Reminiscences of Ernest Beutler: oral history, 1990.

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Reminiscences of Ernest Beutler: oral history, 1990.

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Childhood and education; admission to medical school, age 17, University of Chicago; antisemitism at major institutions; choice of hematology as specialty;influence of Leon Jacobson: value of small department, technicians, good intra-departmental relations; Army Malaria Project, Joliet, III.; work with prison population on primaquine sensitivity; work in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malaria, sickle cell disease; Fort Dietrick, Frederick, Md.; City of Hope Hospital, Los Angeles, chair, Department of Medicine, 1959; insight into x Inactivation hypothesis; red cell isolation, storage, mutation; interdependence of hematology and oncology; development of test for galactosemia; glycolipid storage diseases, Gaucher's disease, Fabry disease; Tay Sach's disease, Sandhoff's disease, enzyme defeciencies; president, American Society of Hematologists, late 70's; bone marrow transplantation program, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, 1978; progress of blood genetics; importance of technologicaladvances of the 80s; bone marrow transplant effects on leukemia, sickle cell; ethics of science; changes in National Institute of Health policy, medical policy, disease funding; computers.

Transcript: 110 leaves.Tape: 3 cassettes.

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

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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....

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Physician, hematologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Ernest Beutler: oral history, 1990. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574647 Dr. Ernest Beutler (1928-2008) was a leading hematologist whose studies opened an important new window onto the treatment of leukemia. From the guide to the Ernest Beutler papers, 1970s-1990s, 1970-1999, (American Philosophical Society) ...