Guide to Oral Histories in Medicine and the Health Sciences



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respository		  
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
address   8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20894

telephone   (301) 496-5405
Reference: (301) 402-8878
1-888-346-3656 (1-888-FIND-NLM)

fax   (301)402-0872

Website URL   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/archives/ammp/index.html

Contact Person   John P. Rees, Curator, Archives and Modern Manuscripts

E-mail  

Access & Services   Interlibrary loan, reference, and photocopying

Abstact   Oral history collections, chiefly from the 1970s to the present, consist of interviews with physicians, scientists, health policy administrators, and health-business executives.

Quantity   313 collections; 1800+ tapes/reels

Collection Description   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/oh.html Plus 164 unprocessed items, mainly FDA Oral History Program additions. In addition there is a History of Health Services Research Project Oral History Project. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/nichsr/home.html

Material Type   Audio and video

Restrictions   Restrictions on specified interviews exist.

transcripts   Some transcripts are available. None are on the web.

Last reviewed: 21 May 2009
Last updated: 12 July 2006
First published: 12 July 2006
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