Reminiscences of Wilburt Cornell Davison : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood, education; Princeton, 1909-1913, Rhodes scholar, Oxford, 1913; World War I: volunteer in France and Yugoslavia, 1914; Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1914; First Army Unit, Europe, 1918; Dean, Duke Medical School: construction of School and hospital, opening of School in 1930, furnishing library, selection of staff; trustee of Duke Endowment, 1960. Impressions of Doris Duke and numerous academic figures.

Subjects

• Davison, Wilburt Cornell, 1892-1972.
• Duke, Doris.
• Duke Endowment.
• Duke University. Medical Center.
• Interviews.
• Medical centers--North Carolina.
• Medical education.
• Oral histories.
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Rounds, Frank W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• World War, 1939-1945.

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