Reminiscences of Leonard Andrew Scheele : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Public Health Service (PHS) assignments; establishment of research clinics; grant procedures for PHS hospitals; lung cancer epidemiology,; establishment of chronic as well as communicable disease programs; planning clinical center; National Institute of Health managerial policies; establishment of other institutes; public relations programs; effects of World War II on PHS expansion; coordination of research and control programs; expansion to extramural research grants; appointment as Surgeon General of the United States, 1948; future of PHS.

Subjects

• Health services administration.
• Interviews.
• Medicine--Research.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Public health--United States.
• Scheele, Leonard Andrew, 1907-1993.
• United States. Public Health Service.

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