Guide to Oral Histories in Medicine and the Health Sciences

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Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Library, Information and Technology   8 Dwight Hall, 50 College Street South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075-6425   (413) 538-3079   (413) 538-3029   http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch   Jennifer Gunter King, Head of Archives and Special Collections jgking@mtholyoke.edu (413) 538-2441 Patricia Albright, Archives Librarian palbrigh@mtholyoke.edu (413) 538-2013   archives@mtholyoke.edu   Photocopies of the transcript will be provided under Fair Use guidelines and after a researcher completes the necessary user forms.   Partial transcript of an oral history interview of physician and anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar, Mount Holyoke College Class of 1929. Interview conducted by a member of the Class of 1966, Jourdan Houston, at Mount Holyoke in late May-early June, 1974. Forms part of MS 0816, the Virginia Apgar Collection (Series 1, Box 1, Folder 1).   1 item (8 pages), with related correspondence and newspaper article.   Interview of physician and anethesiologist Virginia Apgar. Discusses her medical school education at the Columbia-Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons (1929-1933); her summer work in hospitals during those years; her internship in surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (1933-1935); her decision to become anesthesiologist and her subsequent studies at the University of Wisconsin, her work in Columbia-Presbyterian's Division of Anesthesiology from 1937-1959; and the "Apgar Score" that she devised to test the health of newborn babies. Also mentions her studies for a master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University (completed in 1959), and her work for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (1959-1974).     Unrestricted when researchers complete Archives and Special Collections user forms.   Partial transcript, not available on the web.

Last reviewed: 25 July 2008
Last updated: 14 July 2006
First published: 14 July 2006
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