Medical education

Overview: Records in the Jean Mayer Papers were created by Mayer during the course of his career as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and as a researcher and author from 1953 to 1975. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, but it also includes records related to Mayer’s activities as a research scientist, a consultant on issues of nutrition and diet, and an author. Mayer’s main areas of professional work and research interests were in human nutrition, diet,...