Leonard W. Jarcho, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Everett L. Cooley

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Title Leonard W. Jarcho, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Everett L. Cooley
Alternative Title No.285, Leonard W. Jarcho, interview by Everett L. Cooley
Creator Jarcho, Leonard W.
Contributor Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1989-12-07; 1989-12-15; 1989-12-18
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Date Digital 2014-09-16
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
Subject Jarcho, Leonard W.--Interviews; University of Utah--Faculty--Biography; Neurologists--Utah--Biography; University of Utah--History; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Description Transcript (157 pages) of interview by Everett L. Cooley with Leonard W. Jarcho, Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the University of Utah, on December 7, 15, and 18, 1989. This interview is no. 285 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. 1108 to 1113. Accompanied by Jarcho's curriculum vitae
Abstract Jarcho, Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the University of Utah, talks about his early family life in New York City, and about his education, including Harvard, Columbia, and his internship at Beth Israel. He recalls his army service in World War II, stationed at Fort Dix, in Manila, and on Guadalcanal. Details of his long career in medicine include a residency at Mount Sinai, Neurological studies with primates, a fellowship at Johns Hopkins, assistant chief of medicine at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City, NIH training in London, and the development of a Department of Neurology at the University of Utah. Topics also covered include discrimination, Eleanor Roosevelt, autopsies, Max Wintrobe, the importance of taking a good medical history, living in Salt Lake City, and problems in modern medical practice. Interviewer: Everett Cooley
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Genre oral histories (literary works)
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Language eng
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Topic Neurologists; University of Utah; World War (1939-1945)
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63b7mft