Reminiscences of Leonard Andrew Scheele : oral history, 1963.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Reminiscences of Leonard Andrew Scheele : oral history, 1963.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574103

Public Health Service (PHS) assignments; establishment of research clinics; grant procedures for PHS hospitals; lung cancer epidemiology,; establishment of chronic as well as communicable disease programs; planning clinical center; National Institute of Health managerial policies; establishment of other institutes; public relations programs; effects of World War II on PHS expansion; coordination of research and control programs; expansion to extramural research grants; appointment as Surgeon General of the United States, 1948; future of PHS.

Transcript: 70 leaves.

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

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6771073

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

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

National Institute of Health (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j87b9 (corporateBody)

The U.S. Hygienic Laboratory was established in 1887 under the U.S. Marine Hospital Service. It became a part of the U.S. Public Health Service in 1912. In 1930 the facility was renamed the National Institute of Health. From the guide to the Station journal of the Hygienic Laboratory/National Institute of Health, 1922-1937, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine) The U.S. Hygienic Laboratory was established in 1887 under the U.S. Marine Hospital Service....

Phillips, Harlan B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6639sck (person)

United States. Public Health Service

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x64pk (corporateBody)

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...

Scheele, Leonard Andrew, 1907-1993

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rf6rrc (person)

Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Leonard Andrew Scheele : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419135 From the description of Reminiscences of Leonard Andrew Scheele : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574103 ...