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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826181903321

Titolo

The medical follow-up agency : the first fifty years, 1946-1996 / / Edward D. Berkowitz and Mark J. Santangelo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1999

ISBN

0-309-18415-0

1-280-21028-1

9786610210282

0-309-59695-5

0-585-00910-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Collana

The Compass series

Altri autori (Persone)

BerkowitzEdward D

SantangeloMark J

Disciplina

616.9/8023/097309045

Soggetti

Veterans - Health and hygiene - Research - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-124) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""The Medical Follow-up Agency""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Foreword""; ""Authors' Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Creating the Agency""; ""THE IDEA""; ""ORGANIZING A PLAN OF ACTION""; ""FINDING THE FUNDING""; ""2 The Early Committee Years""; ""FOLLOW-UP STUDIES""; ""STARTING THE FOLLOW-UP AGENCY""; ""THE FIRST ROUND OF STUDIES""; ""IMPACT OF THE KOREAN WAR""; ""REVIEWING THE AGENCY'S PROGRESS""; ""3 Changing Times""; ""NEW PROJECTS IN THE LATE 1950's""; ""TRANSITIONS IN PERSONNEL""; ""DECLINE OF THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS MEDICAL PROBLEMS""; ""NEW CORE FUNDS""

""COMMITTEE ON EPIDEMIOLOGY AND VETERANS FOLLOW-UP STUDIES""""THE NEW COMMITTEE'S MISSION""; ""THE TWIN AND PRISONER OF WAR STUDIES MATURE""; ""THE AGENCY IN THE AGE OF THE GREAT SOCIETY AND ITS AFTERMATH""; ""VIETNAM AND THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION""; ""4 Recent Decades""; ""THE FIRE IN SAINT LOUIS""; ""AT MID-DECADE""; ""THE ASSEMBLY OF LIFE SCIENCES""; ""SEYMOUR JABLON IN CHARGE""; ""WILLIAM PAGE'S INTERIM""; ""THE 1990's""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Notes""; ""Medical Follow-up Agency Publication List, 1946-1996""; ""1946""; ""1949""; ""1950"";



""1951""; ""1952""; ""1953""; ""1954""; ""1955""

""1956""""1957""; ""1958""; ""1959""; ""1960""; ""1961""; ""1962""; ""1963""; ""1964""; ""1965""; ""1966""; ""1967""; ""1968""; ""1969""; ""1970""; ""1971""; ""1972""; ""1973""; ""1974""; ""1975""; ""1976""; ""1977""; ""1978""; ""1979""; ""1980""; ""1981""; ""1982""; ""1983""; ""1984""; ""1985""; ""1986""; ""1987""; ""1988""; ""1989""; ""1990""; ""1991""; ""1992""; ""1993""; ""1994""; ""1995""; ""1996""; ""Index""; ""About the Authors""