Reminiscences of Herman Ertresvaag Hilleboe : oral history, 1964.

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Family background, education; work at Institute of Child Welfare; early work on biostatistics and epidemiology; Minnesota Department of Social Welfare (1935-39), children's clinics; development of tuberculosis detection methods; establishment of national tuberculosis control program, 1942; evolution of Public Health Service; growth of National Institute of Health, its adminstrators; role and politics of open-ended research in local health departments; New York Commissioner of Health (1947-63): responsibilities, accomplishments; relationship with New York medical societies; battle with New York chiropractors; establishment of comprehensive child care program, rehabilitation centers; value of state interdepartmental coordination of human resources planning.

Subjects

• Child health services.
• Health officers--Interviews.
• Hilleboe, Herman E. (Herman Ertresvaag), 1906-1974.
• Interviews.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Public health--Research.
• Tuberculosis.
• United States. Public Health Service.

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