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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Philip R. Lee papers
Identifier/Call Number: M2108
Physical Description:
1.668 Linear Feet
2 msb, 2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1960-1962
Philip R. Lee's research files concerning his U.S. Public Health Service medical ecology trip to the Soviet Union. Materials
include correspondence, journal entries, notes, printed material, glass slides, photographs, and sound recordings (transcription
discs).
Philip Randolph Lee (1924-) is a physician born in California, one of five children of Dr. Russel Van Arsdale Lee and Dorothy
Lee. Philip R. Lee worked as a family physician, as Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the US Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare, and as the chancellor of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). In 1960 he
traveled to the Soviet Union with 5 other physicians, where he observed health care practices and socialized medicine as part
of an exchange effort between the US and USSR to foster cooperation in public health between the two countries. He was part
of a "medical ecology delegation
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials
are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Philip R. Lee; 2016. Accession MSS 2016-010.
[identification of item], Philip R. Lee papers (M2108). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.