Physicians -- Massachusetts.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Cambridge Medical Improvement Society Centennial Dinner Meeting program, 9 May 1968
Collection — Box Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c555Content Description:
Two copies of the program from the Centennial Dinner Meeting of the Cambridge Medical Improvement Society, held in Boston, Massachusetts on May 9, 1968. One copy is autographed by guest speakers Paul Dudley White and Christiaan N. Barnard.
L. Vernon Briggs papers
Collection Identifier: H MS c162Overview:
The collection reflects the professional work and the personal interests of psychiatrist and reformer Lloyd Vernon Briggs. As well as being a practicing psychiatrist, Briggs was an advocate for the reform of the asylum system in Massachusetts. He worked on reforms of the procedures for the committal of patients and the confinement of those suspected of having mental illness, and he advocated requiring formal training for both attending physicians and attendants in psychiatric institutions....