Browse History of Medicine Finding Aids
There are 219 items in this collection Browsing Creators starting with k.
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| Creator / [Collection date] | Item information |
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| Kantrowitz, Adrian / [1944-2004] |
Title: Adrian Kantrowitz Papers 1944-2004
Extent: 64 linear feet (44 boxes + films) Call Number: MS C 572 Abstract: Adrian Kantrowitz (1918- ) is an American heart surgeon and medical investigator responsible for pioneering developments in circulatory assist devices, artificial organs, medical electronics, heart transplantation, and research motion pictures. Grant material, experiment data, patient medical records, correspondence, publications, conference material, publicity clippings, and audio-visual media document Adrian Kantrowitz's professional career in cardiovascular research at the Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn and the Sinai Hospital of Detroit. |
| Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950 / [1904-1950] |
Title: Jefferson Randolph Kean Papers
1904-1950
Extent: 0.42 linear feet Call Number: MS C 14 Abstract: |
| King, Charles Glen, 1896-1988 / [1918-1988] |
Title: Charles Glen King Papers
1918-1988
Extent: 1.25 linear feet (3 mss. boxes) Call Number: MS C 473 Abstract: Biochemist and prominent investigator in nutrition. Topics covered include King's life; his work and the work of his competitor Albert Szent-Gyorgi on vitamin C; and the Nutrition Foundation. |
| Kinyoun, Joseph J. (Joseph James), 1860-1919 / [1899-1939] |
Title: Joseph J. Kinyoun Papers
1899-1939
Extent: .4 linear feet (1 box) Call Number: MS C 464 Abstract: Physician, bacteriologist, first director of the Hygienic Laboratory. M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1882; Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1896. From 1887 to 1899 directed Hygienic Laboratory for the Marine Hospital Service, and from 1899 to 1901 directed plague activities in San Francisco. |
| Knopf, Sigard Adolphus, 1857-1940 / [1879-1940] |
Title: Sigard Adolphus Knopf Papers
1879-1940
Extent: 5.67 linear feet (14 boxes) Call Number: MS C 41 Abstract: S. Adolphus Knopf was the author of over 400 books, brochures, and articles of tuberculosis, school hygiene, pneumonia, medical biography, birth control, alcoholism, and other medical and social subjects. Among the subjects dicussed in the correspondence are tuberculosis, controlled diaphragmatic respiration, birth control, cremation and burial, and psychical research. |
| Kober, George Martin, 1850-1931 / [1866-1938] |
Title: George M. Kober Papers
1866-1938
Extent: 25 ms boxes and 6 volumes Call Number: MS C 315 Abstract: Dr. George M. Kober was acting Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army from 1874-86, and in 1890 became Professor of Hygiene at the Georgetown Medical School. An active member of civic and professional organizations, Kober was particularly interested in local health reform. He was Dean of the Georgetown Medical School from 1901-28. Correspondence includes family, general, and business files as well as anniversary volumes of letters. Collection contains material on a variety of medical and public health issues, as well as autobiographical data. |
| Kolb, Lawrence, 1881-1972 / [1912-1972] |
Title: Lawrence Kolb Papers
1912-1972
Extent: 14 MS. boxes Call Number: MS C 279 Abstract: Dr. Lawrence Kolb was a pioneer in the medical approach to narcotics addiction treatment and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was one of the first to advocate treating drug addicts as patients, not criminals. The collection deals chiefly with the subjects of drug addiction, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and mental health. |
| Koop, C. Everett (Charles Everett), 1916- / [1933-2005 (bulk 1980-1998)] |
Title: C. Everett Koop Papers
1933-2005 (bulk 1980-1998)
Extent: 101.25 linear feet (152 boxes) Call Number: MS C 489 Abstract: Dr. C. Everett Koop was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) in February 1981, and sworn in as Surgeon General on November 17, 1981. The collection documents Koop's career as a leading pediatric surgeon during the 1950s-1970s, his activities as Surgeon General from 1981-1989 and the many public health issues with which he was concerned, and some of his post-Surgeon General's career as a health advocate. |
