Reminiscences of Edward Delos Churchill, 1957
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- Name
- Churchill, Edward D. (Edward Delos), 1895-1972 (Interviewee)
- Benison, Saul (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Edward Delos Churchill, 1957
- Abstract
- Family history and boyhood; education, Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School; clinical training, Faulkner and Massachusetts General Hospital, 1919-1924; techniques of surgery, anesthesiology, and blood transfusion, 1920s; anecdotes of Boston medical profession, 1920-1940; observations in European clinics and laboratories, 1926-1927; Boston City Hospital, 1929-1952; relationship of Harv ard teaching hospitals and University; cancer research; Huntington and Vincent Hospitals; medical planning, World War II; surgical consultant, North African and Mediterranean Theaters, 1943-1946; battle wound management; shock research; debate on plasma use; postwar Veterans Administration; chairman, advisory committee to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, 1946; impressions of colleagues in medicine, education and government, especially Cecil Drinker, David Edsall, Harvey Cushing, Elliott Cutler, James B. Conant, Henry Beecher, Edwin Cohn, Sidney Burwell, Evarts Graham, Howard Snyder, Michael De Bakey, and Henry L. Stimson. Audio only corresponds to two segments of the full interview, and was heavily edited during the production of the (undigitized) full-interview transcript
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Surgeons; Medical colleges--Massachusetts; World War, 1939-1945--Medical care; Medical care; Churchill, Edward D. (Edward Delos), 1895-1972; Boston City Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School; United States. Veterans Administration
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1957
- Note (Biographical)
- Surgeon
- Note
- Interviewed by Saul Benison
- Note (Provenance)
- Edward Delos Churchill, Gift 1957
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 14387135
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/wvsw-8094
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.