| Title: |
Reminiscences of Mary Lasker
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A146
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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: |
Federal aid to medical research, development of regional medical centers, Cancer, Heart, and Stroke Commission, National Institutes of Health appropriations; beautification: plans for National Horticultural Park and Garden, activities in New York, District of Columbia, and elsewhere; visits to Johnson ranch; Medal of Freedom; health and medical research, from 1968: national health insurance, family planning, alcoholism, passage of 1971 cancer bill; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; restoration of Versailles; efforts to increase federal appropriations for medical research; developments in cancer research, heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure; impoundment of federal funds; immunology and cancer; need for clinical trials; service on National Cancer Advisory Board; activities of Advertising Council for medical research; interest in arthritis, Eye Institute, endocrinology, virology; international cooperation in medical research; development of interferon, cloning, recombinant DNA; cooperation of pharmaceutical houses; problems of aging; Lasker Awards and their influence; social activities, awards and recognition; sale of paintings, house.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 986 leaves, Tape: 38 reels, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Permission required to cite or quote. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987. 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 1982 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Lasker, Mary, 1900-1994
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1900
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| Speaker occupation: |
Philanthropist; Promoter of medical research
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| Age at speaking: |
82
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| Document date: |
1982
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| Interviewer: |
Mason, John T., 1909-
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| Organizations discussed: |
National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Alcoholism; Birth control; Federal aid to research; Insurance, Health; Medicine--Research; National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD; North America; Oral history; Performing arts; Philanthropists; Public health; United States; United States--Politics and government--20th century
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Interferons; Landscape protection; Lasker, Mary, 1900-1994; Molecular cloning
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0019309-14752
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