Oral history interview with Robert Briggs Watson, 1968

Biographical Note

Physician

Scope and Contents

Family background; education; medical officer, Norris Dam Project, Tennessee Valley Authority; malaria control in Tennessee Valley; malaria control in World War II; use of anti-malarial drugs in Pacific Theater; field staff of Rockefeller Foundation, 1946; travels in Latin America; work with Chinese government on malaria control from 1946; Taiwan, 1948; work in Japan, Korea, Philippines, Macao; medical education in India and public health problems; work in Brazil and South America; fellowships and policy; training teachers for medical schools; role of foundations

Subjects

• Hopper, Paul, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Malaria--Immunological aspects.
• Medical education--Developing countries.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Public health--Developing countries.
• Rockefeller Foundation.
• Tennessee Valley Authority.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• Watson, Robert Briggs, 1903-1978--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984