Reminiscences of John Black Grant, 1961

Biographical Note

Public health officer

Scope and Contents

Education in China, Nova Scotia, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins; International Health Board; work on hookworm in North Carolina, China; foundation and early years of Peking Union Medical College; Peking Health Station; setting up first Ministry of Health in China, 1929; political problems and relationships; public health organization in Japan; Rockeffeler Foundation program; Institute of Public Health in Tokyo, 1932; public health work in Yugoslavia; rural reconstruction in China and India; problems of social medicine in United States, Europe, and Canada; international organizations. Impressions of Victor Heiser, Joseph Mountin, Selskar Gunn, Roger Greene, and Wickliffe Rose.

Subjects

• Benison, Saul, interviewer.
• East Asia--Civilization.
• Grant, John B. (John Black), 1890-1962--Interviews.
• International agencies.
• Interviews.
• Medicine--Research.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Public health--International cooperation.
• Public health--Research.
• Public health personnel--Interviews.
• Regional medical programs.
• Rockefeller Foundation.
• Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Board.
• Zhongguo xie he yi ke da xue.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976