Reminiscences of Josephine Evarts, 1980.

Biographical Note

Physician; interviewee married Charles N. Demarest

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood in Vermont; Vassar, 1920-24; College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, N.Y., 1924-28; internship, Bellevue Hospital, 1928-29; medical practice in Kent, Conneticut, and Millerton, New York; association with Sharon Hospital, 1929-81 and Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, 1968-71; views on doctors' fees, alcohol and drug addiction, medical ethics and research, care of elderly

Subjects

• Bellevue Hospital.
• College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York.
• Connecticut--Description and travel.
• Evarts, Josephine, 1901-1983--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Medical education.
• Medical ethics.
• Medicine--Practice.
• Mental health.
• New York (State)--Description and travel.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Vassar College.
• Women physicians--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984