Oral history interview with Richard Hausknecht, 2001
Oral history interview with Richard Hausknecht, 2001
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- Name
- Hausknecht, Richard (Interviewee)
- Fly on the Wall Productions (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Richard Hausknecht, 2001
- Abstract
- Childhood: early experience with family's political activism; education: B.A. Carleton College, M.D., Tufts University, surgical internship at New England medical Center, four-year residency at Yale's Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, military duty in France, two year fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian in Gynelcologic Endrocrinology; response to experience with women dead from illegal abortio ns; response to racism amongst doctors; illegal education of abortion procedures; significant death of one patient, leading to start of political activism; first New York abortion clinic, July 1970; reminiscences of early research regarding RU-586, Mifepristone, Methotrexate; conflicts with hospital administration; Distinguished Graduate Award for contributions to women's health care, Carleton College, 1996; current abortion legislation pending; reminiscences of performing two illegal abortions
- Collection Name
- Physicians for reproductive health and choice oral history project
- Subjects
- Gynecologists; Abortion--United States; Abortion--Law and legislation--United States; Abortion services--United States; Pro-choice movement--United States; Physicians--Attitudes.--United States; Reproductive rights--United States; Mifepristone--Research; Methotrexate--Research; Hausknecht, Richard
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2001
- Note (Biographical)
- Gynecologist
- Note
- Interviewed by Fly on the Wall Productions, April 2001
- Note (Provenance)
- Richard Hausknecht, Gift 2001
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13794994
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-kdpq-ej19
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.