Guide to Oral Histories in Medicine and the Health Sciences

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J. Bay Jacobs, M.D. Library for the History of Obstetrics and Gynecology in America The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists   409 12th Street, SW Washington, D.C. 20024   (202) 863-2578   (202) 484-1595   http://www.acog.org   Debra Scarborough, History Librarian/Archivist   history@acog.org   None   The aim of the oral history project is to capture on videotape the recollections of obstetric and gynecologic physicians and nurses, persons of importance to the specialty, early leaders of ACOG, and ACOG presidents. The interviews typically start with a discussion of the subject's early life and medical education, followed by a discussion of their later career and topics of importance to them in the specialty. This series began at the 1983 ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting in Atlanta, When Warren H. Pearse, MD, the former Executive Director of ACOG, interviewed Woodard D. Beacham, MD, ACOG's first president.   The collection consists of forty-eight thirty-minute interviews on videotape (1983-2004) and DVD (2005- ). Every year two new interviews are recorded at the Annual Clinical Meeting.   INTERVIEWEES LIST   Video   Tapes must be viewed on-site. Loans limited to College Fellows.   None

Last reviewed: 21 May 2009
Last updated: 14 July 2006
First published: 14 July 2006
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