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Public Health
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Leonidas H. Berry Papers
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, and lectures. In addition to his long and distinguished medical career as a pioneering gastroenterologist and influential African-American physician, Dr. Berry was active in teaching, writing, and community public service.
Letter from Alan Gregg to William I. Myers
Lister Hill Health Related Papers Microfilm Collection
Health related material selected out of the larger Lister Hill collection, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The bulk of the material (76 reels) pertains to Hill's last 22 years in the Senate (1946-68). Topics include the Hill-Burton Act, Medicare, and assistance to hospitals serving minorities, the poor, and other underserved populations.
Louis I. Dublin Papers
Dr. Dublin, vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was with that institution from 1909-52. A sizable portion of the collection consists of material relating to Dr. Dublin's publications.
Medical Society of the District of Columbia Records
Society and Executive Board meeting minutes, committee records, subject files, correspondence, mailings, event fliers, publications, newsletters, financial ledgers, legal briefs, and published legal proceedings document the formal operations of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. The Medical Society of the District of Columbia (MSDC) is a professional advocacy organization for physicians practicing in and around the District of Columbia.
Memorandum Relative to the Development of National and International Programs of Public Health
Consists of a cover letter from Rupert Blue to William H. Welch, dated March 18, 1919 and an eleven-page memo. A copy of Blue's "Memorandum relative to the development of national and international programs of public health" was included, intending to inform Welch of Blue's "views in regard to the relation of the Public Health Service with the development of a national health post-war program."
National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Records
Briefing books, hearing and meeting transcripts, reports, and press clippings document the activities of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Materials cover all but the last year of the Commission's existence. The majority of the collection consists of briefing books, and hearing and meeting transcripts of the National Commission.
PHS Centennial archive
UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Background material, readings, and correspondence organized by subject. Interviews with T. Cooper, P. Ehrlich, P. Lee, and J. Richmond, Edward D. Martin, C. Everett Koop, Edward Brandt, Leroy Burney, W. Palmer Dearing, Merlin DuVal, John Eason, Roger Egeberg, Charles Miller, William Stewart, and Robert Windom. Tapes, no transcripts.; Contains photographs of the Kintner family, and material on the Perkins Committee, received from Seggel.
Ralph C. Williams Papers
Correspondence, photographs, captions, and short essays relating to the history of the U.S. Public Health Service and exhibits that were prepared on aspects of the same topic.