Guide to Oral Histories in Medicine and the Health Sciences



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Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum

address   National Institutes of Health 31 Center Drive, Room 5B-38, MSC 2092 Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2092

telephone   (301) 496-6610

fax   (301) 402-1434

Website URL   http://www.history.nih.gov

Contact Person   Alan Schechter, Acting Director
aschecht@helix.nih.gov
Michele Lyons, Curator
lyonsm@mail.nih.gov
Sarah Leavitt, Associate Historian
leavitts@mail.nih.gov
Brooke Fox, Archivist
foxbro@mail.nih.gov
Buhm Soon Park, Associate Historian
parkb@mail.nih.gov

E-mail   museum@nih.gov
history@nih.gov

Access & Services   Services are provided on a case-by-case basis. We have a small staff but are able to accommodate most requests. We do not loan out the tapes, but many of the oral histories are available digitally.

Abstact   The Office of NIH History maintains a collection of several hundred oral history interviews conducted by staff and fellows since the late 1980s. The subjects of the interviews include NIH scientists and administrators.

Quantity   There are several hundred oral histories in our collection. Oral histories are added to the collection each year by the Stetten fellows and by staff members.

Collection Description   The oral histories have been collected on a project basis. Each year we have several fellows who conduct their own research projects and most of them conduct between five and twenty oral histories on specific themes. We have a strong collection of oral histories of NIH scientists and staff who worked with AIDS patients in the 1980s that were conducted by the then-Director of our office and her staff. Also, our collection includes interviews with retiring scientists and high-level administrators that were conducted upon request by particular institutes at NIH.

Material Type   Our oral histories were recorded on cassette tapes which are retained by the office. We have digital video images of one oral history.

Restrictions   No. The interviews are in the public domain.

transcripts   Yes, all oral histories are transcribed. We have a selected few available on the web (http://www.history.nih.gov , click on "oral histories") but most are available digitally upon request (i.e. they can be emailed as an attachment).

Last reviewed: 21 May 2009
Last updated: 20 July 2006
First published: 20 July 2006
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