Reminiscences of Lawrence E. Young : oral history, 1987.

Biographical Note

Hematologist

Scope and Contents

Early life in Ohio; choice of medicine as a career; education; medical school at University of Rochester; curriculum; state of cell and hematology research in 1930s; comparison of clinical and research medicine; professional influences; progesterone research; insulin studies; human experimentation; antibodies and immune system research; growth of hematology as discipline and science; anemia research; radiation biology; teaching experience; Naval service; professional collaborations; blood bank developement; support of hematology by National Institutes of Health; leukemia research; hematology-oncology split; red cell research; involvement with American Society of Hematology; origins of journal Blood

Subjects

• American Society of Hematology.
• Anemia.
• Hematology.
• Hoffman, Eric A., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Immune system--Research.
• Insulin.
• Interviews.
• Leukemia.
• Medical research personnel--Interviews.
• Oral histories (document genres)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Progesterone.
• Young, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Eugene), 1913---Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1989