Reminiscences of John Roderick Heller, Jr. : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Venereal disease research in the South, clinical investigations; value of Cooperative Clinical Group; wartime emergency health sanitation activity; Chief of Venereal Disease Division 1943-48: establishment of rapid treatment centers; Director of National Cancer Institute 1948-60: intramural research programs, increasing complexity of extramural grant review; Public Health Service role in establishing state sanitation standards; development, value of Clinical Center; Congressional support for National Institutes of Health growth.

Subjects

• Cancer--Research.
• Federal aid to research.
• Health officers--Interviews.
• Health services administration.
• Heller, John R. (John Roderick), 1905-
• Interviews.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Physicians--Interviews.
• United States. Public Health Service. Division of Venereal Diseases.

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