Childhood and education; admission to medical school, age 17, University of Chicago; antisemitism at major institutions; choice of hematology as specialty; influence of Leon Jacobson: value of small department, technicians, good intra-departmental relations; Army Malaria Project, Joliet, III.; work with prison population on primaquine sensitivity; work in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malaria, sickle cell disease; Fort Dietrick, Frederick, Md.; City of Hope Hospital, Los Angeles, chair, Department of Medicine, 1959; insight into x Inactivation hypothesis; red cell isolation, storage, mutation; interdependence of hematology and oncology; development of test for galactosemia; glycolipid storage diseases, Gaucher's disease, Fabry disease; Tay Sach's disease, Sandhoff's disease, enzyme defeciencies; president, American Society of Hematologists, late 70's; bone marrow transplantation program, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, 1978; progress of blood genetics; importance of technologicaladvances of the 80s; bone marrow transplant effects on leukemia, sickle cell; ethics of science; changes in National Institute of Health policy, medical policy, disease funding; computers
Medical research personnel; Physicians; Hematology; Antisemitism; Malaria; Sickle cell anemia; Oncology; Bone marrow--Transplantation; Galactosemias; Glycolipids; Tay-Sachs disease; Enzymes; Genetics--Research; Medical ethics; Federal aid to research; Beutler, Ernest, 1928-2008; National Institute of Health (U.S.)
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1990
Note (Biographical)
Physician, hematologist
Note
Interviewed by Keith Wailoo on November 6 and 7, 1990