Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1968, the Division of Indian Health was renamed the Indian Health Service (I.H.S.). The following year, Emery Johnson was appointed Director of the I.H.S., the fourth in the bureau's history. This series consists of reports, correspondence, memoranda, procedural documents, meeting material, manuscripts, and printed matter from Johnson's tenure as director. It documents the activities of many specific medical centers, area offices, and health programs from all across the country as well as...

Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1968, the Division of Indian Health was renamed the Indian Health Service (I.H.S.). The following year, Emery Johnson was appointed Director of the I.H.S., the fourth in the bureau's history. This series consists of reports, correspondence, memoranda, procedural documents, meeting material, manuscripts, and printed matter from Johnson's tenure as director. It documents the activities of many specific medical centers, area offices, and health programs from all across the country as well as...

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The Henles' correspondence dates from 1955 until Werner's death in 1987. The bulk of the correspondence was Werner's and is professional in nature. A small portion of the correspondence contains personal letters or greeting cards from family, friends, and colleagues. This series also contains research reports and conference presentations that were placed in the original correspondence boxes.

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The Henles' correspondence dates from 1955 until Werner's death in 1987. The bulk of the correspondence was Werner's and is professional in nature. A small portion of the correspondence contains personal letters or greeting cards from family, friends, and colleagues. This series also contains research reports and conference presentations that were placed in the original correspondence boxes.

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, photographs, research materials, writings, and drafts (1912-1977; 5.88 linear feet) document the official portion of Heinz von Diringshofen's career in aviation and space medicine research. From the development of the human centrifuge in 1934 until his death in 1967, Diringshofen was instrumental to the advancement of aviation and space medicine. The collection consists largely of materials documenting Diringshofen's laboratory and research activities and of...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Notes and reports generated from work at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco make up the largest portion of the collection, devoted to biophysics, melanoma and melanin research, and the development of medical informatics (1952-1989); the same subjects are covered in a collection of articles and speeches written by Blois (1951-1987). The collection also contains scant correspondence (1953-1988), notes from physics course work taken at Stanford University...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, photographs, research materials, writings, and drafts (1912-1977; 5.88 linear feet) document the official portion of Heinz von Diringshofen's career in aviation and space medicine research. From the development of the human centrifuge in 1934 until his death in 1967, Diringshofen was instrumental to the advancement of aviation and space medicine. The collection consists largely of materials documenting Diringshofen's laboratory and research activities and of...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, lab notes, photographs, articles, and reprints document the active research career of Grant L. Rasmussen, an anatomist who spent the majority of his career at NIH. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Rasmussen and his many professional colleagues during his tenure at NIH. The correspondence in Series 2 is divided into early letters during his student and teaching careers at the University of Utah, University of Minnesota, Medical...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, subject files, journals, photographs, maps, awards, and electronic media document the wide and varied scientific and ethnological career of Carleton Gajdusek. Gajdusek's multi-disciplinary interests make the collection extremely diverse and appealing to researchers in several disciplines including anthropology, biology, ethnology, geography, linguistics, medicine, primitive arts, and psychology. The bulk of the collection is contained in Series 2: Correspondence, Series 3:...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, photographs, research materials, reports, writings, and audiovisual materials (1936; 1944-1993, 17.5 linear feet) document the official portion of Paul MacLean's career in brain and behavioral research. Through his research at Yale Medical School and at the National Institute of Mental Health, MacLean was instrumental in developing and expounding the theory of the Triune Brain. Highlights of the collection include 33 years of project reports from the NIMH Laboratory of Brain...