the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award and the Commonwealth Club of California's silver medal. In 1969 he received the Prix Eugène Baie II from the government of Belgium's Antwerp Province.[2] As a posthumous honor, UCLA established the Charles Donald O'Malley Short-Term Research Fellowships.[31]

Selected publications

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Articles

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  • O'Malley, C. Donald (1954). "Andreas Vesalius' Pilgrimage". Isis. 45 (2): 138–144. doi:10.1086/348311.
  • O'Malley, C. Donald (1967). "The Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 200 (1): 35–38. doi:10.1001/jama.1967.03120140093014. PMID 5342401. (See Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana.)
  • O'Malley, C. D. (1968). "Tudor Medicine and Biology". Huntington Library Quarterly. 32 (1): 1–27. doi:10.2307/3816834. JSTOR 3816834. PMID 19928329.
  • O'Malley, C. D. (1971). "Desiderius Erasmus". JAMA. 216: 66. doi:10.1001/jama.1971.03180270032004. (See Erasmus.)

Books and monographs

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References

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  1. ^ Bylebyl, Jerome J. (1971). "C. D. O'Malley's Vesalius: An Appreciation". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 26 (1): 87–92. doi:10.1093/jhmas/XXVI.1.87. PMID 4925844.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Burke, John G.; Field, John; White Jr., Lynn Townsend. "Charles Donald O'Malley 1907–1970, Professor of Medical History". Online Archives of California.
  3. ^ Wilson, Leonard G. (1971). "Charles Donald O'Malley 1907–1970". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 26 (1): 81–86. doi:10.1093/jhmas/XXVI.1.81. PMID 4925843.
  4. ^ Poynter, F. N. L. (1970). "Charles Donald O'Malley. 1 April 1907–7 April 1970". Medical History. 14 (3): 320–321. doi:10.1017/S0025727300015660. PMC 1034068. PMID 4921985.
  5. ^ Sternberg, Thomas H.; Keddie, Frances M. (1961). "Immunofluorescence Studies in Tinea Versicolor: A Preliminary Report". Archives of Dermatology. 84 (6): 999–1003. doi:10.1001/archderm.1961.01580180115018. PMID 13917008.
  6. ^ "Charles Donald O'Malley". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  7. ^ "John B. deC. M. Saunders (1903–1991)". A History of UCSF, University of California, San Francisco.
  8. ^ O'Malley, Charles Donald (1943). "Some Material on the Death of Edward Gibbon". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 13 (2): 200–209. JSTOR 44442782. (See Edward Gibbon.)
  9. ^ O'Malley, Charles Donald; Saunders, J. B. deC. M. (1943). "Vesalius as a Clinician". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 14 (5): 594–608. JSTOR 44440883.
  10. ^ O'Malley, C. D. (1959). "The Inception of Anatomical Studies in the University of Paris". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 33 (5): 436–445. JSTOR 44446626. PMID 14428097.
  11. ^ Moes, Robert J.; O'Malley, C. D. (1960). "Realdo Colombo " On Those Things Rarely Found in Anatomy " an Annotated Translation from the "De Re Anatomica" (1559)". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 34 (6): 508–528. JSTOR 44446691. (See Realdo Colombo.)
  12. ^ O'Malley, C. D.; Clarke, Edwin (1961). "The Discovery of the Auditory Ossicles". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 35 (5): 419–441. JSTOR 44446817. PMID 14480894.
  13. ^ O'Malley, C. D. (1968). "Helkiah Crooke, M.D., F.R.C.P., 1576-1648". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 42 (1): 1–18. JSTOR 44449899. (See Helkiah Crooke.)
  14. ^ O'Malley, Charles Donald; Saunders, J. B. deC. M. (1948). "The "Relation" of Andreas Vesalius on the Death of Henry II of France". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2): 197–213. doi:10.1093/jhmas/III.2.197.
  15. ^ O'Malley, Charles D.; Fulton, John F. (1953). "A Translation of William Withering's "De angina gangraenosa"". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 8 (1): 16–45. doi:10.1093/jhmas/VIII.January.16. JSTOR 24619344. PMID 13011300. (See William Withering.)
  16. ^ O'Malley, Charles D. (1953). "The Complementary Careers of Michael Servetus: Theologian and Physician". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 8 (4): 378–389. doi:10.1093/jhmas/VIII.October.378. JSTOR 24619777. PMID 13109182. (See Michael Servetus.)
  17. ^ O'Malley, Charles D. (1953). "Bound in Human Skin". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 8 (4): 447–448. doi:10.1093/jhmas/VIII.October.447. PMID 13109188.
  18. ^ O'Malley, Charles D.; Charles; Perrenot, A.; Carolus (1954). "Andreas Vesalius, Count Palatine: Further Information on Vesalius and his Ancestors". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 9 (2): 196–223. doi:10.1093/jhmas/IX.2.196. JSTOR 24619796. PMID 13152357.
  19. ^ O'Malley, Charles D. (1957). "A Latin Translation of Ibn Nafis (1547) Related to the Problem of the Circulation of the Blood". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 12 (2): 248–253. doi:10.1093/jhmas/XII.4.248. JSTOR 24619423. PMID 13429063. (See Ibn Nafis.)
  20. ^ O'Malley, Charles D. (1958). "Some Episodes in the Medical History of Emperor Charles V: An Imperial Problem and the Problem of an Emperor". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 13 (4): 469–482. JSTOR 24619270. PMID 13598885.
  21. ^ O'Malley, C. D. (1964). "Andreas Vesalius 1514–1564: In Memoriam". Medical History. 8 (4): 299–308. doi:10.1017/S002572730002977X. PMC 1033406. PMID 14230135.
  22. ^ O'Malley, C. D. (1968). "John Evelyn and Medicine". Medical History. 12 (3): 219–231. doi:10.1017/S0025727300013260. PMC 1033824. PMID 4875609. (See John Evelyn.)
  23. ^ O'Malley, C. D. (1970). "The Lure of Padua". Medical History. 14 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1017/S002572730001509X. PMC 1034010. PMID 4904727. (See Padua.)
  24. ^ Valadez, F. M.; O'Malley, C. D. (1971). "James Keill of Northampton, Physician, Anatomist and Physiologist". Medical History. 15 (4): 317–335. doi:10.1017/S0025727300016884. PMC 1034193. PMID 4945332. (See James Keill.)
  25. ^ a b c Poynter, F. N. L. (1970). "Obituary Notice. C. D. O'Malley, M.A., Ph.D." British Medical Journal. 2 (5704): 302–303. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5704.302. PMC 1700428.
  26. ^ Skaarup, Bjørn Okholm (9 March 2016). Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain. Routledge. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-317-18142-2.
  27. ^ a b "Charles Donald O'Malley papers, 1847-1983". Online Archives of California.
  28. ^ Berns, Marla C. (January 20, 2020). "Fowler Museum at UCLA: 57 Years and Counting". UCLA School of Arts and Architecture (arts.ucla.edu).
  29. ^ "International Academy of the History of Medicine". Medical History. 8 (1): 86–87. January 1964. doi:10.1017/S002572730002915X. PMC 1033342.
  30. ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). (Search on last_name="O'Malley".)
  31. ^ "UCSD Science Studies Program: Charles Donald O'Malley Short-term research fellowship at UCLA". 26 April 2011.
  32. ^ Bonito, Virginia Anne (1985). "Leonardo on the Human Body. Leonardo da Vinci , Charles D. O'Malley , J. B. De C. M. Saunders". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 60 (3): 329–330. doi:10.1086/414432.
  33. ^ Clarke, Edwin (1964). "review of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels 1514–1564, by C.D. O'Malley". Medical History. 8 (4): 380–383. doi:10.1017/S0025727300029902. PMC 1033419.
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