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Collection: Harvard School of Public Health. Harvard Prevention

WEBThe Harvard Prevention Research Center (HPRC) on Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Harvard School of Public Health (as of 2014, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), previously the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center, was founded in 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts to work with local, community, and …

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Records of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, …

WEBRecords of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a non-profit women's health education, advocacy and consulting organization that grew out of a small discussion group in 1969, and first became known for their pioneering handbook, Our Bodies, Ourselves.

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Collection: Alexander D. Langmuir papers HOLLIS for

WEBAlexander D. Langmuir (1910-1993), AB, 1931, Harvard College; MD, 1935, Cornell University; MPH, 1940, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, was Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School from 1970 to 1977 and chief epidemiologist for the Epidemiology Branch of the Public Health Service of the National Communicable …

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Collection: Herbert Benson papers HOLLIS for

WEBBiography. Herbert Benson, MD, a cardiologist and specialist in mind/body medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was born in 1935 in Yonkers, New York. He received the AB from Wesleyan University in 1957, and, after serving as class president from 1958-1959, he received the MD from Harvard Medical School (HMS

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Records of the Women's Community Health Center, 1953-1987 …

WEBRecords of the Women's Community Health Center, a women-owned and women-controlled health center which provided medical services, primarily gynecological exams and abortions, and educational programs advocating the concept and practice of self-help, the sharing of skills and information to assist women in gaining control of their own …

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Harvard School of Public Health. Office of the Dean records

WEBThe Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School for Health Officers was founded in 1913 by a group of faculty including George C. Whipple (1866-1924), William T. Sedgwick (1855-1921), and Milton J. Rosenau (1869-1946).

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Pierce, Chester M. HOLLIS for

WEBChester Middlebook Pierce (born 1927), M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1952, A.B., Harvard College, 1948, was a senior psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, a psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and professor of education at Harvard University.

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Stare, Fredrick J. (Fredrick John), 1910-2002 HOLLIS for

WEBFredrick John Stare (1910–2002) was an American nutritionist regarded as one of the country's most influential teachers of nutrition. In 1942, Stare founded the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, which was the first such program in the country not to be associated with an agriculture school.

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Collection: Additional Records of the Boston Women's …

WEBAdditional records of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a non-profit women's health education, advocacy and consulting organization, including administrative records; founder's files; engagements and project files; material relating to the publication, revision, and adaptation of several versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves; memorabilia; audiovisual …

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Collection: Erich Lindemann papers HOLLIS for

WEBScope and Contents. The Erich Lindemann papers, 1885-1991 (inclusive), 1950-1974 (bulk), are the product of Lindemann’s professional, research, teaching, and publishing activities throughout the course of his career. The papers are arranged in nine series: I. Professional Appointments Files (1915-1978, undated); II.

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Collection: Harvard School of Public Health. Longitudinal Studies …

WEBThe Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development (the "Growth Study") (circa 1930-1990), Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1930 by Harold Coe Stuart (1891-1976), in the Department of Maternal and Child Health. It was founded in response to the 1930 White House Conference on Child Health and …

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Washington Home for The Incurables (Washington, D.C.)

WEBSince there was so much demand for the services, it was moved in 1923 just north was the Washington Cathedral on Wisconsin Avenue between Tilden and Upton Streets. By 1933 The Home was again over capacity, so the building was expanded. By 1986 the building was razed and replaced with a larger, state of the art facility with direct-access from

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Records of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, 1776-ca.1985

WEBLydia Estes Pinkham (1819-1883) was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the tenth of twelve children of Quakers William and Rebecca Estes. The Estes family were radical abolitionists, as well as admirers of (but never strict adherents to) Swedenborgian religious views.

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Collection: Chester M. Pierce Papers HOLLIS for

WEBThe Chester M. Pierce papers, 1938-2015 (inclusive), 1960-2002 (bulk), are the product of Chester M. Pierce’s administrative, teaching, professional, writing, and research activities throughout the course of his career as a psychiatrist who studied race, racial equity, and extreme environments, such as racism, stress, and polar environments.

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I've kicked the habit. Caution: war may be hazardous to your …

WEBHoughton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge.

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Papers of Jeanne Mager Stellman, 1968-2020

WEBJeanne Esther (Mager) Stellman, daughter of Abraham and Rosalie (Shapiro) Mager, was born in Bensheim, Germany (American Zone) on May 27, 1947. She immigrated to the United States in 1948 and obtained her Certificate of Citizenship in 1951. In 1967, she married Steven D. Stellman (epidemiologist scientist); they have two children, Andrew …

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Papers of Hildegard E. Peplau, 1923-1984

WEBHildegard Elizabeth Peplau, educator and psychiatric nurse, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on September 1, 1909, the daughter of Polish and Russian immigrants Gustav and Ottylie Peplau. Gustav Peplau (1882-1949) worked as a fireman at the Reading Railroad yards for 31 years. Ottylie Peplau (1883-1944) maintained the family's home …

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Harvard Community Health Plan General, 1983-1985, 1983-1985

WEBOur mission is to enable the history of medicine and public health to inform healthcare, the health sciences, and the societies in which they are embedded. Contact: 10 Shattuck Street. Boston MA 02115. (617) 432-2170. [email protected].

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Collection: Harvard-MIT School of Public Health. Department of

WEBThe Harvard-MIT School of Public Health Department of Industrial Hygiene executive administrative files, 1915-1982 (inclusive), 1915-1934 (bulk), are the product of departmental activities, especially relating to the founding of the department around 1922.

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