Oral history interview with Robert Briggs Watson, 1968
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Robert Briggs Watson, 1968
Abstract
Family background; education; medical officer, Norris Dam Project, Tennessee Valley Authority; malaria control in Tennessee Valley; malaria control in World War II; use of anti-malarial drugs in Pacific Theater; field staff of Rockefeller Foundation, 1946; travels in Latin America; work with Chinese government on malaria control from 1946; Taiwan, 1948; work in Japan, Korea, Philippines, Macao; med ical education in India and public health problems; work in Brazil and South America; fellowships and policy; training teachers for medical schools; role of foundations
Physicians; Malaria--Immunological aspects; Medical education--Developing countries; Public health--Developing countries; United States Foreign relations 1945-1989; Watson, Robert Briggs, 1903-1978; Tennessee Valley Authority; Rockefeller Foundation
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1968
Physical Description
376 pages
Note (Biographical)
Physician
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010