Bertram Brown Papers

Although the records cover the years 1884 through 1988, the bulk of the records were created from the years 1960 through 1980. The papers generally contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, congressional testimony, legislative material, press releases, news clippings, speeches, meeting materials and minutes, published articles, course papers, notes, photographic prints, audio and video recordings, and memorabilia. Significant topics of interest to researchers covered in the papers include federal mental health care policy, mental retardation, drug abuse and alcoholism prevention, community mental health centers, the causes of violence, criminal justice, child mental health, the effects of poverty and racism on mental health, and international mental health policy. Organizations of importance covered in the papers include the National Institute of Mental Health, The President's Panel on Mental Retardation, the President's Commission on Mental Health, and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Drug Abuse Prevention.

This series documents Dr. Brown's medical education which combined training in medicine, psychiatry, and public health. The records largely consist of course handouts, lecture and seminar notes, notebooks, class papers, and examinations. Folders are arranged alphabetically by educational institution and thereafter by course, conference, and/or lecture topic.

Records largely cover Dr. Brown's medical education at Cornell University Medical School (1952-1960), an internship at Yale University School of Medicine, School of Pediatrics (1957-1960), and Harvard University School of Public Health (1959-1960) where he earned a Masters degree in Public Health. Other material in the series include notes taken by Dr. Brown during a position he held as a clinical clerk in neurology and neurosurgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the summer of 1955. Records from Dr. Brown's early education in Brooklyn public schools and from courses taken at Brooklyn College as an undergraduate from 1940-1952 are also contained among the records.

Dates for some of the undated records in this Medical Education series have been established using Cornell University Medical College announcements for 1952/53 through 1956/57.

(Lecture Notes, Handouts, Course Materials)