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.