- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Henry Kahn oral history interview, 2019-09-26
- Creator:
- Kahn, Henry
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew James, 1977-
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2019-09-26
- Subject:
- Politics
Medicine
Medicine--Research
Medicine--Study and teaching
Student movements
Student newspapers and periodicals
Student protesters
Students--Political activity
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights and socialism
Center for Disease Control - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, 42.35843, -71.05977
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mpeg
- Description:
- Dr. Henry Kahn was born in 1943 in New York City. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He was a resident at Bronx University Medical Center and Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center. He has been a general medical internist in Atlanta since 1973, and served in the Epidemiology Intelligence Service at the U.S. Center for Disease Control. He was a professor at Emory University School of Medicine and worked with Grady Hospital to establish neighborhood health centers. Today his work includes research as a chronic-disease epidemiologist.
In this interview, Kahn covers much of his early life as a young Jewish boy in postwar New York City. He describes the anti-Semitism he and his family faced, his parents' political differences, and his early experiences with socialism. He discusses his education at Harvard, his work in medicine, and his civil rights activism. He describes his travels, his own political journey, and his work with the CDC. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10276
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Kahn, Henry interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, September 26, 2019, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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