HMS. Department ofSocial Medicine Establishment and Review Records. 1979-1992.

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HMS. Department ofSocial Medicine Establishment and Review Records. 1979-1992.

This series documents the establishment, planning, and review of the Department of Social Medicine. The series provides a historical record of the department, provides support and justifications for departmental programs, and provides an overall direction for the department. Records include correspondence, departmental brochure, course requirements, facilities negotiation, and overatures.

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Eisenberg, Leon, 1922-2009

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Leon Eisenberg, 1922-, AB, 1944, MD, 1946, University of Pennsylvania, came to Boston in 1967 as head of the psychiatric service at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In 1973, Eisenberg was appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and was named Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Psychiatry in 1974. Eisenberg served as Chairman of the Department of Social Medicine and Health Poli...

Harvard Medical School. Department of Social Medicine

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The Department of Social Medicine is an interdisciplinary social science department of Harvard Medical School. Its faculty of anthropologists, sociologists, historians, ethicists, social policy specialists, and clinicians teach and conduct reserch about the social, cutural, and moral aspects of illness and health care, with a special emphasis on reducing health disparities and improving the quality of medical care. From the description of Freeman Fellowship Records, 1990-2004. (Harva...

Eisenberg, Carola

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Carola Eisenberg, 1917-, Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and practicing psychiatrist, served as Dean of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School for 12 years, beginning in 1978. Eisenberg received her MD in 1944 from the University of Buenos Aires, and completed a fellowship in child psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to her tenure at Harvard, Eisenberg served as Dean of Student Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.); she was the first wom...