Background
Knight, James Allen was born on October 20, 1918 in St. George, South Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Samuel and Carolyn (Carn) Knight.
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Knight, James Allen was born on October 20, 1918 in St. George, South Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Samuel and Carolyn (Carn) Knight.
He graduated from Wofford College and earned his Doctor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. He completed his post-graduate medical training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. Additionally, Knight completed a Master of Divinity Degree at Duke University and a Masters of Public Health Degree from Tulane University.
His principal contributions were in medical student development, the intersection of psychiatry and religion, ethical issues in medicine, and the understanding of conscience. Knight held the Harkness Chair in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New New York He then served in a variety of administrative posts, including Dean of Admissions at Tulane University School of Medicine, where he promoted the admission of people of diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds into medical school.
Knight was the first Dean of the newly formed Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Medicine, a post he held for five years (1973 - 1978).
He subsequently left university administrative posts to finish his career as a professor at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and return to the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College of Medicine as professor from 1992 - 1997. Knight"s many awards included the Distinguished Alumni Award from Wofford College in 1971, and one for his leadership of the Society for Health and Human Values.
Knight earned a fellowship from the World Health Organization for study at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1961. During World World War II, he served as a United States. Navy Chaplain on the United States Ship Sanctuary Haven-class hospital ship.
He died on July 17, 1998, at the age of 79.
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Served as chaplain United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Member American Psychiatric Association, American Academy Psychoanalysis, Group Advancement Psychiatry, American Osler Society, Society Health and Human Values (president 1983-1984), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sally Templeman, June 8, 1963. 1 child, Steven Allen.