Oral history interview with Eugene Glick, 2001
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- Name
- Glick, Eugene (Interviewee)
- Fly on the Wall Productions (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Eugene Glick, 2001
- Abstract
- Early life: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; family background: parents' immigration from Ukraine, parents' careers as pharmacists; education: Ursinus College from 1947-1951, Jefferson medical College from 1952-1956, Internship at Harbor General Hospital in 1957, Residency at Kaiser Hospital in Los Angeles from 195701960, Senior Lecturer in Africa in 1968, Masters in Public Health from University of Cal ifornia at Berkeley in 1972; personal experience with botched abortion at age 18, research in medical school, treatment during internship, residency, and practice at Kaiser from 1960-1968 and 1969-1976; performing illegal home abortions, bypassing legalities in interest of patients, performing legal abortions in private practice until retirement in 1992; pre- and post-Roe v. Wade; descriptions of wife's abortion, grandmother's death from abortion, first illegal abortion performed, patients suffering from botched abortions
- Collection Name
- Physicians for reproductive health and choice oral history project
- Subjects
- Obstetricians; Gynecologists; Abortion--United States; Abortion--Law and legislation--United States; Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects; Physicians--Attitudes.--United States; Reproductive rights--United States; Glick, Eugene
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2001
- Note (Biographical)
- Obstetrician/Gynecologist
- Note
- Interviewed by Fly on the Wall Productions, in April, 2001
- Note (Provenance)
- Eugene Glick, Gift 2001
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13792737
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-7sc1-tk48
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.