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SERIES Identifier: H MS c168

II. Harvard Medical School Administrative, Teaching, and Research Activities Records, 1955-1990, 1955-1990

Scope and Contents

Series II contains correspondence, lecture notes, committee reports, and photographs resulting from EHK's career as an infectious disease researcher, teacher, and clinician associated with HMS and its affiliated institutions. Correspondence with HMS deans and BCH physicians are from his teaching and administrative activities at HMS. Lecture notes and class plans pertaining to epidemiology, infectious disease, pathophysiology course curriculum reports, and committee correspondence, including the Committee of Professors, Curriculum Committee, Coordinating Committee, and several lectureship committees, document EHK's activities in the HMS community. Also included are photographs, correspondence, and Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and Channing Laboratory financial records from EHK's work with Maxwell Finland. This series also includes correspondence regarding EHK’s efforts to secure funding for the establishment of the Maxwell Finland lecture, Fae Golden Kass lecture, the Harriet Ryan Albee Professorship of Medicine, and the Amalie Moses Kass Professorship in the History of Medicine at HMS.

Dates

  • Creation: 1955-1990

Conditions Governing Access

Series II contains Harvard University records that are restricted for 50 years, and personal and patient records that are restricted for 80 years. The end of the restriction period is noted below with each folder.

Extent

37 cubic feet (36 record cartons and 3 document boxes)

Arrangement

Interfiled alphabetically by subject or correspondent. Photographs listed in Series II are housed in box 36.

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) Repository

The Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is one of the world's leading resources for the study of the history of health and medicine. Our mission is to enable the history of medicine and public health to inform healthcare, the health sciences, and the societies in which they are embedded.

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