Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Health sciences project : oral history, 1962-1967.Scope and ContentsA study of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS), its contribution to the formation and growth of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Those interviewed include administrators and researchers within the NIH as well as healds of related government agencies and university professors in the bio-medical field. Such issues as the changing role of the federal government in relation to research and training in the health field, the transition from service to research within the USPHS, and the value of epidemiological fieldwork are discussed. Note is made of the development of categorial institutes within the NIH, the bureaucratization and specialization of research, and the political underpinnings of the expansion of the health sciences.
Participants and pagination: Ernest M. Allen, 61; Howard B. Andervont, 108; Carl Baker, 191; Wiliam R.Bryan, 75; Leroy E. Burney, 68;
G. Robert Coatney, 119; Lowell T. Coggeshall, 63; Martin M. Cummings, 47; W. Palmer Dearing, 96; Warren F. Draper, 59; Rolla E. Dyer, 46; Kenneth M. Endicott, 53; Isidore S. Falk, 79; Robert H. Felix, 73; Arthur S. Flemming, 44; Marion B. Folsom, 123; Victor H. Haas, 149; John R. Heller, Jr., 58; Herman Hilleboe, 130; Vane M. Hoge, 42; Mark Hollis, 72; James M. Hundley, 76; Carlyle Jacobsen, 59; Charles V. Kidd, 68; Lawrence Kolb, 73; Alexander D. Langmuir, 57; Esmond R. Long, 96; Jack Masur, 32; Leonard Mayo, 76; Joseph S. Murtaugh, 53; Thomas Parran, 133; George S. Perrott, 73; David E. Price, 36; Leonard A. Scheele, 70; William Henry Sebrell, Jr., 56; James A. Shannon, 67; Murray J. Shear, 190; William P. Shepard, 53; Wilson George Smillie, 61; Roscoe Spencer, 117; Harold L. Stewart, 58; Frederick L. Stone, 35; Norman Topping, 58; Cassius J. Van Slyke, 74.
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