Department of the History of Science and Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, records, 1949-1981 (inclusive).

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Department of the History of Science and Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, records, 1949-1981 (inclusive).

The records consist of administrative files, reports, correspondence, and personnel and student records documenting the Department of the History of Science and Medicine (known as the Department of the History of Medicine prior to 1959) at the Yale Medical School. Included are the records of the department chairs John Farquhar Fulton, Frederick Lawrence Holmes, Derek John de Solla Price, and Lloyd Grenfell Stevenson, and the correspondence of professors George Rosen and Henry Ernest Sigerist.

20.25 linear feet (50 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8021106

Yale University Library

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Rosen, George, 1910-1977

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George Rosen was born in New York City in 1910. After attending City College he went to Humboldt University in Berlin for his M.D. (1935). In 1953 he left medical practice to become a professor of health education at Columbia University's School of Health and Administrative Medicine. Throughout his working career he studied and authored numerous articles and books, including A History of Public Health (1958). Rosen also served as editor of the American Journal of Public Health. From ...

Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957

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Henry E. Sigerist was born in Paris, France in 1891. He studied in Europe, served in the Swiss Army Corps, and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in 1917. He was lecturer and professor of history of medicine at Zurich (1921-1924) and the University of Leipzig (1925-1932). He then served as professor and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (1932-1947), before becoming a research associate at Yale University (1947-1957). Sigerist published ...

Holmes, Frederic Lawrence.

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Frederic Lawrence Holmes was born in1932 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in the history of science. From 1977 until his death on March 27, 2003, he was a full professor in the Section of the History of Medicine in the Yale School of Medicine. He served as master of Jonathan Edwards College from 1983 to 1987. His research and publications focus on topics in history of the life sciences. From the guide to the Frederic Lawrence Holmes papers, 1952-2002, (Ma...

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James D. Kenney was attending physician, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1968-2007; president, medical staff, 1976-1977; attending physician, Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven; associate dean for postgraduate and continuing medical education, Yale University School of Medicine, 1978-2001; clinical professor of medicine; and editor of The Medical Letter. From the description of School of Medicine, Yale University, records of James D. Kenney as associate dean for postgraduate and continuing ...

Fulton, John F. (John Farquhar), 1899-1960

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John Farquhar Fulton was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 1, 1899. He received B.S. and M.D. degrees from Harvard, and a M.A. and D. Phil. from Oxford. He was appointed Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale in 1929 and in 1951 became the first Sterling professor of the history of medicine. During World War II, Fulton served on the National Research Council. He was an authority on comparative physiology of the primate brain, neurophysiology, aviation medicine, and medical history. He co...

Price, Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla), 1922-1983

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Stevenson, Lloyd Grenfell

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