Childhood in Oklahoma; medical school at University of Oklahoma during the Depression; experiences with Civilian Conservation Corps as a camp doctor; position with the State Health department; masters degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins; army experience before and during World War II; private practice in 1946; creation of Ministry of Public Health in Korea, 1944; Foreign Service work in Iran , 1956-1958; small pox vaccination, recollections of the Shah, comparison with Haiti, American polciy in Iran, Sheraz hospital; experiences in Haiti, 1959, working with traditional medicine men, missionaries, liberation theology; criticisms of Project Hope; various family and foreign experiences; headed World Health
Organization on diabetes and arthritis; work since retirement in 1970
Physicians; Missionaries--Haiti; Liberation theology; Korea Economic conditions; Iran History Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979; Haiti Description and travel; McDonald, Glen W; World Health Organization; United States. Department of State
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1984
Note (Biographical)
Physician
Note
Interviewed by James D. Williams on November 27, 1984