Faye G. Abdellah papers, 1952-1989 (bulk 1960-1989).

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Faye G. Abdellah papers, 1952-1989 (bulk 1960-1989).

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Contains publications, speeches, scrapbooks, and photographs; non-official files documenting Abdellah's research interests in patient care, nursing practice, nursing research, and the care of the elderly. Of special note is the extensive collection of photographs which serve as a visual record of federal nursing service and the Public Health Service in the 1970s and 1980s. Abdellah's official files as an officer of the Public Health Service remain with the service.

5.4 linear ft. (13 boxes)

National Library of Medicine

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National Library of Medicine

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Abdellah, Faye G.

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Abdellah was a nurse, educator, deputy surgeon general of the Public Health Service, and member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. From the guide to the Faye G. Abdellah papers, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine) Rear Admiral Faye Glenn Abdellah, Ed.D., LL.D., Sc.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. has been a leader in both the development of nursing research and nursing as a profession within the Public Health Service (PHS). Trained initia...

United States. Public Health Service

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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...