Early life in Ohio; choice of medicine as a career; education; medical school at University of Rochester; curriculum; state of cell and hematology research in 1930s; comparison of clinical and research medicine; professional influences; progesterone research; insulin studies; human experimentation; antibodies and immune system research; growth of hematology as discipline and science; anemia researc h; radiation biology; teaching experience; Naval service; professional collaborations; blood bank developement; support of hematology by National Institutes of Health; leukemia research; hematology-oncology split; red cell research; involvement with American Society of Hematology; origins of journal Blood
Physicians; Medical research personnel; Hematology; Progesterone; Insulin; Immune system--Research; Anemia; Leukemia; Young, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Eugene), 1913-; American Society of Hematology
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1987
Note (Biographical)
Hematologist
Note
Interviewed by Eric A. Hoffman on October 6, 9 and 10, 1987