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Reminiscences of Mary Lasker, 1965.

Creator: Lasker, Mary
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 1,157 pages
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Promoter of medical research, philanthropist; interviewee married Albert D. Lasker

Scope and Contents

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 legislation 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

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2005

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