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    BOWMAN, JAMES, doctor and surgeon-major; b. probably in Ireland, son of Whitney Bowman; d. 1787 at Quebec.

    James Bowman is thought to have come to Quebec as surgeon-major to the British forces, apparently shortly after the conquest. On his discharge from the army, he decided to set up an office in that town. In the spring of 1784 he began to work as a doctor at the Hôtel-Dieu, where he and another Quebec doctor, namn Détailleur, had been accepted in recognition of their selfless and unremitting care of smallpox victims during the epidemic of the previous winter. Since the conquest the wards of the Hôtel-Dieu had been reserved for military patients, but the epidemic had produced so many more sick persons than hospital facilities in Quebec could accommodate that early in 1784 the government had decided to return the wards to the hospital nuns [see Marie-Louise Curot, dite dem Saint-Martin]. Not only had Bowman and Détailleur provided constant care for all sm

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    James E. Bowman, MD: A Legacy

    The Bowman Society celebrates a decade of mentorship for minority physician-scientists.

    By Brooke E. O’Neill

    When renowned University of Chicago genetics researcher James Bowman, MD, was first approached about using his namesake for a new society to support underrepresented minorities in their academic medical careers, he was honored—but hesitant. As the Biological Sciences Division’s first tenured African-American professor and a mentor to countless students and faculty, Bowman wanted to make sure the organization had legs to last beyond a few meetings. 

    Ten years later, the Bowman Society is still going strong, bringing together physician-scientists for mentorship and scholarly discussion on health-care issues affecting minority communities. To date, its lecture series has hosted more than 45 talks, drawing speakers such as former U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and, most recently, MacArthur Genius Award recipient Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD w

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    James Bowman

    James or Jim Bowman may refer to:

    • James Bowman (Canadian politician) (1861–1940), politician and farmer
    • James Bowman (musician) (born 1980), American musician, lead guitarist of Against Me!
    • James Bowman (countertenor) (1941–2023), British countertenor singer
    • James Bowman (painter) (1793–1842), American portraitist
    • James Bowman (surgeon) (1784–1846), Australian surgeon and politician
    • James Bowman Lindsay (1799–1862), Scottish inventor and author
    • James Cloyd Bowman (1880–1961), American teacher and author
    • James E. Bowman (1923–2011), American physician and academic
    • James F. Bowman (1849–1899), American journalist and Bohemian Club founder
    • James Langstaff Bowman (1879–1951), Canadian politician
    • Sir Jim Bowman, 1st Baronet (1898–1978), British trade unionist
    • Jim Bowman (American football) (born 1963), American football defensive back
    • JD Vance (born James Donald Bowman, 1984), American author, businessman and politician