Averill A. Liebow collection, 1945-1966.

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Averill A. Liebow collection, 1945-1966.

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This collection relates to the pathological studies conducted by Liebow and his colleagues while at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It includes the materials from his 1965 exhibit at Yale University and 1966 exhibit in Hiroshima, Japan, including portions of his original diary, correspondence and reproductions of original photographs, charts and graphs. Much of this material was published in "Encounter with Disaster: A Medical Diary of Hiroshima 1945," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 38(2) (October 1965). There are also unpublished items including notes, drawings, and some photographs. The collection contains a historical and medical record of the devastation and human suffering that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the days following the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 5, 1945.

1.5 linear feet (3 boxes)

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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Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission

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Liebow, Averill A., 1911-1978

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A native of Austria, Averill Liebow came to the United States as a young boy. He graduated magnum cum laude from City College of New York, and received his medical degree from Yale University in 1935. Appointed an assistant in pathology at Yale in 1935, he rose through the ranks to full professor in 1951. In 1968 he accepted the chairmanship of the department of pathology at the University of California, San Diego, which he held until his retirement in 1975. While on active duty during World War...