| 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: |
Family background, University of Wisconsin, Radcliffe; interest in fine arts; European travel, study at Oxford; art dealer; Hollywood dress pattern business; interest in and promotion of Planned Parenthood Federation, other voluntary agencies in the field of health; fund-raising: American Cancer Society, American Heart Association; attempts to secure adequate appropriations to implement existing legislation for medical research; United States Public Health Service: National Science Foundation; formation and development of national institutes for cancer, heart, arthritis, mental health, neurological diseases, blindness; aid to medical education; interest in psychoanalysis; medical research in New York; large scale clinical trials through Veterans Administration; activities of Lasker Foundation to promote health through medical research; health insurance; Health Insurance Plan in New York, Presidential Health Commission; support for performing arts; art collection. Impressions of many statesmen, legislators, and medical and scientific pioneers.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 1,157 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Permission required to cite or quote. 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 1965 (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: |
65
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| Document date: |
1965
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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: |
Art--Collectors and collecting; Federal aid to research; Medicine--Research; National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD; North America; Oral history; Philanthropists; Public health--United States; United States; United States--Politics and government--20th century
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Lasker, Mary, 1900-1994
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0019310-14753
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