Reminiscences of Warren Palmer Dearing : oral history, 1964.

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Reminiscences of Warren Palmer Dearing : oral history, 1964.

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Family background, education; Public Health Service, 1934; West Coast polio outbreak; work at Boston Marine Hospital; tubercolosis and polio epidemiology and control study with Lumsden in 1930s; Civil Defense Planning work, World War II; personnel problem analysis for Public Health Service; establishment of research committees and administration for public health programs; relationship of financial support and medical education and research; influence of American Medical Association on medical program policy planning.

Transcript: 96 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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