Iser Steiman papers, 1943-1975 (inclusive), 1943-1960 (bulk).

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Iser Steiman papers, 1943-1975 (inclusive), 1943-1960 (bulk).

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The papers consist primarily of letters between Iser Steiman and John F. Fulton from 1943 to Fulton's death in 1960. Both sides of the correspondence are available as Steiman kept copies of his own letters. Other correspondents include Madeline Stanton, Harriet Thomson, and Wiliam C. Gibson. Topics include avaiation medicine; Steiman's translations of Soviet Russian works on military medicine; and history of medicine. Also part of the collection is a copy of a typewritten autobiography by Steinman which traces his career up to his arrival at Yale in 1944.

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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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Gibson, William Carleton

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Born in Ottawa, William Gibson graduated in the University of British Columbia's first Commerce class (1933). He earned degrees from McGill (M.Sc. 1936 and M.D.C.M. 1941) and Oxford University (Ph.D. 1938). He specialized in Neurology and Psychiatry which he taught at the University of Sidney and at the University of California prior to coming to UBC in 1950. Gibson was a researcher and clinical Associate Professor when the medical school opened and soon after became Director of the Kinsmen Labo...

Stanton, Madeline E. (Madeline Earle)

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Madeline Earle Stanton was born on June 9, 1898, in Canton, Massachusetts. After receiving her B.A. degree from Smith College in 1919, she was secretary to Agide Jacchia, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Beginning in 1920, Stanton worked with Dr. Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and later at the Yale School of Medicine. After Cushing's death in 1939, Stanton collaborated with Yale Professor John Fulton on bibliographic works on Michael Servetus and Robert Boyle....

Steiman, Iser, 1898-1981.

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Iser Steiman emigrated from Latvia to Canada at the age of 14 and received his M.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1924. He became a pioneer rural family doctor in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, where he built his own hospital, the King Edward Hospital. In World War II, he joined the Royal Canadian Airforce. Because of his growing interest in aviation medicine and his discovery of a recent textbook in Russian, his superiors requested him to translate it. In the process of preparing the translation, ...

Thomson, Elizabeth Harriet, 1907-...

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Elizabeth Harriet Thomson was born on September 6, 1907, near Holland Patent, New York. After receiving her B.S. in 1911 from Simmons College, she worked as an editorial assistant at Mount Holyoke College and later at the National League of Nursing and in the Army Air Force. From 1945 until her retirement in 1972 she served as assistant in research at the Yale Medical Historical Library and then as research assistant and later research associate in the Yale University Department of the History o...

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...

King Edward Hospital

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