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Oral history interview with Kenneth Josephson, September
Transcript
Preface
The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Kenneth Josephson on September 29, The interview took place in Josephson's home and studio in Chicago, IL, and was conducted by Lanny Silverman for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. This interview is part of the the Archives of American Art's Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource. Josephson has reviewed the transcript and has made corrections and emendations. This transcript has been lightly edited for readability by the Archives of American Art. The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose.
Interview
This is track one.
LANNY SILVERMAN: This is Lanny Silverman for the Smithsonian Institute's Archives of American Art. I'm interviewing Kenneth Josephson and it's September 29,
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This is track two.
LANNY SILVERMAN: All right. So I guess the first question is the big one—where were you born and when?
KENNETH JOSEPHSON: July 1, , in Detroit, Michigan.
LANNY SILVERMAN: Ah. And when you were in Detroit, Michigan, what was your family li
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Founders
- Martin Brimmer
- Charles C. Perkins
- Charles W. Eliot
- William Endicott Jr.
- Samuel Eliot
- Francis Tie. Parker
- Henry P. Kidder
- William B. Rogers
- George B. Emerson
- Otis Norcross
- John T. Bradlee
- Benjamin S. Rotch
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- William H. bid Saundra Lane
- Robert Owen Lehman and Marie Rolf
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- Mr. Wan-go H. C. Weng
- Anonymous (1)
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- Matthew A. ray Susan B. Weatherbie
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- Barbara and Theodore Alfond
- George D. and Offended
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Merchants in Medicine
ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
An advertising quack was the "leader" of the American medical profession and the boss of American Medical Association during the last four decades. But this would not surprise informed persons; for commercialism of "leaders" of medicine is one of the oldest traditions in this country.
Thus we find in the laws of Virginia of , reenacted in , the following disquisition on medical commercialism:
"Whereas by the 9th act of the Assembly held the 21st of October, , consideration being had and taken of the immoderate and excessive rates and prices exacted by practitioners in physic and chyrurgery and the complaints made to the then Assembly of the bad consequences thereof. It so happening through the said intolerable exactions that the hearts of divers masters were hardened rather to suffer their servants to perish for want of fit meanes and applications then by seeking relief to fall into the hands of griping and avaricious men."
The law provided that a physician could be arrested and haled into court if accused of excessive charges. Then also there existed the tendency to blame the consequences of avarice of men on the medical profession.
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