| Title: |
Reminiscences of Edward Delos Churchill
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A42
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Family history and boyhood; education, Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School; clinical training, Faulkner and Massachusetts General Hospital, 1919-1924; techniques of surgery, anesthesiology, and blood transfusion, 1920s; anecdotes of Boston medical profession, 1920-1940; observations in European clinics and laboratories, 1926-1927; Boston City Hospital, 1929-1952; relationship of Harvard teaching hospitals and University; cancer research; Huntington and Vincent Hospitals; medical planning, World War II; surgical consultant, North African and Mediterranean Theaters, 1943-1946; battle wound management; shock research; debate on plasma use; postwar Veterans Administration; chairman, advisory committee to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, 1946; impressions of colleagues in medicine, education and government, especially Cecil Drinker, David Edsall, Harvey Cushing, Elliott Cutler, James B. Conant, Henry Beecher, Edwin Cohn, Sidney Burwell, Evarts Graham, Howard Snyder, Michael De Bakey, and Henry L. Stimson.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 691 leaves, Tape: 1 reel, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1957 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Churchill, Edward Delos, 1895-1972
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1895
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| Speaker occupation: |
Surgeon
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| Age at speaking: |
62
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| Document date: |
1957
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| Interviewer: |
Benison, Saul
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Massachusetts; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Massachusetts; Medical care; North America; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Boston City Hospital; Churchill, Edward Delos, 1895-1972; Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital; Medical colleges--Massachusetts; Surgeons; United States--Veterans Administration; World War, 1939-1945--Medical and sanitary affairs
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018184-13627
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