jun 1, 1947 - Robert Paul Hudson, M.D.

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“Bob” Hudson was a 1947 graduate of Kansas City Kansas Junior College. In his final year Bob was the editor for The Jayhawk Junior College Yearbook. In J. Paul Jewell’s book from 1992, The History of Kansas City Kansas Community College, Jewell makes a two-paragraph quote from Hudson to begin his Chapter 3 on the Brick and Mortar Campus. The essence of the paragraph is that while a student Hudson predicted in 1947 that Junior Colleges should “expand to meet the challenge of a nation-wide record enrollment.” Since this was certainly the case from 1946-1966, Jewell found the young pre-medical student’s words poignant for use in his book.

In 1952, Robert Paul Hudson, M.D. (1926-2014) started an annual students award for the best teacher at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. In 1955 Hudson started the Lunar Society an informal literary discussion group for KU Medical Center senior medical students. In 1958 Hudson, who also worked as a physician at the hospital, joined the KU faculty where he served in a variety of administrative capacities in School of Medicine at the University of Kansas. He is perhaps best known for his tenure as Chairman of the Department of History of Medicine from 1966-1994. He was viewed by students as a passionate and enthusiastic teacher who strove to make the humanities a part of medical education. In 1983, Hudson published Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought which examined the major concepts that led to our present understanding of disease and its control in Western Civilization {http:www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/history-and-philospophy-of-medicine/about-us/lecture-series/the-robert-p-hudson-lecture-in-the-history-of-disease.html}.

Subject: Robert Hudson 1926 - 2014 - Obituary
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