Public Health
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
George M. Kober Papers
Hugh S. Cumming Papers
Consists of information on international health organizations and related material, 1945-1946. Includes memoranda from Thomas Parran. Also includes cover letter from Howard B. Calderwood, dated 1977.
Ira Vaughn Hiscock Papers
Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, drafts, reprints, and miscellaneous public health data. Includes material on: Arkansas-Mississippi flood (1927), "A national plan for health services" (1934), "Greater Boston community survey" (1949), and "A five year plan ... in Connecticut" (1964). Also contains health data relating to other countries, especially China. Includes notes and printed matter pertaining to W. Frank Walker.
Jacob N. Shanberge Medical Stamp Collection
The collection includes stamps issued by nations, principalities, protectorates, and other geopolitical entities, as well as organizations such as the United Nations.
James A. Shannon Papers
Correspondence, talks, articles, reports and documents, photographs, certificates and diplomas. Dr. Shannon was on the faculty of the New York University College of Medicine from 1929-46. In 1946 he joined the National Institutes of Health, and from 1955-68 Dr. Shannon was Director of the NIH. In 1970 he became Professor and Special Assistant to the President of the Rockefeller University.
James Angus Doull Papers
Correspondence, notes, articles, photos and printed matter devoted primarily to Doull's research on medical history during his tenure at Johns Hopkins University in the 1920s. Also contains documentation Doull used as a delegate to the International Health Conference in 1946.
John Shaw Billings Papers at New York Public Library [microform]
When John Shaw Billings left the Army in 1895 to become first a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter the director of the New York Public Library, he took with him many of his personal and professional papers.
Joseph W. Mountin Reprints
An incomplete set of the collected reprints of Joseph W. Mountin relating to his work with the Public Health Service on regional public health.
Lawrence Kolb Papers
Dr. Lawrence Kolb was a pioneer in the medical approach to narcotics addiction treatment and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was one of the first to advocate treating drug addicts as patients, not criminals. The collection deals chiefly with the subjects of drug addiction, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and mental health.