Name
Aub, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), 1890-1973 (Interviewee)
Benison, Saul (Interviewer)
Title
Reminiscences of Joseph Charles Aub, 1957
Abstract
Education, Harvard College and Medical School; internship, Massachusetts General Hospital; metabolic research, Russell Sage laboratories; World War I service; lead poisoning; calcium metabolism; cancer research, Huntington Memorial Hospital, 1929-1943; impact of World War II on research; work at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1943-1957; early use of radioisotopes; 1911 trip to Wilfred Grenfell Mis sion, Labrador; magnesium metabolism; radium poisoning; hormones and cell growth; liver regeneration; work in traumatic shock, World War II; growth studies of deer; American Cancer Society; Physiological Congress, 1929; Unitarian Service Committee mission, Czechoslovakia, 1946; World Health Organization mission, India, 1953. Impressions of David Edsall, Walter Cannon, George Wislocki, Eugene DuBois, Ira Nathanson, Robley Evans
Collection Name
Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects
Physicians; Hospitals; Medicine--Research--United States; World health; World War, 1939-1945--Medical care; Czechoslovakia History Coup d'état, 1948; Aub, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), 1890-1973; Massachusetts General Hospital; American Cancer Society
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1957
Physical Description
566 pages
Note (Biographical)
Physician
Note
Interviewed by Saul Benison
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record
15166191
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-nk6p-8530
Related URLs
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