John L. Shapiro
Dates
- Creation: 1951 - 1971
Creator
- Shapiro, John Lawton (Person)
Notes about Access to this Collection
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Reproduction Rights
Copyright is retained by Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections.
Historical or Biographical Note
John L. Shapiro (1915-1983) was a pathologist and professor. He was a successor to Dr. Ernest W. Goodpasture as chairman of the Department of Pathology at Vanderbilt, and he helped establish one of the first diagnostic cytopathology laboratories in the South. He received his M.D. from Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine in 1941. Then he worked as a House Officer in Surgery at the Western Reserve University Hospital from 1941-42 and 1946-47. During World War II, he was a Captain, and Battalion Surgeon in the U.S. Army from 1942-45. He returned to Vanderbilt in 1948 as a Resident in Pathology and eventually became a Professor and Chairman (1956-71) of the Department of Pathology. He stayed at Vanderbilt until 1980.
For more information and pictures please see the VUMC Online Images and Biography of Dr. Shapiro.
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition Information
Acquired on Unknown Date
Abstract
Personal papers of pathologist, Vanderbilt alumnus and Vanderbilt professor John L. Shapiro. The collection consists of notebooks containing material (case histories) from Clinico-Pathology conferences (CPC) at VUMC, some with Shapiro's handwritten notes. The CPCs were one of Dr. Shapiro's major instructional techniques. The cases usually precede the conference dates by three to fifteen years. These dates are for the conferences.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Personal papers of pathologist, Vanderbilt alumnus and Vanderbilt professor John L. Shapiro. The collection consists of notebooks containing material (case histories) from Clinico-Pathology conferences (CPC) at VUMC, some with Shapiro's handwritten notes. The CPCs were one of Dr. Shapiro's major instructional techniques. The cases usually precede the conference dates by three to fifteen years. These dates are for the conferences.
Processing History
processed on Unknown Date
Subject
- Shapiro, John Lawton (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the History of Medicine Manuscripts Collection Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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