The Flowering of an Idea: A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins Hospital

Alan M. Chesney

The Flowering of an Idea: A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Country
United States
Published
26 August 2010
Pages
87
ISBN
9780801894329

The Flowering of an Idea: A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins Hospital

Alan M. Chesney

How, exactly, did the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions come into existence? Historians may debate the issue but playwrights can imagine it. Here, Alan M. Chesney dares to go where doctors and historians may not. A one-act play, The Flowering of an Idea presents in four scenes an imaginary conversation in which an idea is born. The dramatis personae include Johns Hopkins himself; the London-based banker George Peabody; Daniel Coit Gilman, founder of the Johns Hopkins University; John Garrett, president of the B&O Railroad; Elihu E. Jackson, governor of Maryland; and Robert C. Davidson, mayor of Baltimore. Chesney used Helen Thom’s definitive biography, Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette, as a source and wrote the play to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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