National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Office of the Director. Congressional inquiries correspondence, 1949-1971.

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National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Office of the Director. Congressional inquiries correspondence, 1949-1971.

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The collection consists of Congressional correspondence regarding various aspects of NIH's research programs, appropriations and policy. Topics covered range from mundane constituent letters asking for money to support hospitalization or treatment, to top-level policy questions from Senate and House members. These letters demonstrate the direct access to upper-level NIH administrators once afforded to both Senators, Congressmen and their constituents, and the general public and how discussions of national research policy were openly discussed. The collection is organized by topic or institute and chronologically therein. Little original organization survived before processing but the original categories given by NIH secretaries are written in pen on the upper portion of the letter. In cases where the original topics were too generalized, more definitive terms were supplied. Existing terms found with other similar letters were applied groupings with too generic terms, e.g. "Information" being refined to "Grants." In other cases where a generic term was applied to a group of letters devoted to a more specific topic, the topical term was used, e.g. "Policy" is refined to "Animal Experimentation." The majority of information requested relates to grants, research information, and diseases, however all three terms were often used interchangeably to group letters. For instance, folders titled Research or Information are usually related to specific disease research programs and progress-to-date, but also can include questions about individual grant application status, how much funding is devoted to research on a specific treatment or disease, or public health and population statistics such as race, numbers of people within the U.S. afflicted, or the costs associated with disease treatment (health services research). Letters to NIMH, or NIMH-related subjects, are the bulk of the collection. Topics include local and national alcohol and drug addiction programs and children mental health services. Other topics of national interest found throughout the collection include national blood blanking policy, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, kidney disease, anti-vivisection, and program funding.

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