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Collection TauH : Helen B. Taussig Collection

Description

Key

39933

Reference Code Element

TauH

Dates

1928-1986, inclusive

Extent

132 linear feet

Creator

Personal name, Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986.

Administrative/Biographical History

Helen B. Taussig
24 May 1898-20 May 1986
Helen B. Taussig was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her A.B. in 1921 from the University of California and her M.D. in 1927 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She served as an Archibald Fellow in Medicine at Johns Hopkins and worked at the heart station from 1927 until 1928. From 1928 until 1930, she interned in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1930, Edwards Park appointed Taussig physician-in-charge of the Harriet Lane Cardiac Clinic, a position she held until 1963. She also served on the faculty of the school of medicine from 1930 until 1963, when she became professor emeritus of pediatrics. Taussig was a pioneer in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease. She helped to develop the surgical procedure commonly known as the "blue baby" operation and discovered the teratological effects of the drug thalidomide when administered to pregnant women.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1927-1963

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1930-1986

Scope and Content

The Helen B. Taussig Collection spans her entire career at Johns Hopkins and documents her varied professional and personal activities. Professional materials include correspondence, grant records, manuscripts, notes, patient records, and research materials relating to tetralogy of Fallot patients and their long-term follow-up. Personal materials include awards, biographical material, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and scrapbooks. The collection documents Taussig's activities as a national leader in promoting health care issues and her support of a wide range of social causes, including her successful campaign in the early 1960's to ban the use of thalidomide by pregnant women.

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

1983

Processing Information

The Helen Taussig Collection was processed by Harold Kanarek in 1983, with support by NIH Grant 03594 from the National Library of Medicine. Students assistants John Hoffman, Karen Pecora, Ellen Farina, Paul Sorrentino, and Rodney Carter worked on the project. Data entry assistance in completing the finding aid for the Helen Taussig Collection was provided by Emma Graf, who converted the unpublished collection inventory to the catalog in 2009.

Accession

2021-002

2007-081

1990-162

Composed Of

Found 15 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
1.1- Correspondence with Individuals	39934		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
1.2- Corporate Correspondence	40195		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
1.3- Family Correspondence - Family Members	40501	1917-1978.	Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
1.4- Patient Correspondence	40502		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
1.5- Thalidomide Correspondence	40655		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
2- Biographical Material and Memorabilia	101908	1925-1980	Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
3- Government Testimony and Legislation	102352		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
4- Scientific Writing	102681		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
5- Tetralogy of Fallot Follow Up Study	160745		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
6- Congenital Malformations of the Heart	160754		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
7- Patient Records	160755		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
8- Terminated Grants and Budgets	160756		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
9- Photographs and audiovisual media	147598		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
10- Scrapbooks, awards, miscellaneous memorabilia	160757		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection
11- Publications by others	160758		Series	CollectionTauH- Helen B. Taussig Collection

Related Artifacts

Found 85 record(s)

Available Actions	Artifact Numbersort by Artifact Number ascending	Titlesort by Title ascending
	82A	Albert Lasker Award
	87A	Chinese Platter
	88A	Chinese Platter
	131A	Inscribed Dissecting Light Microscope
	475A	Electrocardiograph "Versa-Scribe"
	573A	American Heart Association's Helen B. Taussig Award
	981A	John Howland
	982A	Kober Medal
	983A	Variety Club Bracelet
	984A	Eleanor Roosevelt Award
	985A	Venezuelan Society of Cardiology
	986A	National Academy of Medicine, Mexico
	987A	First Elected Governer of the Virgin Islands
	988A	American Heart Association
	989A	Johns Hopkins Hospital 75th Anniversary
	990A	Distinguished Service
	991A	Presidential Medal of Freedom
	992A	American College of Chest Physicians
	993A	University of Vienna
	994A	University of Helsinki
	995A	Lyndon B. Johnson
	996A	Key to the City of New Orleans
	997A	Georgetown University School of Medicine
	1286A	Presentation Stethoscope
	1582A	The Albert Lasker Award

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