Reminiscences of Thomas Parran : oral history, 1962.

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Reminiscences of Thomas Parran : oral history, 1962.

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Educational background; typhoid investigation; community support for public health personnel; rural sanitation, disease control assignments; attempts to establish local and county health units; director of Division of Venereal Disease: study of control methods, legislative recommendations, establishment of Cooperative Clinical Group; relation of Public Health Service to universities; New York State public health program development; effects of social security legislation; duties as Surgeon General, 1936-1948; origins of grant-in-aid program; Clinical Center; National Advisory Health Council; impetus for national health insurance.

Transcript: 133 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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