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Hospital administration oral history collection, 1982-1986.

Title: Hospital administration oral history collection, 1982-1986.

Oral history interviews conducted by Lewis E. Weeks. Those interviewed include Faye G. Adbellah, Odin W. Anderson, Lowell E. Bellin, George Bugbee, Montague Cobb, Wilbur J. Cohen, Edward J. Connors, George Crile, Jr., Nelson H. Cruikshank, Robert M. Cunningham, Jr., Leon Davis, Avedis Donabedian, I.S. Falk, Gary L. Filerman, James Hague, James A. Hamilton, Gerhard Hartman, Karl S. Klicka, John Robert Mannix, Walter J. McNerney, Wilbur D. Mills, Maurice J. Norby, Andrew Pattullo, Earl Perloff, Daniel Pettengill, Haynes Rice, C. Rufus Rorem, William A. Rothman, Robert M. Sigmond, Vergil Slee, Anne Ramsey Somers, Richard J. Stull, Kerr White, and Kenneth Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 34 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155473248 View

Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984. Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1963.

Title: Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1963.

Family background; professorship at University of Chicago; reorganization of Chicago City Health Department; development of medical care, costs in 1920s; American Association for Labor Legislation's campaign for health insurance; Committee on the Costs of Medical Care (CCMC); American Medical Association opposition to CCMC's group practice recommendation; voluntary vs. compulsory health insurance; Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Milbank Memorial Fund and Cabinet Committee on Economic Security: move from state to national health insurance proposals; public health vs. economic security aspects of legislation; Title VI of Social Security Act; Public Health work; birth of National Institutes of Health, grants-in-aid funding proposals; Social Security Board.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 79 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122481519 View

Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984. Isidore Sydney Falk papers, 1918-1984 (inclusive).

Title: Isidore Sydney Falk papers, 1918-1984 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, professional files, research materials, writings, personal papers, and printed matter documenting Isidore Falk's career as an advocate of national health insurance and other programs related to public health. Of particular significance are the materials from his years with the Social Security Board (1936-1954), which document the campaign for government supported health insurance in the United States. Falk conducted public health and medical care surveys for the World Bank in Malaya, Singapore, Panama and the Canal Zone, and also prepared a survey of Union health programs (1958-1960) for the United Steelworkers of America. He founded the Community Health Care Center Plan in New Haven and the files record his activities as director (1970-1979). His active participation in professional organizations is reflected in correspondence and other papers. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 100.75 linear ft. (229 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154352 View

Jordan, Edwin Oakes. Papers, 1888-1936

Title: Jordan, Edwin Oakes. Papers 1888-1936

Edwin Oakes Jordan, bacteriologist. The papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, minutes, research reports, and student notes. The Papers document Jordan's career as a bacteriologist at the University of Chicago, contacts with professional colleagues and organizations, consulting work with public health boards and private companies. Major correspondents include Henry H. Donaldson, Isidore S. Falk, Ludvig Hektoen, William H. Welch, and W.M. Wheeler. Topics covered include food poisoning, milk-borne diseases, the American Red Cross and public health issues.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.JORDAN View

Falk, Isidore Sydney, 1899-. The reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk, 1965; 1968, [microform].

Title: The reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk, 1965; 1968, [microform].

A transcript of Isidore Sydney Falk's oral history interviews with Peter A. Corning. Falk discuses his childhood and early education, his early work in public health, health insurance and immigration, the development of Blue Cross, Social Security, the Committee on Economic Security, the Milbank Fund, and the American Medical Association. Forms part of Columbia University Oral History Collection (Part Three).

ArchivalResource: 4 microfiches.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86132013 View

Caldwell B. Esselstyn papers, 1945-1964

Title: Caldwell B. Esselstyn papers 1945-1964

Correspondence, professional files, subject files, writings, personal and family papers, and printed material. The papers document Esselstyn's pioneering work as founder and director of the Rip Van Winkle Clinic in New York state (1946-1964). The papers also chart Esselstyn's career as director of the Community Health Association of Detroit (1964-1967), as associate director of the New York Metropolitan Regional Medical Program (1967-1968), as a member of the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council (1967-1971), and his post as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York. There is only a small amount of personal, family, and financial papers. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 40 linear feet (96 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1171 View

Jordan, Edwin Oakes, 1866-1936. Papers, 1888-1936 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1888-1936 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, minutes, research reports, and student notes. Papers document aspects of Jordan's career as a bacteriologist at the University of Chicago, contacts with professional colleagues and organizations, consulting work with public health boards and private companies. Major correspondents include Henry H. Donaldson, Isidore S. Falk, Ludvig Hektoen, William H. Welch, and W.M. Wheeler. Topics covered include food poisoning, milk-borne diseases, the American Red Cross and public health issues.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52248229 View

Witte, Edwin E. (Edwin Emil), 1887-1960. Edwin E. Witte papers, 1903-1970.

Title: Edwin E. Witte papers, 1903-1970.

Primarily professional papers of Edwin E. Witte, a University of Wisconsin economist, specialist in labor legislation, and the chief author of the Social Security Act of 1935; including correspondence, research files, articles, speeches, lecture notes, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and audio recordings.

ArchivalResource: 124.7 c.f. (276 archives boxes, 15 flat boxes, 6 card file boxes, and 1 volume) and2 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plusadditions of 4.3 c.f.38 photographs, and14 disc recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700412 View

Social security files, 1932-1957.

Title: Social security files, 1932-1957.

Includes letters, memoranda, and reports of the meetings of the United States Social Security Advisory Council during the period Cohen served as its technical advisor (1937-1938), as well as correspondence, reports, notes, pamphlets, statistical studies and other documents assembled by Cohen, relating to economic security.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122685295 View

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers, 1874-1977, 1915-1945

Title: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers 1874-1977 1915-1945

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, organization and subject files, teaching materials, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of C.-E.A. Winslow, a prominent figure in the public health movement. Correspondence focuses on health and social welfare issues with several notable educators, doctors, and social policy advocates. Organization files include material relating to the United States Public Health Service and the American Public Health Association. Records of the Association's Committee on the Cost of Medical Care are also included, as are teaching files from Yale Univesity, writings and lectures, reprints of articles, and family papers. Anne Rogers Winslow's photographic journals of her husband's American Red Cross mission to the Soviet Union in 1917 is an example of family material. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 69 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0749 View

American Public Health Association records, 1938-1972

Title: American Public Health Association records 1938-1972

Papers collected by Arthur J. Viseltear in connection with his research on the development of the American Public Health Association's Medical Care Section. Included are relevant records from the organization (1940-1957) documenting its research into the question of incorporating medical care into public health with special reports on medical care for the indigent, rural medicine, and relations between hospitals and health departments. In 1948 the advocates of medical care succeeded with the establishment of a Medical Care Section of the APHA and papers of the Section (1948-1972) are also in the collection. The bulk of these records are from 1967 to 1972. Included are correspondence, memoranda, minutes, texts of papers presented at annual meetings and other documents, as well as the files of fourteen administrative and subject committees within the Medical Care Section. Viseltear also contributed his own research and interview notes together with journal articles and printed materials related to the question of medical care and public health, which form a useful source of background material. Major correspondents in the papers include Reginald M. Atwater, Lester Breslow, Dean A. Clark, Haven Emerson, Isidore S. Falk, Franz Goldmann, Wilton L. Halverson, and C.-E. A. Winslow. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet (15 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0810 View

Hiscock, Ira Vaughan, 1892-. Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers, 1918-1979 (inclusive), 1925-1939 (bulk).

Title: Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers, 1918-1979 (inclusive), 1925-1939 (bulk).

Correspondence, office files, research materials, and writings documenting Ira Vaughan Hiscock's role as a public health educator, author, consultant, and volunteer, primarily from 1925-1939. Papers illustrate efforts of local, state, and national social welfare agencies in dealing with social problems during the Depression. These papers are part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear ft. (87 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702205907 View

Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers, 1874-1977 (inclusive), 1915-1945 (bulk).

Title: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers, 1874-1977 (inclusive), 1915-1945 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, organization and subject files, teaching materials, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of C.-E.A. Winslow, a prominent figure in the public health movement. Correspondence focuses on health and social welfare issues with several notable educators, doctors, and social policy advocates. Organization files include material relating to the United States Public Health Service and the American Public Health Association. Records of the Association's Committee on the Cost of Medical Care are also included, as are teaching files from Yale University, writings and lectures, reprints of articles, and family papers. Anne Rogers Winslow's photographic journals of her husband's American Red Cross mission to the Soviet Union in 1917 is an example of family material. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 69 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702158895 View

Altmeyer, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1891-1972. Arthur J. Altmeyer papers, 1904-1973.

Title: Arthur J. Altmeyer papers, 1904-1973.

Papers of Arthur Joseph Altmeyer who as member and chairman of the Social Security Board and as Commissioner of Social Security guided the development of the federal social security program from 1935 to 1953. In addition he served as a member of the executive committee of the National Youth Administration (NYA), 1935; member of the Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities, 1935-1940; member of the War Manpower Commission, 1942-1945; and United States delegate to several international conferences and organizations. With the exception of several early speeches and writings, the papers relate to Altmeyer's work in the federal government and his later consulting work, with the major portions pertaining to his administration of the Social Security Act. Correspondence, memoranda, and reports chiefly concern the National Recovery Administration, 1933-1934; the National Health Conference, 1938; the United States Employment Service, 1939-1949; unemployment compensation, 1940-1949; public assistance, 1938-1953; and old-age and survivors' insurance (OASI), 1937-1953. Among Altmeyer's correspondents were Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, several presidential assistants, Federal Security Administration heads Paul V. McNutt, Oscar Ewing, and Oveta Culp Hobby, and University of Wisconsin economist Edwin E. Witte, as well as Robert Ball, Wilbur J. Cohen, and Isidore S. Falk. Files of Altmeyer's speeches, press releases, and articles; personal correspondence files of Altmeyer and his wife, Ethel May Thomas; and reference files on national health insurance, pension plans, welfare, and social security are also included in the collection. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1904-1973, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1937-1968 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 16.6 c.f. (36 archives boxes and 1 flat box); plus.additions of 0.6 c.f.153 photographs.1 negative, and.6 pieces of ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701366 View

Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers, 1918-1979, 1925-1939

Title: Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers 1918-1979 1925-1939

Correspondence, office files, research materials, and writings documenting Ira Vaughan Hiscock's role as a public health educator, author, consultant, and volunteer, primarily from 1925-1939. Papers illustrate efforts of local, state, and national social welfare agencies in dealing with social problems during the Depression. These papers are part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (87 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1284 View

Edwin Richard Weinerman papers, 1908-1970

Title: Edwin Richard Weinerman papers 1908-1970

Correspondence, consultations, surveys, writings, printed material, and other papers of Edwin Richard Weinerman. Material primarily reflects Weinerman's interest in public health and deals with his activities both as a consultant and administrator with various public and private health careorganizations, including the U. S. Public Health Service, Permanente Health Plan, American Public Health Association, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital. A significant part of the collection also relates to Weinerman's social and political activities, especially his concern over dangers of air pollution, nuclear warfare and radiation poisoning, and his opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Levering Act which required loyalty oaths as a condition for medical licensure. The papers also include notebooks and course papers from his own studies at Harvard and New York University (1945-1948) as well as teaching materials from the University of California. His professional program is documented in grant applications (1963-1972), two speeches and letters written in preparation for his trip abroad in 1970, collected works (articles), and curriculum vitae. Also in the papers are letters of condolence and a transcript and audio tapes of the memorial service at Yale University following his death in 1970. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 59.5 linear feet (100 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0692 View

American Public Health Association. American Public Health Association records, 1938-1972 (inclusive).

Title: American Public Health Association records, 1938-1972 (inclusive).

Papers collected by Arthur J. Viseltear in connection with his research on the development of the American Public Health Association's Medical Care Section. Included are relevant records from the organization (1940-1957) documenting its research into the question of incorporating medical care into public health with special reports on medical care for the indigent, rural medicine, and relations between hospitals and health departments.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft. (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702206487 View

Rosen, George, 1910-. George Rosen papers, 1912-1978 (inclusive).

Title: George Rosen papers, 1912-1978 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, writings, photographs, and other materials documenting the professional and scholarly career of George Rosen. Also included are files from the American Public Health Association and editorial files of the American Journal of Public Health and Ciba Symposia. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 15.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167307 View

Microfilm Reels of the Committee for the Nation's Health Records from the Michael M. Davis Collection, In the New York Academy of Medicine, 1939-1955 (bulk 1946-1955)

Title: Microfilm Reels of the Committee for the Nation's Health Records from the Michael M. Davis Collection, In the New York Academy of Medicine 1939-1955 (bulk 1946-1955)

Incorporated 1946 with Michael M. Davis, Ph.D., as chair of its Executive Committee, its purpose was to promote national health insurance. With the election of Eisenhower in 1952 it began to function as a health information office for organized labor. The committee was abolished in January, 1956.

ArchivalResource:

http://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/cnhr View

Esselstyn, Caldwell B., 1902-1975. Caldwell B. Esselstyn papers, 1945-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Caldwell B. Esselstyn papers, 1945-1964 (inclusive).

Correspondence, professional files, subject files, writings, personal and family papers, and printed material. The papers document Esselstyn's pioneering work as founder and director of the Rip Van Winkle Clinic in New York state (1946-1964). The papers also chart Esselstyn's career as director of the Community Health Association of Detroit (1964-1967), as associate director of the New York Metropolitan Regional Medical Program (1967-1968), as a member of the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council (1967-1971), and his post as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York. There is only a small amount of personal, family, and financial papers. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 40 linear ft. (96 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702204583 View

Weinerman, E. Richard (Edwin Richard), 1917-1970. Edwin Richard Weinerman papers, 1908-1970 (inclusive).

Title: Edwin Richard Weinerman papers, 1908-1970 (inclusive).

Correspondence, consultations, surveys, writings, printed material, and other papers of Edwin Richard Weinerman. Material primarily reflects Weinerman's interest in public health and deals with his activities both as a consultant and administrator with various public and private health careorganizations, including the U. S. Public Health Service, Permanente Health Plan, American Public Health Association, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital. A significant part of the collection also relates to Weinerman's social and political activities, especially his concern over dangers of air pollution, nuclear warfare and radiation poisoning, and his opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Levering Act which required loyalty oaths as a condition for medical licensure. The papers also include notebooks and course papers from his own studies at Harvard and New York University (1945-1948) as well as teaching materials from the University of California. His professional program is documented in grant applications (1963-1972), two speeches and letters written in preparation for his trip abroad in 1970, collected works (articles), and curriculum vitae. Also in the papers are letters of condolence and a transcript and audio tapes of the memorial service at Yale University following his death in 1970. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 59.5 linear ft. (100 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153749 View

Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984. Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1968.

Title: Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1968.

Early interest in health insurance; teaching at University of Chicago and service on Chicago Board of Health, 1923-1929; Committee on Costs of Medical Care; effect of recommendation for group practice and group payment; voluntary vs. compulsory insurance; New Deal and background of Social Security legislation; Technical Committee and Advisory Council, Committee on Economic Security; Social Security Board, 1936; National Health Survey, 1935-1936; National Health Conference, 1938; Technical Committee on Medical Care; legislative efforts to explore and expand role of federal. government in health insurance. Impressions of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Frances Perkins, Arthur Altmeyer, Edgar Sydensticker, and many others.

ArchivalResource: Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122441124 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-F.xml View

Isidore Sydney Falk papers, 1918-1984

Title: Isidore Sydney Falk papers 1918-1984

The papers consist of correspondence, professional files, research materials, writings, personal papers, and printed matter documenting Isidore Falk's career as an advocate of national health insurance and other programs related to public health. Of particular significance are the materials from his years with the Social Security Board (1936-1954), which document the campaign for government supported health insurance in the United States. Falk conducted public health and medical care surveys for the World Bank in Malaya, Singapore, Panama and the Canal Zone, and also prepared a survey of Union health programs (1958-1960) for the United Steelworkers of America. He founded the Community Health Care Center Plan in New Haven and the files record his activities as director (1970-1979). His active participation in professional organizations is reflected in correspondence and other papers. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 100.75 linear feet (229 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1039 View