Genevieve Miller

Genevieve Miller (October 15, 1914 – June 23, 2013) was an American medical historian, medical museum curator and director.

Biography Genevieve Miller was born on 15 October 1914 in Butler, Pennsylvania. She graduated from public schools in Butler. In 1935, she graduated from Baltimore's Goucher College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. In 1939, she completed her M.A. in the history of medicine from the Institute of the History of Medicine of Johns Hopkins University. Her 355-page dissertation The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France was published in 1957 in Philadelphia by University of Pennsylvania Press and in London by Oxford University Press. The book gained esteem for her "immense industry and care" and is "still considered a classic work in the history of medicine."

For the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Miller served as an associate editor from 1944 to 1948, as acting editor in 1948, and as a member of the advisory editorial board from 1960 to 1992. From 1948 to 1965 she was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.

In 1979 she moved to Baltimore, but after about two years, she returned to Cleveland to be near her friends and familiar surroundings. She lived at Judson Manor, a retirement community about .4 miles (.64 km) from the CWRU campus. She enjoyed travel and was greatly interested in ancient architecture. Her grave is in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery.

Awards and honors For her book The Adoption of the Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France, Miller received the 1962 William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM). of the AAHM and from 1978 to 1980 served as the AAHM's president. In 1999 she received the AAHM's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007 she received the Recognition of Merit Award of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences,

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