Descriptive Summary
The "Making Cancer History© Voices" collection documents the history of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Personal interviews with the men and women of M.D. Anderson who dedicated their work to eliminating cancer provide unique insights into a host of important social, medical, political, and scientific developments related to cancer. The goal of the project is to tell the story of the many facets of the birth of oncology as a medical discipline; the emergency and evolution of surgery, diagnostic radiology, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy; the rise of nursing oncology; the impact of genetics and molecular biology on medical research; and cancer's place in the evolution of public health policy. The relative youth of MD Anderson, which belies its seminal role in the history, means that it's present and recently retired faculty and staff are only one generation removed from the pioneers. Today their voices have been captured. Their side by side experiences with the pioneers recalled, recorded, and made available to everyone.
Available Interviews:
- Peter Almond Oral History Interview, June 4, 2004
- Thomas Anderson Oral History Interview, May 18, 2004
- Ornell Balzer Oral History Interview, September 4, 2003
- Frederick Becker Oral History Interview, June 19, 2008
- Gerald Bodey Oral History Interview, March 3, 2003
- James Bowen Oral History Inteview, March 27, 2000
- Lora-Francis Davis Oral History Interview, June 18, 2005
- Edmund Gehan Oral History Interview, March 28, 2003
- Renilda Hilkemeyer Oral History Interview, May 23, 2000
- T.C. Hsu Oral History Interview, April 11, 2001
- T.C. Hsu Oral History Interview, May 10, 2001
- Mavis Kelsey Oral History Interview, May 11, 2009
- Charles LeMaistre Oral History Interview, May 6, 2004
- Ti Li Loo Oral History Interview, May 19, 2000
- Marion Lowrey Oral History Interview, May 5, 2001
- Eleanor MacDonald Oral History Interview, May 19, 2000
- Peter Mansell & Susan Cooper Oral History Interview, February 28, 2003
- Peter Mansell, Susan Cooper and Earle Shelp Oral History Interview, September 20, 2004
- Thomas Matney Oral History Interview, September 26, 2007
- Eleanor Montague Oral History Interview, April 6, 2000
- James J. Pickle and Clifford Drummond Oral History Interview, March 15, 2005
- Charles Shullenberger Oral History Interview, April 26, 2001
Interviews in Process:
- Michael Ahearn
- Roger Anderson
- Cecil Brewer
- James Cox
- Gerald Dodd
- Isaiah Fidler
- Ralph Freedman
- Emil Freireich
- Kenneth Gray
- Jack Griesnbeck
- Jordan Gutterman
- Thomas Haynie
- C. Stratton Hill
- Margaret Kripke
- James McKinley
- John Mendelsohn
- Regina Rogers
- Melvin Samuels
- George Stancel
- Howard Thames
- James Thompson
- Stephen Tomasovic
- Jan Van Eys
- Sidney Wallace
- Stuart Zimmerman
