Reminiscences of William T. Shepard : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Physician, public health offices.

Scope and Contents

Tuberculosis work in Mid-West; City Health Officer, Berkeley; early days of Public Health Service; development of public health research and administration from 1920s; accreditation of public health schools; growth of preventive medicine; importance of continuing education for doctors; health advisory councils; establishment of primate research centers; effects of Fountain Committee on National Institutes of Health research.

Subjects

• Health officers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Medical education.
• Medical scientists--Interviews.
• Medicine--Research.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Public health--United States.
• Public health administration.
• Shepard, William T., 1895-
• United States. Public Health Service.

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