 John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection Interviews |
The Liebeskind History of Pain Collection contains oral histories with scientists, physicians, and other health professionals in the field of pain, and with chronic pain patients. The core collection consists of sixty interviews. These include interviews with leading pain scholars and clinicians such as John Bonica, Kathleen Foley, Ainsley Iggo, Ronald Melzack, Cicely Saunders, Richard Sternbach, and Patrick Wall. Master copies of the tapes and transcripts are available in the Biomedical Library after final review by the oral authors.
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| Health Sciences Interviews |
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UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research is dedicated to preserving the history of the UCLA and Southern California communities. Since its establishment, the program has recorded and processed more than five hundred interviews ranging from one hour to seventy-six hours in length.
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| The program has conducted major interviews on the history of the UCLA School of
Medicine, the Center for Health Sciences, the Neuropsychiatric Institute, and biomedical scientists. Besides providing biographical information on selected individuals and their careers, the interviews trace the evolution of medical progress, explain the background of administrative decisions, and record the role played by UCLA health providers in national affairs. For example, Dean Stafford L. Warren’s interview contains extensive material on radiation safety and the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and
subsequent atomic testing. Another example is that of Dean Sherman M.
Mellinkoff’s interview which documents UCLA’s role in upgrading health care in
South Central Los Angeles after the Watts insurrection and the creation of the
Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School and Martin Luther King Jr. General
Hospital.
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| Pew Scholar Interviews |
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The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences is designed to support early to midcareer investigators of outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health. The funding of the awards is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Under the auspices of the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research, oral histories were conducted with the Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. They provide insight into the careers of these scientists working in a variety of fields.
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| Human Genetics Interviews |
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The Oral History of Human Genetics Project, established in 2001 by Professor Edward R. B. McCabe at UCLA, is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the history of human genetics. In the past 50 years, technological, intellectual, social, and cultural developments have transformed human genetics into a dynamic field of biomedical science and clinical medicine that is revolutionizing how we understand health and disease. At this moment in history, we have a unique opportunity to capture the memories and insights of those people who created and advanced this revolution. The oral histories with clinicians, scientists, theorists, ethicists, and legal experts will be transcribed, annotated, and supplemented with documentary materials in an online searchable database that will be accessible to all researchers.
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