Medical education

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Consists of a single item, Abner Little Merrill’s diploma of graduation from Harvard Medical School.

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Carola Eisenberg (born 1917), psychiatrist and medical educator, served as Dean for Student Affairs at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1972-1978; the first woman to hold that position) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (1978-1990). The Carola Eisenberg papers consist of Eisenberg's lectures pertaining to the role of women in medicine, her letters of recommendation, and assorted personal papers.

Scope and Content: The records of the Office of the Dean are the product of the activities of the Dean of Harvard Medical School, during the years 1949-1965 under the tenure of George Packer Berry. Included are records from the administrative activities of the Office of the Dean, as well as records related to the Dean's involvement in outside professional and governmental groups. Also included are records resulting from the activities of standing and ad hoc committees at Harvard Medical School, as well as...

Overview: The records of the Office of the Dean are the product of the administrative activities of the Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), primarily between 1972 and 1984, as under the tenure of Dean Howard H. Hiatt (1925-). Records include annual reports and questionnaires; policy and procedures development documents; planning and proposal records; program establishment, development, and review records for ad-hoc and standing committees; directives; reports; meeting minutes and...

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Consists of one bound notebook labeled "Anatomy Lectures" containing notes taken by Howard Yaffee while attending lectures in gross anatomy and neuroanatomy at Harvard Medical School between 1947 and 1948; lecture schedules are stapled at the front of the volume.

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,...

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Consists of biographical and research material, professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts, and some reprints. Some material is in Norwegian and untranslated.

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Correspondence, photographs, etc., of Alice Draper Carter, civic worker.

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Papers of physician and occupational medicine specialist, Harriet Hardy.

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Correspondence, photographs, lecture notes, etc., of Lucile Lord-Heinstein, gynecologist and advocate of birth control.

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Correspondence, writings, and photographs, etc., of Sarah Merry Bradley Gamble, birth control activist; also includes family papers.

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Minutes, correspondence, notes, etc., of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, founded by women in 1862 and until the 1950s staffed exclusively by women.

Scope and Content: The records of the Office of the Dean are a product of the administrative activities of the Dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS), primarily in the years 1963-1978, under the tenure of Dean Robert Higgins Ebert (1914-1996). Record types consist of correspondence, meeting minutes and agenda, memoranda, reports, proposals, committee records, and a smaller number of handwritten notes, receipts, article reprints, press releases, photographs, flyers, programs, newspaper clippings and other printed...

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Records in the S. J. Adelstein papers were generated by Adelstein during his medical training and throughout his professional career as a researcher and administrator for Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. The collection includes: Adelstein’s student notes; correspondence and memoranda; research notes; grant applications; notebooks; datebooks; telephone and meeting logs; and meeting minutes.

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Memorabilia and gray literature collected by Stephen I. Bulova consisting of: cartes-de-visite depicting members of the Harvard Medical School faculty circa 1868; tickets for admission to Harvard Medical School lectures, 1867-1868; the 1846 annual circular of the Massachusetts Medical College (now Harvard Medical School); and the Articles of Association and By-laws of the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society, 1857.