Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter. Records, 1946-1949.

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Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter. Records, 1946-1949.

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The Harvey Cushing Chapter of the Association of Internes and Medical Students (AIMS) at Yale University compiled the documents in this collection. The chapter organized lecture series with talks by prominent health professionals and explored such issues as animal experimentation in medicine, blacks in medicine, universal health insurance, and opposition to compulsory military service. Documents in this collection include correspondence by Lewis P. Rowland (M.D., 1948), chairman of the chapter, Martha Vaughan (M.D., 1949) and Ruth Leyendecker (M.D., 1951), chapter secretaries, and others; chapter minutes; documents generated at national conventions; and issues of the AIMS journal The Interne, 1948.

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Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

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Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

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