George Rosen Public Health Oral History Collection 1960-1965

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George Rosen Public Health Oral History Collection 1960-1965

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Collection of interviews conducted for source material for Rosen's projected history of United States public health in the postwar years; also included is some draft background materials.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-

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Rosen, George, 1910-1977

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George Rosen was born in New York City in 1910. After attending City College he went to Humboldt University in Berlin for his M.D. (1935). In 1953 he left medical practice to become a professor of health education at Columbia University's School of Health and Administrative Medicine. Throughout his working career he studied and authored numerous articles and books, including A History of Public Health (1958). Rosen also served as editor of the American Journal of Public Health. From ...