Reminiscences of Helen Brooke Taussig : oral history, 1975.

Biographical Note

Cardiologist.

Scope and Contents

Medical training, Johns Hopkins; internship; establishment of cardiac clinic: work with congenital malformations, early heart surgery for "blue babies"; American Heart Association activities, support from United States Children's Bureau; study of thalidomide deformities; concern for abortion, animal legislation, fetal research.

Subjects

• Abnormalities, Human.
• Abortion.
• American Heart Association.
• Cardiologists--Interviews.
• Fetus--Research.
• Infants--Surgery.
• Interviews.
• Janeway, Charles A., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.
• Pediatric cardiology.
• Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986.
• United States. Children's Bureau.
• Women surgeons--Interviews.

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