Oral history interview with Isidor Schwaner Ravdin, 1962

Biographical Note

Surgeon

Scope and Contents

B.A. Indiana University; M.D. University of Pennsylvania; academic surgery; specific procedures in gastrointestinal surgery in early 1930s; impact of World War II; 20th General Hospital in the China-Burma-India theater of war; academic surgery at Pennsylvania after World War II

Subjects

• Benison, Saul, interviewer.
• Gastroenterology.
• Interviews.
• Land, Barbara, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Ravdin, Isidore S. (Isidore Schwaner), 1894---Interviews.
• Surgeons--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975