Reminiscences of Joseph Charles Aub, 1957.

Biographical Note

Physician

Scope and Contents

Education, Harvard College and Medical School; internship, Massachusetts General Hospital; metabolic research, Russell Sage laboratories; World War I service; lead poisoning; calcium metabolism; cancer research, Huntington Memorial Hospital, 1929-1943; impact of World War II on research; work at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1943-1957; early use of radioisotopes; 1911 trip to Wilfred Grenfell Mission, Labrador; magnesium metabolism; radium poisoning; hormones and cell growth; liver regeneration; work in traumatic shock, World War II; growth studies of deer; American Cancer Society; Physiological Congress, 1929; Unitarian Service Committee mission, Czechoslovakia, 1946; World Health Organization mission, India, 1953. Impressions of David Edsall, Walter Cannon, George Wislocki, Eugene DuBois, Ira Nathanson, Robley Evans

Subjects

• American Cancer Society.
• Aub, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), 1890-1973--Interviews.
• Benison, Saul, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Czechoslovakia--History--Coup d'état, 1948.
• Hospitals.
• Interviews.
• Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Medicine--Research--United States.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
• World health.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975