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Milton Roemer collection of pamphlets and ephemera on health services
MSS 2001-27  
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Biography/Administrative History
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms
  • Additional collection guides

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Milton Roemer collection of pamphlets and ephemera on health services
    Dates: 1916-1993
    Collection Number: MSS 2001-27
    Creator/Collector: Roemer, Milton Irwin, 1916-2001
    Extent: 12.5 linear ft. (10 cartons).
    Repository: UC San Francisco. Special Collections
    San Francisco, California 94143-0840
    Abstract: Collection of pamphlets and ephemera on public health, socialized health care, medical economics. Bulk dates: 1930’s-1950’s. Strengths: Rural Health, Industrial/Labor Health.
    Language of Material: English

    Access

    Collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library & Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

    Preferred Citation

    Milton Roemer collection of pamphlets and ephemera on health services. UC San Francisco. Special Collections

    Acquisition Information

    Transferred from UCLA Special Collections.

    Biography/Administrative History

    Milton Irwin Roemer was born Mar. 24, 1916, in Paterson, N.J. He received a B.A. in Biology from Cornell Univ., an M.A. in Sociology from Cornell Univ., an M.D. from New York Univ., and did a rotating internship at the Barnett Memorial Hosp., Paterson, N.J. He received an M.P.H. from the Univ. of Michigan. Roemer was medical officer at N.J. Dept. of Health, 1941-42, and worked at the War Food Admin., U.S. Public Health Services, 1943-47. He was director at various prominent health organizations, 1948-57. He taught in the Dept. of Health, School of Medicine, Yale Univ., 1949-51, and at the Sloan Inst. of Hosp. Admin., Cornell Univ., 1957-62. He taught in the School of Medicine and School of Public Health at UCLA, 1962-87, and was head of various medical divisions, 1962-70. He worked in 71 countries, and published 32 books and 430 articles on the social aspects of health services. Roemer died 3 Jan. 2001 in Los Angeles.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Collection materials include reports, newsletters, brochures, articles, government documents, clippings, lecture typescripts, forming the working and reference files for giving lectures, and writing papers on national and local health services, health reforms, health legislation, and socialized health; chiefly 1930s-1950s. Subject strengths are Rural Health and Industrial/Labor Health.

    Indexing Terms

    Medical policy
    Medical care
    Medical economics
    Rural health

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