Creator: Bylebyl, Jerome Collection Date: 1975-2006 Extent: 1 box (1.2 cubic feet)
Historian of Medicine Jerome J. Bylebyl was born in Buffalo, New York in 1943 and grew up in the nearby town of North Tonawanda, New York. He earned a B.S. in Biology and History in 1965 from Boston College and a Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from Yale University in 1969. Bylebyl spent 1970 as a research associate at University College London before being appointed as an assistant professor of History at the University of Chicago. In 1976, he become a fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and was appointed assistant professor in both the Department of the History of Medicine at the School of Medicine and the Department of the History of Science and Technology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He was promoted to associate professor in 1979.
While at the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine, Bylebyl served as the acting director from 1983-1984, director of graduate studies from 1984-1991 and co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine from 1990-2006. He also was a member of editorial boards of several other academic publications, including ISIS, the Journal of the History of Biology, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences and Studies in History of Biology.
Bylebyl’s primary research interests consisted of the history of anatomy and medicine from the early modern period and earlier. He wrote on a wide variety of topics, such as Galen, the School of Padua and most especially the English physician William Harvey, who was often a touchpoint in his work. He edited two books, “William Harvey and His Age” and “Teaching the History of Medicine at a Medical Center.” He died in 2006.
The Jerome Bylebyl collection includes manuscripts and correspondence with colleagues on history of medicine topics.
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