West Virginia University. Health Sciences Center

Overview Six boxes of subject files related to the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center and Physician Services from 1958 to 1995. Subject files chiefly include clippings, press releases, pamphlets, letters, forms, and other materials related to both medical and administrative subjects connected to the university's Health Sciences Center. Medical files cover a wide range of topics, including not limited to diet, ethics, genetics, mental health, AIDS, the dental school, exercise, pathology,...

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Collection of class photographs from a number of departments within the Health Sciences Center (HSC), in addition to materials covering the 2010 HSC 50th anniversary and materials from the forming of the Health Sciences Library as well as miscellaneous materials relating to or collected by Alderson Fry, the first Medical Librarian at West Virginia University (1954).

Scope and Contents Research materials regarding the history of the West Virginia University Medical Center (now the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center) compiled between 1960 and 1989 by Dolores A. Fleming, Jeanne Grimm, and Patricia Schumann, authors of Generation of Growth: A Contemporary View of the West Virginia School of Medicine, published in 1990. Materials include subject files related to administration, continuing education, curriculum, endowments, financing,...