Reminiscences of Alexander Duncan Langmuir : oral history, 1964.

Biographical Note

Educator, epidemiologist.

Scope and Contents

Cornell Medical School; malaria study; internship, Boston City Hospital; Massachusetts Nautical School work; Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases member, World War II, Fort Bragg; study of Army pneumonia, flu epidemics; teaching at Johns Hopkins; development of Communicable Disease Center and its role as epidemic control service agency; immunization programs, importance of directed research.

Subjects

• Epidemics.
• Epidemiologists--Interviews.
• Epidemiology--Research.
• Interviews.
• Langmuir, Alexander Duncan, 1910-
• Medicine--Research.
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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