Reminiscences of Ernest Beutler : oral history, 1990.

Biographical Note

Physician, hematologist

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education; admission to medical school, age 17, University of Chicago; antisemitism at major institutions; choice of hematology as specialty; influence of Leon Jacobson: value of small department, technicians, good intra-departmental relations; Army Malaria Project, Joliet, III.; work with prison population on primaquine sensitivity; work in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malaria, sickle cell disease; Fort Dietrick, Frederick, Md.; City of Hope Hospital, Los Angeles, chair, Department of Medicine, 1959; insight into x Inactivation hypothesis; red cell isolation, storage, mutation; interdependence of hematology and oncology; development of test for galactosemia; glycolipid storage diseases, Gaucher's disease, Fabry disease; Tay Sach's disease, Sandhoff's disease, enzyme defeciencies; president, American Society of Hematologists, late 70's; bone marrow transplantation program, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, 1978; progress of blood genetics; importance of technologicaladvances of the 80s; bone marrow transplant effects on leukemia, sickle cell; ethics of science; changes in National Institute of Health policy, medical policy, disease funding; computers

Subjects

• Antisemitism.
• Beutler, Ernest, 1928-2008--Interviews.
• Bone marrow--Transplantation.
• Enzymes.
• Federal aid to research.
• Galactosemias.
• Genetics--Research.
• Glycolipids.
• Hematology.
• Interviews.
• Malaria.
• Medical ethics.
• Medical research personnel--Interviews.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oncology.
• Oral histories (document genres)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Sickle cell anemia.
• Tay-Sachs disease.
• Wailoo, Keith, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1991