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A. Clifford Barger papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c478
Overview: The A. Clifford Barger papers reflect the professional and personal work of Clifford Barger (1917-1996), a research physiologist who spent his career at Harvard Medical School. Barger’s research interests focused on the cardiovascular and renal systems; he was involved in research which did much to elucidate the mechanisms by which sufferers from certain cardiac disorders retain fluids. The collection includes correspondence, publications files, research records, and administrative...

Arthur B. Pardee papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c372
Overview:

The Arthur B. Pardee papers, 1949-2001, are the product of Pardee’s professional, research, teaching, and publishing activities throughout the course of his career. The papers are arranged in three series: I. Research Notes, 1949-1992; II. Slides, 1975-2001, undated; and III. Electronic Records, 1991-2001, undated.

Bernard Lown papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c300
Overview: The Bernard Lown papers, 1933-2003 (inclusive), are the product of Lown’s executive activities as co-founder and Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, as co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, his research and teaching activities at the Harvard School of Public Health, his role in establishing and administering health care-related organizations including SATELLIFE and the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care, as well as his activities as...

C. Miller Fisher papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c230
Overview:

Records in this collection were created by Charles Miller Fisher during his practice as a neurologist in Montreal, Canada, and Boston, Massachusetts. The collection includes patient notes and records, research notes, manuscript drafts, X-rays, slides, photographs, and memorabilia. Topics in the collection include dementia, transient ischemic attack, normal pressure hydrocephalus, transient monocular blindness, stroke, hemiplegia, headache, vasospasm, and arterial dissection.

Dwight E. Harken papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: B MS c118
Overview:

The Dwight E. Harken papers, 1911-1993 (inclusive), 1940-1975 (bulk), are the product of Harken’s activities as a surgeon, researcher, administrator, lecturer, consultant, and contributing member of national organizations, as conducted throughout his professional appointments, including Clinical Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston.

E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c320
Overview: E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte (1937-) is an anatomic pathologist, neuropathologist, Harvard Medical School professor (1991-), and researcher for organizations such as the Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Her papers (1956-2006) are the product of her teaching activities and research and clinical interests in brain tumors, pituitary tumors, neurodegenerative disorders, and immunohistochemistry, and include lectures and writings, professional correspondence...

Edward Peirson Richardson, Jr. papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c242
Overview:

The Edward Peirson Richardson, Jr. papers, 1898-1998, document Richardson's career as a neurologist and neuropathologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and as Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School.

Fredrick J. Stare papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c499
Overview: The Fredrick J. Stare papers, 1912-2002 (inclusive), 1950-1999 (bulk), are the product of Fredrick J. Stare’s professional, research, publishing, travel, and personal activities throughout the course of his career. The papers are arranged in nine series: I. Subject Files, 1912-2002; II. Correspondence Files, 1941-1999; III. Writings and Publications, 1934-1999; IV. Harvard University Administrative Records, 1942-2000; V. Travel Files, 1944-1994; VI. Personal Files, 1945-1999; VII. Audio,...

Harry C. Solomon papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c368
Overview:

Consists of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted between 1967 and 1968 with and about Harry C. Solomon (1889-1982) regarding his career as a psychiatrist and mental health reformer. The collection also includes professional records created and collected by Solomon during his early medical career, including autopsy reports from his service with the United States military in France during World War I, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and research note cards.

Harvard Medical School. Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene sanitary surveys

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Series Identifier: M-SD04 Series 00064.
Overview:

This series consists of sanitary surveys of various towns, cities, and counties throughout the United States from 1920-1948. Surveys were conducted by students to fulfill requirements of the Harvard Medical School class in Preventative Medicine and Hygiene.

Harvard School of Public Health. Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: RG P-DT08.02, Series 00573-00577
Overview: The Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records, 1918-2015 (inclusive), 1930-1989 (bulk), are the product of research by the Department of Maternal and Child Health on the health, physical development, and social functioning of a set of subjects from birth through adulthood. The papers are arranged in five series: I. Data and Administrative Records (1923-2015, undated); II. Manuscript Drafts and Publications (1918-2000, undated); III....

Hermann Lisco papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c536
Overview:

The Hermann Lisco Papers, 1899–2000 (inclusive), 1940-1974 (bulk), are the product of Lisco’s professional, research, teaching, publishing, and personal activities and interests throughout the course of his career. The papers are arranged in four series: I. Correspondence, 1921-1999, II. Research records, 1899-1992, III. Professional records, 1936-1994, IV. Personal papers, 1909-2000.

John W. Vinson papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c479
Overview:

The John William Vinson papers, 1923-1979 (inclusive), 1961-1979 (bulk), are the product of Vinson’s research and professional activities during his career at Harvard School of Public Health (now Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) as Associate Professor of Microbiology.

Julius M. Rogoff papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c42
Overview: Contains correspondence pertaining mostly to the animal experimentation controversy; to Rogoff's publications, especially rejections of his manuscripts by various journals; and to his position at Western Reserve, and work on treatment for Addison's disease at Cushing Laboratory. Manuscript materials include typescripts by Rogoff concerning the publication policy of some medical science journals, and other writings on adrenal glands, hypertension, and diabetes. Also contains slides,...

Katherine Rodgers Denckla collection of records about George C. Cotzias

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c184
Overview:

The Katherine Rodgers Denckla collection of records about George C. Cotzias, 1960-1979 (inclusive), consists of writings and publications collected by Denckla related to Cotzias' research on Parkinson’s disease and its treatment using L-dopa, a drug Cotzias developed. Denckla was a princial funder of Cotzia's research.

Mary Ellen Avery papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c201
Overview: The Mary Ellen Avery papers, 1929-2002, consist of personal and professional correspondence, teaching materials, professional activities records, grant records, articles and drafts, lectures and speeches, diaries, photographs, and other records from Avery's life and career as a pediatrician in: Boston, Massachusetts; Montreal, Quebec; and Baltimore, Maryland and as a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, where she was the first woman to chair a major department. She was...

Maxwell Finland papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c153
Overview:

The Maxwell Finland papers, 1916-2003, document Finland's career as a specialist in infectious diseases at Boston City Hospital and as George Richards Minot Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Samuel A. Levine papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c448
Overview:

The Samuel A. Levine papers, 1908-1994 and 2016-2017 (inclusive) consist primarily of papers, photographs, and film created during and after the life of cardiologist Samuel A. Levine and collected by Levine and family members, including his wife Rosalind W. Levine, son Herbert J. Levine, daughter-in-law Sandra Levine, and grandson Jonathan H. Scheff.

Vernacular Archive of Normal Volunteers (VANV)

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c464
Content Description: The Vernacular Archive of Normal Volunteers (VANV), 1940-2018 (inclusive) is a collection of oral histories, associated archival documents, and project records created and collected by Laura Jeanine Morris Stark (born 1975) to explore the lives of the first “normal control” research subjects at the Clinical Center of the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland who were recruited through NIH’s Normal Volunteer Patient Program. The Normal Volunteer Patient...

Stephen W. Lagakos papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c338
Overview:

The Stephen W. Lagakos papers, 1971-2009 (inclusive), 1995-2009 (bulk), are the product of Lagakos’s activities as an HIV/AIDS researcher, biostatistician, and professor of biostatistics.

William A. Haseltine papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c359
Overview:

The William A. Haseltine papers (1962-2008) are the product of Haseltine’s activities as a researcher, business executive, educator, lecturer, consultant, and contributing member of national and international organizations. Haseltine's main areas of research include cancer, HIV and AIDS, and genomics.

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