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James P. Warbasse

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The knowledge and skill which have the power of preventing disease, relieving suffering, and prolonging life should be available to all. They should not be purchasable by some and denied to others, nor bestowed as a charity upon any. Health and life are too precious to be at the mercy of trade and barter.

The Conquest of Disease Through Animal Experimentation.
D. Appleton, New York, 1910.

black and white photograph of James Warbasse

James P. Warbasse 1866-1957

Texts of James P. Warbasse's Writings

These writings are available in print versions and in many cases as electronic versions.

The Conquest of Disease Through Animal Experimentation. D. Appleton, New York, 1910.
Cooperation, 1916-1924. ◊e-text
Cooperation, 1925-1936. ◊e-text
Cooperation as a Way of Peace. Harper, New York, 1939.
Co-operative Democracy. Macmillian, New York, 1923.
Current Writings. 1938-1946. ◊e-text
Current Writings. 1947-1957. ◊e-text
The doctor and the Public. Paul B. Hoeber, Inc, New York, 1935.
Doctors of Samuel Johnson and His Court. Medical Library and Historical Journal, 1907. ◊e-text
Editorials, 1906-1908.
Medical Memoirs, 1890-1910. ◊e-text
Medical Memoirs, 1911-1935.
Medical Sociology. D. Appleton, New York, 1909.
Miscellany, 1891-1911
Problems of Cooperation. Cooperative League of the United States of America, New York, 1942.
Social Writings, 1911-1921. ◊e-text
Social Writings, 1922-1932. ◊e-text
Social Writings, 1933-1937. ◊e-text
Surgical Editorials and Translations, 1892-1896. ◊e-text
Surgical Treatment. W.B. Saunders company, Philadelphia, 1919.
Three Voyages. The Cooperative League of the U.S.A., 1956.
Warbasse History: A Study in the Sociology of Heredity. Kendall Press; Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1954.
What is Cooperation? Vanguard Press, New York, 1927.

Biography

Birth: November 22, 1866, Newton, N. J.
Death: February 22, 1957, Woods Hole, Mass.
Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, N.Y., Medical Doctor degree, 1889.
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., Intern, 1889-1891.
Postgraduate work in Göttingen, Germany under pathologist Johannes Orth and surgeon Franz König; in Vienna, Austria under surgeon Theodor Billroth.
Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., Assistant Attending Surgeon, 1892.
Served in Spanish-American war, 1898.
Established private practice, 1902
Chief surgeon, German (now Wyckoff Heights) Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1906.
Editor, New York State Journal of Medicine. 1905-1909.
Member, "Recruiting Local" No. 174, Industrial Workers of the World, 1911.
Founder, Cooperative League of America, 1916. President until 1941 retirement.
Retired from active surgical practice, 1918.
Surgical Treatment, 3 volumes published, 1918.
Suspended from King's County Medical Society, 1918. (In 1930, Society attempted to reinstate him, but offer declined.)
President-emeritus Cooperative League, 1941-1957.

References available at HAM-TMC Library:
• Obituary - Journal of the American Medical Association, 164 (7), 785, June 15, 1957.
• Babbott, Frank L., Jr. Doctors Afield: James P. Warbasse. New England Journal of Medicine, 258 (6), 287-8, Feb. 6, 1958.
Three Voyages: Being an Autobiography, The Cooperative Publishing Association, 1956.

Reference available at Houston Public Library:
• "James Peter Warbasse." Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 6: 1956-1960. American Council of Learned Societies, 1980. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center Farmington Hills. Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004. http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.catalog.houstonlibrary.org:80/servlet/BioRC

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