Men of medicine

Men of medicine

Contributor(s):
Fishbein, Morris, 1889-1976
Parran, Thomas, Jr., 1892-1968
Publication:
[Chicago, IL : American Medical Association], 1938
Language(s):
English
Format:
Moving image
Subject(s):
Health Services Accessibility
Physicians
United States
Abstract:
This is the story of doctors' and scientists' training, practice, research, discoveries, and place in the community and the wider health care system. The role of the federal government in funding medical care for those who can't afford it is presented as well, with proponents of socialized medicine, cooperative medicine, and complete nonintervention as advocated by the American Medical Association addressed. Shots include: medical students in classrooms, graduation exercises, physicians' shingles, ambulance, white blood cell test with tally sheet, surgery in a theater, free clinic waiting room during the Depression, poor rural people, speeches by Morris Fishbein and Thomas Parran, Jr., sterilization equipment, basal metabolism machine, hydrotherapeutic baths, artificial fever chambers for syphilis cures, jugs of vaccines in warehouse, and exteriors of the American Medical Association in Chicago and Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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Copyright Information:
March of Time, Inc.; Source: Item; Research date: 09/12/2011
Related Title(s):
March of time (Motion picture)
Extent:
017 min.
Color:
Black and white
Credits:
Morris Fishbein, Thomas Parran, Jr.
Provenance:
Received: 1968 as a donation from the American Medical Association.
Technique:
Live action
NLM Unique ID:
8500744A (See catalog record)
OCLC no.:
31667820
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8500744A