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Drews, Robert C., 1930-. Oral history interview with Robert C. Drews, Miles C. Whitener, and August W. Geise, 1980.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert C. Drews, Miles C. Whitener, and August W. Geise, 1980. 1980.

Drews, Whitener and Geise reflect back on their experiences as students at the Washington University School of Medicine in the 1950s and the value of rotating rather than specialized internships. The three physicians discuss some of the memorable faculty members, such as Mildred Trotter, Carl Moyer, Oliver Lowry, and Carl Moore. They also discuss technological and pharmacological changes over the years that have affected the practice of medicine.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 35 leaves.Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 63 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 63 min.) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61332023 View

Stevenson, Helen Wells, 1907-2004,. Oral history interview with Helen W. Stevenson and Lucy Stevenson, 1983.

Title: Oral history interview with Helen W. Stevenson and Lucy Stevenson, 1983. 1983

Helen Wells Stevenson and Lucy Stevenson discuss the life and career of Paul H. Stevenson (1890-1971). Stevenson received his B.S. degree from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio in 1913 and his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in 1916. His widow and sister relate stories about Stevenson's career as an anatomist and anthropologist at the Peking Union Medical College, where he worked in the 1920s and 1930s under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation and the China Medical Board. They also discuss Stevenson's work and interaction with prominent colleagues, such as Davidson Black and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. Stevenson's experiences in Burma and India during World War II, as part of the United States Public Health Service, is covered. Helen Stevenson describes her husband's interest in public health issues, especially those concerning mental illness and alcoholism, and his work as a consultant after the war in those areas.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 47 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (98 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (98 min.) : analog.

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Jones, Andrew B., 1890-1981,. Oral history interview with Andrew B. Jones, 1980.

Title: Oral history interview with Andrew B. Jones, 1980. 1980.

Jones discusses some of his experiences as a medical officer during World War I. He also recalls some of the changes he witnessed over the years in the field of neurology and at the Washington University School of Medicine. Jones recalls some of his colleagues, such as Vilray P. Blair, George Dock, Ernest Sachs, and Sidney Schwab.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 47 leaves.Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 53 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 53 min.) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63148603 View

Cori, C. F. (Carl Ferdinand), 1896-1984,. Oral history interview with Carl F. Cori, 1982.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl F. Cori, 1982. 1982

Cori recounts his education in Trieste and Prague and his service as a medic in World War I. He describes his early research in pharmacology in Europe and then the couple's emigration to the U.S. when Cori accepted a position as chief biochemist at the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease in Buffalo, New York in 1922. The interview covers Cori's acceptance of the position of head of the Department of Pharmacology at the Washington University School of Medicine in 1931, his gradual shift to the Department of Biochemistry and winning the Nobel Prize in 1947. Cori discusses several of his colleagues at the Washington University School of Medicine, including Leo Loeb, Joseph Erlanger, Evarts A. Graham, Robert J. Terry, Oliver Lowry, and W. McKim Marriott.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 38 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 90 min.) : analog.

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Schmitt, Francis Otto, 1903-1995,. Oral history interview with Francis Otto Schmitt, 1982.

Title: Oral history interview with Francis Otto Schmitt, 1982. 1982

Schmitt discusses his early interest in science and his decision to study physiology with Joseph Erlanger. He talks of his teachers and colleagues at Washington University, including Evarts A. Graham, Helen Tredway Graham, Herbert Gasser, George Bishop, Philip A. Shaffer, Carl Cori, and Viktor Hamburger. Schmitt describes Erlanger and Gasser's research on action potentials that led to their receiving the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. There is also discussion of some of Schmitt's research on kidney function with Harvey Lester White, his research on the excitability of heart muscle, and polarization optics.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 44 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassette (ca. 92 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 92 min.) : analog.

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Hudgens, Richard W., 1931-. Oral history interview with Richard W. Hudgens, 1981.

Title: Oral history interview with Richard W. Hudgens, 1981. 1981.

Hudgens relates some of his experiences as student at WUSM in the 1950s and some of his influential professors, such as Edward Dempsey, Carl Moore, George Saslow, and Sam Guze. Hudgens also discusses the development of his interest in psychiatry, his medical residencies in Virginia and North Carolina, his experiences as a staff psychiatrist at the U.S. Air Force Hospital at Lackland AFB in Texas, and his experiences on the faculty and in the administration of the Washington University School of Medicine.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 28 leaves.Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (59 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (59 min.) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63148600 View

Shank, Robert E., 1914-2000,. Oral history interview with Robert E. Shank, 1980.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert E. Shank, 1980. 1980

Shank discusses his student years at the Washington University School of Medicine and his research with Dr. David Barr; his research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research during World War II; and his postwar research at the Public Health Research Institute for the City of New York. The conversation then focuses on the major research focus of Shank's career - nutritional studies. Shank relates his experiences conducting nutritional study research in Newfoundland; the study of nutrition during war and the necessity of providing proper nutrition to troops; public health surveys conducted overseas under the auspices of the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense (ICNND); and his experiences as participant and consultant to the Public Health Service and the Indian Health Service. Shank comments on the challenge of improving nutrition standards in developing countries with steadily increasing populations and the role of the National Research Council and the Food Nutrition Board in the development of standards of recommended dietary allowances of nutrients. He also discusses the growth of the vitamin industry, nutrition in prepared and baby foods, and obesity. The discussion then covers the development of the WUSM Department of Preventive Medicine while Shank was its head - the Irene Walter Johnson Institute of Rehabilitation, the Medical Care Group under its initial director Gerald Perkoff, the division of biostatistics, Health Care Research, applied physiology, epidemiology, and lipid research.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 42 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassette (ca. 130 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 130 min.) : analog.

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Schaefer, Arnold E., 1917-1992. Oral history interview with Arnold E. Schaefer, 1980.

Title: Oral history interview with Arnold E. Schaefer, 1980. 1980

Schaefer discusses his work with the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense (ICNND) in the 1950s and 1960s, and the organization's work in coordinating projects and studies in nutrition and assisting developing countries to address nutrition problems of both civilian populations and military personnel. He talks about his service as a nutrition officer during World War II, the beginnings of United States government interest in the nutrition of foreign nations, the nutrition office in the U.S. Army Office of the Surgeon General, and the formation of the ICNND following the Korean War. Several of Schaefer's colleagues are discussed, including Frank B. Berry, Harold R. Sandstead, and John B. Youmans. Schaefer describes the cooperation between the ICNND and the U.S. Navy medical research units, how ICNND surveys yielded valuable clinical research data, and how the ICNND projects established laboratories and trained personnel in developing countries. Schaefer also discusses other international projects on nutrition, the Food for Peace (PL-480) program, domestic U.S. nutrition surveys, and rivalries between various U.S. government agencies (such as the United States Agency for International Development - USAID) concerned with nutrition.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 67 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (ca. 170 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 170 min.) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65287375 View

Whayne, Tom F. (Tom French), 1905-. Oral history interview with Tom F. Whayne, 1981.

Title: Oral history interview with Tom F. Whayne, 1981. 1981

Whayne shares memories of his experiences at Washington University School of Medicine and teachers such as David P. Barr and Evarts A. Graham. He discusses his impressions as an intern at Missouri Baptist Hospital and as a resident at Missouri Pacific Hospital and his experiences in the Reserve Officers Corps at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Missouri. Whayne relates how he joined the Army Medical Corps during the Depression, and his assignments during the 1930s at Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Carlisle Barracks, and in Panama. The development of Whayne's interest in tropical medicine, preventive medicine, and nutrition during the Second World War is covered. Whayne discusses colleagues such as Crawford Sams, Stanhope Bayne-Jones, and James Stevens Simmons. He also talks of his contribution to the U.S. Army Medical Department's clinical series, Preventive Medicine in World War II. The interview concludes with a discussion about the meaning of the terms preventive medicine, public health, community medicine, and family medicine, and Whayne's experiences in academic medicine after his retirement from the military.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 60 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (ca. 137 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 137 min.) : analog.

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Kaplan, Harriet Smith, 1929-. Oral history interview with Harriet Smith Kaplan, 1981.

Title: Oral history interview with Harriet Smith Kaplan, 1981. 1981.

Kaplan discusses her experiences as a female medical student at Washington University School of Medicine in the 1950s, her internship at San Francisco General Hospital, her work in nuclear medicine and psychiatry, and colleagues and teachers such as Arthur Kornberg. She also compares medical students of the 1950s to those of the 1970s and 1980s.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 40 leaves.Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 77 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 77 min.) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63148604 View

Glaser, Robert J., 1918-. Oral history interview with Robert J. Glaser, 1985.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert J. Glaser, 1985. 1985

Glaser discusses his undergraduate and medical school experiences at Harvard University and his residency and years on the faculty as assistant and associate dean of the Washington University School of Medicine. Glaser explains his research in the uses of penicillin and his work in the rheumatic fever clinic during the late 1940s and 1950s. He also discusses some of his colleagues at Washington University, including Barry Wood, Robert A. Moore, Evarts A. Graham, and Carl Moore. Glaser discusses his experience serving as dean of the medical schools at Colorado and Stanford universities, and his work as a foundation executive of the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Foundation and the Markey Charitable Trust.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 54 leaves.Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes (130 min.) : analog.Sound recording: 2 sound tape reels (130 min.) : analog.

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Dock, William, 1898-. Oral history interview with William S. Dock, 1981.

Title: Oral history interview with William S. Dock, 1981. 1981.

Dock discusses his preclinical education in medical school in the late 1910s at Washington University School of Medicine and early research with cathode ray oscilloscopes. He talks about his father, George Dock, who was professor of medicine (1910-1922) and dean (1910-1912) of the Washington University School of Medicine, and the differences in medical education in his father's and his generations. Dock discusses his impressions of members of the WUSM faculty, including Joseph Erlanger, Robert J. Terry, and Eugene Opie. He also relates some of his experiences as a pathology professor at several medical schools.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 40 leaves.Sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 90 min.) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61332022 View

Harrison, Stanley L., 1907-2004. Oral history interview with Israel D. Newmark and Stanley L. Harrison, 1980.

Title: Oral history interview with Israel D. Newmark and Stanley L. Harrison, 1980. 1980

Newmark and Harrison discuss some of their experiences as students at the Washington University School of Medicine and graduating at the beginning of the Depression. Both discuss aspects of their internships and residencies, including the low pay that they received. Changes in medical training, continuing medical education, pediatrics and the treatment of children, and homeopathic practitioners are discussed. Newmark and Harrison also recall some of their memorable professors, such as W. McKim Marriott.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 41 leaves.Sound recording 1 sound cassette (ca. 65 minutes) : analog.Sound recording 1 sound tape reel (ca. 65 minutes) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65287360 View

Agress, Harry, 1908-1986,. Oral history interview with Harry Agress, 1982.

Title: Oral history interview with Harry Agress, 1982. 1982.

Agress discusses his medical studies at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Mo.) and the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.); his service in World War II with the U.S. Army, 21st General Hospital, in Algeria, Italy, and France; and his civilian practice in St. Louis as a physician and pathologist. He speaks about some of his professors and colleagues, including Evarts A. Graham, Ernest Sachs, and Lee D. Cady, and some of his experiences at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 49 leaves.Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 93 min.) : analog.Sound recording : 1 sound tape reel (ca. 93 min.) : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59009156 View