Reminiscences of Mark D. Hollis : oral history, 1964.

Biographical Note

Public health service officer.

Scope and Contents

Father's career in Public Health Service; fieldwork on parasite behavior patterns in Brill's disease; expansion of Public Health Service typhus fever investigation; establishment of Communicable Disease Center; beginnings of categorical approach to disease control, study of chronic disease; impressions of Thomas Parran, Joseph Mountin, Thompson, Dyer; World War II civil defense work; establishment of Cancer Institute; need for study of environmental contaminants, long term policy planning; increasing specialization of research, narrowing of long term vison; changing emphasis of public health work from service to research; relationship of National Institutes of Health and Bureau of State Services.

Subjects

• Cancer--Research.
• Civil defense.
• Health officers--Interviews.
• Hollis, Mark D., 1908-
• Interviews.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Public health--Research.
• Public health administration.
• United States. Public Health Service.

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