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Transcripts and tapes of interviews on the child development movement

 Collection
Identifier: OH 20

Abstract

Interviews of significant researchers and public figures from the 1970s era of the child development movement.

Dates

  • 1963-1975

Extent

2.5 Linear Feet (6 boxes (98 interviews))

Creator

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

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Biographical Note

Milton J. E. Senn was born in Milwaukee in 1902. He earned his M.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1925 and served as a fellow in pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis from 1928 to 1933. He moved to Cornell University Medical School in 1933 as a professor of pediatrics. In 1939, upon completing at 2-year Commonwealth Fund fellowship, Dr. Senn became a psychoanalyst. In 1948 he was appointed director of the Yale University Medical School's Child Study Center. During an 18-year period, Senn expanded the Center's emphasis to one which applied insights from child psychiatry to pediatrics. From 1951 to 1964 he also simultaneously chaired the Pediatrics department at the Yale University Medical School. After 1966 he continued at Yale as Sterling Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. Dr. Senn died June 8, 1990.

Collection Summary

Interviews of significant researchers and public figures the 1970s era of the child development movement. Senn used these interviews as source material for his book Speaking out for America's children (1977).

Abstract

Interviews of significant researchers and public figures from the 1970s era of the child development movement.

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Provenance

Gift, Milton Senn.

General

Processed by
HMD Staff
Processing Completed
1970s; 2016
Encoded by
Jai Lin Baldwin
Title
Finding Aid to transcripts and tapes of interviews on the child development movement, 1963-1975
Status
Unverified Partial Draft
Author
HMD Staff
Date
1970s; June 2016
Language of description
English
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English
Edition statement
1.0

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collection Collecting Area

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