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Biography of C. Everett KoopName: C. Everett KoopBirth Date: October 14, 1916 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: surgeon general, pediatric surgeon, professor, author C. Everett Koop C. Everett Koop (born 1916), one of America's most outspoken surgeons general, served two terms in the 1980s. Koop's appointment angered liberals. However, the conservative Christian doctor later alienated social conservatives by refusing to compromise his common-sense approach to health issues for the sake of politics.Brooklyn, NY-born Koop graduated from Dartmouth College in 1937 and earned his M.D. degree from Cornell Medical College in 1941. Following an internship, he pursued postgraduate training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he earned a doctor of science degree in medicine in 1947.Koop became a professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine in 1959 and professor of pediatrics in 1971. Koop also was surgeon-in-chief of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1948 until he left academia in 1981. At the hospital, Koop gained renown for success in …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…and Johnson, Timothy, Let's Talk: An Honest Conversation on Critical Issues: Abortion, AIDS, Euthanasia, Health Care, Zondervan, 1992.Koop, C. Everett; Virgo, John M., editor, Exploring New Vistas in Health Care, International Health Economics, 1985.Koop, Everett C.; Elizabeth Koop; and Koop, C. Everett, Sometimes Mountains Move, Zondervan, 1995.Christian Century, January 26, 1994.Good Housekeeping, September, 1991.JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, November 24, 1989.Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1997.National Review, February 10, 1989.New Republic, February 1, 1988; January 23, 1989; October 23, 1989.Playboy, May, 1989.Time, June 8, 1987.U.S. News & World Report, May 16, 1988; May 30, 1988.Heinz Awards, 1995 Recipients, http://www.awards.heinz.org/koop.html (March 6, 1998).The C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth, "C. Everett Coop," at: http://koop.dartmouth.edu/cek.html (October 1, 2001).Shape Up America!, "C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.," at: http://www.shapeup.org/general/koop.htm (October 1, 2001).drkoop.com, "Medical Advisory Board," at: http://www.drkoop.com/aboutus/corp_info/advisory/#everett_koop (October 1, 2001). |