Family background, University of Wisconsin, Radcliffe; interest in fine arts; European travel, study at Oxford; art dealer; Hollywood dress pattern business; interest in and promotion of Planned Parenthood Federation, other voluntary agencies in the field of health; fund-raising: American Cancer Society, American Heart Association; attempts to secure adequate appropriations to implement existing le gislation for medical research; United States Public Health Service: National Science Foundation; formation and development of national institutes for cancer, heart, arthritis, mental health, neurological diseases, blindness; aid to medical education; interest in psychoanalysis; medical research in New York; large scale clinical trials through Veterans Administration; activities of Lasker Foundation to promote health through medical research; health insurance; Health Insurnace Plan in New York, Presidential Health Commission; support for performing arts; art collection. Impressions of many statesmen, legislators, and medical and scientific pioneers
Philanthropists; Art--Collectors and collecting; Medicine--Research; Federal aid to research; United States Politics and government 20th century; Lasker, Mary; National Institute of Health (U.S.); United States. Public Health Service
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1965
Physical Description
1,157 pages
Note (Biographical)
Promoter of medical research, philanthropist; interviewee married Albert D. Lasker
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. between October 16, 1962 and July 6, 1965
This interview is featured in Columbia University Libraries’ Notable New Yorkers website. Notable New Yorkers was a project of Columbia University Libraries Digital Program. The original website was developed by Columbia University Digital Knowledge V entures and published in 2006