Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Code

D012749

Scope note(s)

  • Diseases due to or propagated by sexual contact.

Source note(s)

  • Medical Subject Headings

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    Hierarchical terms

    Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    Equivalent terms

    Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    • UF STDs
    • UF STIs
    • UF Sexually Transmitted Infections
    • UF Venereal Diseases

    Associated terms

    Sexually Transmitted Diseases

      16 Archival description results for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

      US AA033 · Collection · 1933-1977

      This collection consists of the correspondence and manuscripts of Dr. Harold T. Hyman, organized alphabetically in two boxes in a single series. Correspondence is filed by correspondent's surname, all other files by title or subject.
      The highlight of Dr. Hyman's correspondence is an extensive collection of letters to and from Dr. Lawrence Kubie, a prominent New York psychoanalyst (Folder 1-27.) A series of letters from 1937 documents an acrimonious split between the two doctors in the wake of Dr. Hyman's 1936 lecture critical of psychoanalysis. By 1939, however, when Dr. Kubie was recruited to head Mount Sinai's Psychiatric Division (then part of the Department of Neurology), he and Dr. Hyman had reconciled. He shared updates on his progress in the reorganization of the department and copied Dr. Hyman on additional letters and manuscripts related to the project. Of particular note among these attachments is a long letter from Kubie to Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith of the Josiah Macy Foundation discussing his reorganization of the department and his attempt (with hypnotherapist Milton Erickson) to use Dr. Hyman's intravenous drip method to develop a "pharmacology of hypnosis." As Kubie struggled to implement his vision for the department, the correspondents shared their mutual frustration with the administration of Mount Sinai by lay trustees rather than medical professionals. Following Kubie's resignation from Mount Sinai in 1943, the two doctors continued to correspond on the relationship between psychoanalysis and physiology.
      A file of correspondence with Waldemar Kaempffert, Science Editor of the New York Times (Folder 1-20), documents Dr. Hyman's efforts to publicize his research work. A collection of letters of congratulation regarding the success of the syphilis drip treatment (Folder 2-23) includes numerous letters from luminaries at Mount Sinai (including John Garlock and Bernard Sachs) as well as prominent friends and patients. Most other correspondence files are smaller, containing only one or two letters; of note are two letters (Folder 1-19) from Justine Johnstone (later Wanger), a former silent film actress who took up a second career in medicine and worked as Dr. Hyman's research assistant on the syphilis drip treatment project.
      A series of files on Dr. Hyman's An Integrated Practice of Medicine (Folders 1-14 through 1-18) relate primarily to the promotion and reception of the book series, including an extensive collection of review clippings.
      Folders 2-7 through 2-12 contain the manuscripts of Religio Medici, Hyman's work discussing the philosophy of medicine, science and religion. There is no single "final" copy of the manuscript, only chapter drafts in various stages of revision. The collection as received included at least one relatively complete manuscript identifiable by rubber-stamped page numbers as well as numerous additional drafts. The manuscripts have been arranged by chapter.
      Some pages of Religio Medici were edited using scissors and scotch tape to revise and add text to the page contents. For preservation purposes, these pages were photocopied to archival paper. In cases where significant changes were made to the text, a copy of the "final" version has been kept alongside a copy of the "original" page with the additions removed; in cases of purely cosmetic changes (for example, moving a header relative to whitespace without changing to the content), only a copy of the final version was kept.
      In addition to Religio Medici, the collection contains an assortment of autobiographical manuscripts (Folder 1-2), including what appears to be a fragment of a larger work that, unlike Religio Medici, is straightforwardly autobiographical and contains reflections on the specifically medical aspects of Dr. Hyman's career. Folder 2-5 contains a manuscript titled "Personality Gleanings and Vignettes from a Cosmopolitan Medical Practice," a list of brief notes (possibly an outline for a larger unfinished manuscript) which contains Dr. Hyman's unvarnished opinions of many of his contemporaries. Folders 1-5 through 1-10 contain the contents of numerous small envelopes that Dr. Hyman used as subject files to organize his notes and observations on particular subjects, apparently as part of the same autobiographical process that produced "Gleaning and Vignettes." These have been photocopied to archival paper and arranged alphabetically.

      Hyman, Harold Thomas, 1894-

      In this interview Dr. Kotler talks about his childhood influences and interest in medicine, his schooling and his desire to not be a only a scientist but an academic physician; his early research that became heavily HIV-based and experiences around that research and patient care; he also touches on the subjects of changes in medical practice and equipment; writing grants and journal articles and those challenges, and comments on the changing names of Mount Sinai Health System hospitals. He mentions the following names: Drs. Russ Gaetz, Bill Ramey, John Scholes, Fred Clayton, Mike Lange, Yori Inada, Michael Greico, Michael Lange, Peter Holt, Mary O’Sullivan, Joe Sonnabend, Richard Pierson, Steve Heymsfield, Jack Wang, Anthony S. Fauci, Sami Hashem, Jan Orenstein, John H. Keating, Ted Van Itallie, Carl Hoffman, Jim Fingerhut, and George Cahill.

      Kotler, Donald P.

      The interview topics include Dr. Turino’s childhood, college and medical school years, and the research he did after medical school (Class of 1948), in particular, his Korean War service working at the National Research Council where his team created Dextran, a substitute for plasma. He describes his fellowship experiences that started in a cardiopulmonary laboratory, to focus on cardio function, but led to studying lung function. Significant mentions include a fellowship with the NY Heart Association, and his time as an investigator for the City of New York. A collaboration with Ines Mandl, PhD, whose special interest is the elastic tissue of the body, led to investigating mechanisms of lung injury, and this lead to studying alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and desmosine and isodesmosine as biomarkers in COPD.

      Dr. Turino relates how he established the James P. Mara Center for Lung Disease, how he became the first John H. Keating Professor of Medicine at the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (SLR), and his efforts to make SLR a top tier research hospital. He discusses several of the outstanding researchers he recruited to SLR, and his work with several professional organizations. Of particular interest are his accounts of fund raising with American Lung Association and his involvement with the start of promoting asthma research, as well as his current clinical trials with the hyaluronan as a potential therapy for alpha-1 antitrypsin patients.

      He touches on family life, wife and children, and their directions in life early in the interview and his recreational choices later in the conversation. Dr. Braun asks his opinion on the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, and his vision for the future of medical science.

      Significant names or topics mentioned in the interview include: Dr. André Frédéric Cournand; Dr. Dickinson W. Richard; Alfred Fishman; Karl Meyer, MD, PhD; Ines Mandl, PhD; James P. Mara Center for Lung Disease; Jahar Bhattacharya MD, DPhil; Alan Rozanski, MD; David J. Volsky, PhD; Seymour Lieberman; Yong Y. Lin, PhD; AIDS/HIV; American Thoracic Society; Shuren Ma, PhD; hyaluronan; hyaluronic acid; Jerome Cantor; Matrix Therapeutics; Medical Science Institute; Dr. Arthur J. Antenucci.

      Turino, Gerard M.

      Judith L. Axelrod, MD is on the staff of the Division of Infectious Diseases of Department of Medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital. She speaks about her early influences, her training, professional relationships, her experience as a woman working in medicine in the 1970s through the 2000s, and how her work meshed with her family life. Dr. Axelrod also discusses the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. During her interview, Dr. Axelrod speaks about Donna Mildvan, MD, Arthur Ashe, John Hutchinson, MD, Solomon A. Berson, MD, Theodore B. VanItallie, MD, Michael H. Grieco, MD., Jeanne Baer, MD, Airlie Cameron, MD, and Sami A. Hashim, MD.

      Axelrod, Judith
      US AA088.S011.INT200 · File · 2018-03-28
      Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

      In this interview, Dr. Newman discusses his recruitment to Beth Israel by his predecessor Ray Trussell, MD; his relationship with the Board of Trustees; BI’s role in the AIDS crisis and addiction treatment; the acquisition of Doctors Hospital and Kings Highway Hospital; the establishment of a Japanese-language medical practice; the affiliation with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt and creation of Continuum Health Partners. Individuals discussed include: Ray Trussell, MD; Charles Silver; Harold Fierman; Milton Petrie; Donna Mildvan; Harold Trigg, MD; Vincent Dole, MD and Marie Nyswander, PhD; Morton Hyman.

      Webb, Nicholas
      Mount Sinai Films
      US AA147.F111 · File · 2023
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai related websites
      • https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/films
      • This page of the Mount Sinai Health System website links out to films commissioned by the Mount Sinai Health System. They include: "The Calling: Mount Sinai Nurses," "Faces of Care" [interviews with various Mount Sinai Health System employees], "From Darkness to Light" [history of the Peter Krueger Clinic, one of the first HIV/AIDS clinics in the United States], "Born to Be" [follows Dr. Jess Ting, a gender-affirming specialist at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery], and "The Surge at Mount Sinai" [on COVID-19 in Spring 2020].
      Mount Sinai Health System (New York, N.Y.)
      US AA117.S004.SS050.SS007 · Subseries · 1973-2001
      Part of Mount Sinai Medical Center records

      This collection of papers from Dr. Rowe’s office is different from previous Presidents’ collections, providing a higher level view of Mount Sinai. There are very few files relating to the various departments of the Medical School or the Hospital as is seen in earlier President’s files. There is also little here relating to the Hospital’s establishment of the Mount Sinai Health System, although the merger with New York University is covered. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that Dr. Rowe served as President of the Mount Sinai Medical Center only. Earlier Presidents had also been Dean of the School of Medicine and so had oversight over these departmental or institution specific issues.

      There is a great wealth of material regarding Mount Sinai’s efforts vis-à-vis other institutions. This includes proposed initiatives with Columbia University, the affiliation with the City’s Queens Hospital Center and the years of controversy over privatization of the Queens’ municipal hospitals, and the School of Medicine’s affiliation contracts with Elmhurst and Queens Hospitals. There are also files relating to the Department of Geriatrics and the development of creating ties with businesses and Keio University in Japan.

      The merger with New York University is documented by two distinct series of files that were received and processed separately. The “MS-NYU Initiative” files (boxes 24-25) cover the initial proposal, development and implementation of the merger. The “NYU” files (boxes 27-28) document Dr. Rowe’s service as President of the combined Mount Sinai-NYU Health following the merger and include departmental correspondence, real estate / building records, and an extensive collection of material related to the NYU Downtown Hospital.

      Mount Sinai’s real estate holdings and physical facilities are documented by an extensive subject file on buildings (BLD, boxes 4-6), and its financial activities by a finance series (FIN, boxes 13-14) and an extensive series on fundraising (FND, boxes 15-20.) There is a small amount of material related to Mount Sinai School of Medicine (box 26), primarily covering commencements, convocations and honorary degrees.

      Also of importance are the extensive files on the search for a new Dean in 1996/97, the many files charting Mount Sinai’s efforts to deal with the rise of AIDS in New York, and the files on establishing the Office of Technology Transfer and its later efforts, a matter of great importance to institutions in the late 20th, early 21st century.

      Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York, N.Y.). Office of the President