Reminiscences of Thomas Parran : oral history, 1962.

Biographical Note

Physician, Government executive.

Scope and Contents

Educational background; typhoid investigation; community support for public health personnel; rural sanitation, disease control assignments; attempts to establish local and county health units; director of Division of Venereal Disease: study of control methods, legislative recommendations, establishment of Cooperative Clinical Group; relation of Public Health Service to universities; New York State public health program development; effects of social security legislation; duties as Surgeon General, 1936-1948; origins of grant-in-aid program; Clinical Center; National Advisory Health Council; impetus for national health insurance.

Subjects

• Government executives--Interviews.
• Health officers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Parran, Thomas, Jr., 1892-1968.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Public health--Research.
• Public health--United States.
• Public health administration.
• Public health laws.
• United States. Public Health Service. Division of Venereal Diseases.