Reminiscences of Warren Palmer Dearing : oral history, 1964.

Biographical Note

Public official.

Scope and Contents

Family background, education; Public Health Service, 1934; West Coast polio outbreak; work at Boston Marine Hospital; tubercolosis and polio epidemiology and control study with Lumsden in 1930s; Civil Defense Planning work, World War II; personnel problem analysis for Public Health Service; establishment of research committees and administration for public health programs; relationship of financial support and medical education and research; influence of American Medical Association on medical program policy planning.

Subjects

• Dearing, Warren Palmer, 1905-1994.
• Health officers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Medical education.
• Medicine--Research.
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Poliomyelitis.
• Public health--Research.
• Public health--United States.
• Tuberculosis.
• United States. Public Health Service.

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