Oscar A. Thorup, Jr. papers, 1956/1997

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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Collection is open to research.

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Preferred citation:

Oscar A. Thorup, Jr. Papers, MS-47, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Summary

Extent:
2.5 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Oscar A. Thorup, Jr. Papers, MS-47, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes documents related to various editions of the Fundamentals of Clinical Hematology; U.Va. Class of 1944 and School of Medicine Class of 1946 reunions; letters and Thorup's notes concerning his 1959 visits to medical schools and hospitals in London, Utrecht and Groningan in the Netherlands, Uppsala and Goteborg in Sweden, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Oslo, and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and consequently letters related to summer exchanges at schools abroad in 1960 through 1964; letters and notes concerning his 1972 visits to schools in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; letters received during 1958-59 at Oxford; and talks and papers related to pharmacologic anticoagulants, fibrinolysis, pulmonary embolism, the start of the University of Arizona Medical School, porphyrias, catalase, hemostasis, community medicine; and papers and schedules related to classes taught at U.Va. with James Childress on ethics and public policy in health care, plagues, and AIDS. The collection includes documents related to University of Virginia self-studies and visits to special libraries to obtain information and reprints concerning Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson's thinking on education and medicine.

Abstract to College of Physicians

Reprinted fromScience, May 18, 1956.

Submitted and accepted for publication toThe Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. One letter is from Thorup. The other two are from editors at the journal.

Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress of the International Society of Hematology

Presented in part at the 7th Congress of the International Society of Hematology.

Reprint fromThe Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, Vol. 58, No., 1, July 1961.

Presented in part at the Fifth Annual Session of the American Society of Hematology.

Reprinted fromBritish Journal of Haematology, vol. 10, No. 4.

This issue is mainly addressing the use of laboratory animals.

Papers relate to the publication and patenting of the stop-dialysis cup.

This talk was given to the American College of Physicians.

Published inArizona Medicineand prepared as a talk.

This was the feature talk at the 25th year reunion of the UVA SOM class of 1946.

Talk for the Annie Lipscomb lecture and also one given in Williamsburg.

This talk was for the University of Arizona College of Medicine Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine seminar on "The Time of Death."

Includes talk, experiments, and pulmonary embolism information.

Talk given at the University of Virginia.

Talk given at the University of Virginia.

Lecture given at the University of Virginia.

Instructors James Childress and Oscar Thorup, packet of readings for class published by Professor's Publishing, University of Virginia. Topics include the right to health care, cost containment, organ procurement and transplants, genetic screening.

Notes are based onScientific Americanarticle.

Topics covered include the plague and AIDS.

Topics covered include AIDS and the plague.

Topics covered include AIDS, the plague, and cholera.

Concerns AIDS.

Instructors: James Childress and Oscar Thorup, tentative schedule of topics, students

Instructors: James Childress and Oscar Thorup; topic mostly covered is cholera, also "The Curious Case of Thyphoid Mary" by George A. Soper

Plans for a year abroad.

Correspondence concerns the bookFundamentals of Clinical Hematology. Dusseau comments on the organization of the book, carelessness, writing style and competitive situation but does offer to review the manuscript again after more work is done on it. June 1958 graduation photo of unidentified people.

The letter grants Thorus a leave of absence.

Included are newspaper clippings including one fromThe Washington Post and Times Herald, July 18, 1958, showing a school district map redrawn by the Charlottesville School Board to minimize desegregation.

Topics include William E. Strole, medical school news, "public school situation" due to integration.

Topics include visit to Crispells, medical student withdrawals

Includes medical school news.

Includes medical school news, the book, and the [Charlottesville public] school integration with specific reference to its effect on faculty recruiting.

Includes medical school news, public school integration, medical publication, Markle Scholars, financial support for planned trip [to look at other medical schools?].

Includes medical school news, public school integration, Student Health, School of Medicine curriculum, the book, opportunity to visit European medical schools.

Includes Thorup's election to the Southern Society for clinical research, School of Medicine news, offer of a position at the University of Colorado Medical School.

Includes School of Medicine news, possibility of [Edgar] Shannon [coming to UVa as President], the Smith's basement no longer being used as a school, integration supposed to start up in September 1959, membership in the Southern Society for Clinical Research, the book, "UVa oudid Princeton" by electing an unknown, young cultural Rotarian as President. Quite a shock!" and Leavell's comments about the book.

Topics include the book and the catalase paper.

Topics include visits to medical schools in Scandinavia and England to facilitate future exchanges of medical students and faculty.

Includes floor plans.

David B. Rice and Phillip J. Walker to University of Durham Medical School, Kings college, Newcastle upon Tyne; thomas Lanier to London Hospital Medical College; Genevieve Scarisbrick from University of Manchester Medical School.

Concerns the history and current status of Congressional bills to regulate animal experimentation.

Medical Student Research Fellowship Program

Concerns the humane treatment of animals used in research.

Thorup writes in opposition to the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Robertson thanks Thorup for his letter about the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Robertson thanks Parson for his letter about the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Robertson thanks Thorup for his letter about the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments and gives a copy of the bill as well as his remarks.

Barclay thanks Thorup for his letter regarding the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Byrd notes Thorup's letter.

Smith informs Thorup that he thinks Thorup doesn't have to worry much about the bill concerning the use of animals in laboratory experiments.

Pell thanks Thorup for his letter regarding the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Yarborough thanks Thorup for his letter regarding the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Williams thanks Thorup for his letter regarding the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Javits thanks Thorup for his letter regarding the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Thorup explains his objection to the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Jordan responds to Thorup's letter about the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Kennedy thanks Thorup for his letter about the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

Tower thanks Thorup for his letter about the bill concerning treatment of animals used in experiments.

The conference was held at Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes graphs for number of publications, as well as residents, interns, fellows, and research associates for 1953 through 1963. Also standing committees for persons at risk and patterns of staffing for 1953 through 1963. The agenda for the meeting in Williamsburg and an extensive program is included. The program's index has entries for objectives of predoctoral medical education, internship and residency program, medical colleges with the highest percentage of graduation in full-time teaching and/or research 1935-1950, proportions of 1934-58 physician graduates holding full-time faculty appointments, July 1960, percentage of graduates who specialize, percentage of national classes choosing specialties, medical college admission test mean scores-entering classes for UVa 1962-63, mean college admission test group frequency distribution of scores for entering classes and all applicants for UVa 1962-63, mean scores of medical students on medical colleges admission test by region and for 14 public and 9 private schools in the state 1958-59, medical college admission test mean scores for entering students and applicants at UVa compared to national mean scores of accepted applicants 1952-63, curriculum evaluation and revision, primary areas of concern, proposals.

Includes report and meeting minutes.

Includes floor plans, medical services, objectives.

Includes authors, royalties, author pay, letters from Oscar Thorup and Roberta Kangilaski, Saunders Company, chapter responsibilities.

Moderated by Oscar A. Thorup.

Correspondents include Oscar Thorup, Sam Graham, Arthur Ebbert, and Barbara Henderson. Information on the 1946 Medical Class Loan Fund is included.

Correspondents include Oscar Thorup, Sam Graham, and Dennis P. McCarty.

The certificate declares Oscar Andreas Thorup a member of the Thomas Jefferson Society of Alumni for his 50 years of service.

For purposes of research on Thomas Jefferson.

For purposes of research on Thomas Jefferson.

For purposes of research on Thomas Jefferson.

For purposes of research on Thomas Jefferson.

For purposes of research on Thomas Jefferson.

Includes article about the National Archives partnering with Thomas Jefferson University to broadly distribute educational packets on Jefferson.

For purposes of research on Thomas Jefferson.

Includes letter from Gerald H. Holman to Oscar A. Thorup and copies of letters and documents related to Jefferson and Eastern Virginia and William and Mary.

Jefferson gives his daughter a daily schedule in a letter dated November 28, 1783.

Includes Jefferson's thoughts on education.

Concerns education.

Jefferson takes part in his grandson's education.

Sent to Cabell, passed February 21, 1818, to provide citizens of the commonwealth a primary grade of education at the common expense.

Related to education.

Related to education.

Related to education.

Related to education.

Related to education.

Related to education.

Related to education.

Also includes a letter from Joseph Fletcher to Oscar Thorup, August 28, 1988 and notes by Thorup on the talk.

Biographical / historical:

Oscar A. Thorup, Jr., was born March 12, 1922, in Washington D.C., the son of Pattie Walter Creecy and Oscar A. Thorup. After earning his undergraduate degree in 1944 at the University of Virginia, he graduated from the U.Va. School of Medicine in 1946. He was a member of the Raven Society, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Omega Alpha. He did his internship at Queen's Hospital in Honolulu, Hawai'i, and then spent two years in the Army Medical Corps at Tripler General Hospital, also in Honolulu. He returned to U.Va. in 1949 for his residency training in internal medicine. He was a research fellow for one year at the University of North Carolina where he worked with Dr. Louis Welt on renal function, electrolyte balance, and metabolism.

In 1953 Dr. Thorup returned to U.Va. as an Instructor in Internal Medicine and as head of the Teachers" Preventorium. The next year he received a $30,000, five year grant from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation which he used to study abnormal hemoglobins. He was also appointed an Assistant to the Dean in 1954 and worked closely with Dr. Thomas H. Hunter. He served as an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Assistant to the Dean starting in 1955 until he was granted a year's leave of absence to be a visiting investigator in Oxford, England, in 1958. He worked with Dr. R. G. MacFarlane and Dr. Alan Sharp at the Radcliffe Infirmary on blood coagulation and continued his studies in abnormal hemoglobin. Before his return to U.Va., Dr. Thorup used a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to visit medical schools in Scandinavia to assess the feasibility of a staff and student exchange program with his alma mater. This program was eventually developed. He returned in 1959 to U.Va. as an Associate Professor of Medicine. From 1961 to 1966 he was the director of the Hematology Training Program and physician-in-charge of the Hematology Clinic. He served as director of the Harvey E. Jordan Research Laboratory where he studied red cell development and aging.

Dr. Thorup left U.Va. in 1966 to take a position at the University of Arizona's future medical school as professor and chair of the Department of Medicine. He worked with Merlin K. DuVal, M.D., and Philip Krutsch, M.D. as a three-man planning team developing a curriculum and interfacing with architects. While in Arizona, Dr. Thorup became particularly interested in the development of agencies that could guide and promote programs to increase equal access to health care and increase the general quality of health care while reducing cost by better management in planning. He was a proponent of communities correcting their own problems rather than having federal government involvement. While in Arizona, he was part of the Health Planning Council for Greater Tucson, Southern Arizona Health Association, Arizona Heart Association, Pima County Medical Society, Arizona Medical Association, and the Red Cross. Dr. Thorup's papers related to his time at the University of Arizona are at the University of Arizona.

In 1972 Dr. Thorup took a sabbatical from the University of Arizona and returned to Oxford, England. He worked with Dr. Alan Sharp and focused again on the problems of blood coagulation. He visited schools in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. He resumed his chairmanship of the Department of Medicine upon returning to Tucson and then relocated back to the University of Virginia in 1974 where he initiated a new program in continuing education. He became director of the Program of Human Biology and Society, and with Dr. James Childress began a medical ethics program. He also headed the Medical Center Hour, a weekly public conference on cultural and ethical issues related to health care. He retired in 1989 as Professor Emeritus of Medicine.

Dr. Thorup was a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians as well as a member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, American Federation for Clinical Research, American Medical Association, American Society of Hematology, International Society of Hematology, and Southern Society of Clinical Research. He also served on a number of groups in the state of Virginia. He was on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Continuing Education of Health Professions and served as Chairman of the Council of Physician/Hospital Relations and Chairman of the Housestaff Education Committee. He was a member of the University's Health Systems Agency and Sub-Area Council, the Alumni Faculty Committee of the U.Va. Medical Alumni Association, and the Albemarle County Medical Society.

He wrote a widely used textbook,Fundamentals of Clinical Hematology, with Byrd S. Leavell, M.D. The first edition was published in 1960; the fifth and last in 1987. Most of his publications concerned internal medicine and hematology, but he also wrote papers on community health and medical education. He gave a talk comparing the founding of the University of Virginia Medical School with the University of Arizona Medical School. He did research related to Thomas Jefferson and his interest in medicine. The papers that Dr. Thorup collected concerning medicine and Jefferson are located at the Jefferson Library in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Thorup interests included painting; several of his works are hanging in the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. On October 21, 2002, following a long illness, Dr. Thorup died at the University of Virginia Medical Center. He was married for 58 years to Barbara Turnbull Thorup and had three children, Cathryn Lynn, Todd Thorup, and Matthew Schuyler.

Acquisition information:
The collection was donated by Dr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Thorup.
Arrangement:

The folders are in six boxes. The first box is a collection of Dr. Thorup's talks and papers arranged by date. The second box contains items related to UVa classes he taught with James Childress outside of the School of Medicine, also arranged by date. The third, fourth, and fifth boxes hold correspondence and documents arranged by date. The last box contains material related to Thorup's research about Thomas Jefferson and education and medicine.

Physical description:
6 boxes, 5" x 10.5" x 15.5," 2.5 feet, 186 folders