William Bennett Bean 3725178 221012803 2008-06-22T17:33:04Z 207.235.61.213 fix link '''William Bennett Bean''' ([[November 8]], [[1909]], the [[Philippines]]—[[March 1]], [[1989]]) was a well-known [[internist]], [[History of medicine|medical historian]] and teacher. ==Biography== He was born in the [[Philippines|Philippine Islands]], but not long after the family moved to [[New Orleans]] and a few years later to [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], where his father became chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the [[University of Virginia]]. He received his [[B.A.]] and [[M.D.]] from the University of Virginia, in 1932 and 1935, respectively. Following graduation from medical school, with top of the class designation and as president of [[Alpha Omega Alpha]], he [[intern]]ed on the [[Osler Service]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. The following year he moved to [[Boston]] and joined the elite group at the [[Thorndike Laboratory]] and the Harvard Service at [[Boston City Hospital]]. Dr. Bean began his clinical career at the [[University of Cincinnati]] College of Medicine (1936-1946) and at [[Cincinnati General Hospital]] (1941-1948). He was both a teacher and clinician, specializing in [[nutrition]]. He left [[Ohio]] in 1948 to become professor of medicine and head of internal medicine at the [[University of Iowa]] College of Medicine. He was named Sir [[William Osler]] Professor of Medicine there in 1970. In 1974, Dr. Bean was appointed Director, Institute for Medical Humanities and Professor of Internal Medicine at the [[University of Texas System|University of Texas]] Medical Branch, [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]]. In 1980, he retired from the Institute and returned to Iowa City as Sir [[William Osler]] [[Professor Emeritus]]. ==Legacy== Throughout his career, Dr. Bean was well known for his expertise in the field of nutrition, but even more so for his teaching and writing excellence. Long an admirer and follower of Sir William Osler's philosophies and techniques, Dr. Bean rarely turned down an invitation to speak or be a visiting professor. In his 1974 ''Archives of Internal Medicine'' [[festschrift]], he was described as :"a true [[renaissance man]]: an articulate clinician, a scholar of the [[classics]], a masterful teller of tales, and a prodigious writer of stories." Between 1937 and 1974, Bean published over 600 works in such diverse fields as nutrition, [[respiratory disease]], [[myocardial infarction]], [[climatology]], arterial "spiders," slum eradication and housing, [[liver disease]], William Osler, [[Walter Reed]], and the history of medicine. For over thirty years, Bean served as editor for fifteen journals, most notably the ''[[Archives of Internal Medicine]]''. In 1970, he co-founded the [[American Osler Society]]. He also was selected by two different Presidents to serve on the [[National Library of Medicine]]'s Board of Regents. == Selected works == *Bean, William B., ''Walter Reed: A Biography'', Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982. *Bean, William B., “Walter Reed and Yellow Fever,” ''[[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]]'' 250.5 (5 August 1983): 659-62. {{Expand-section|date=June 2008}} ==References== This article contains public domain text from the U.S. National Library of Medicine [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/ead/bean.html] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bean, William Bennett}} [[Category:1909 births]] [[Category:1989 deaths]] [[Category:Filipino physicians]]