Scope and Contents
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and research material relating to the professional career of Paul H. Lavietes. The papers include items relating to his investigation for possible Communist sympathies by the Veterans Administration and the House Committee on Un-American Activities and document his involvement in medical research, various controversies over drug treatments for diabetes, conflict of interest in the pharmaceutical industry, and the John Punnett Peters Memorial Lectures.
Dates
- 1937-1987
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ruth Lavietes, 1990 and 1991.
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in six series: I. General files, 1943-1987, n.d. II. Loyalty case files, 1956, n.d. III. Research files, 1951-1987, n.d. IV. John Punnett Peters files, 1937-1975. V. Writings, 1939-1973. VI. Photographs, 1937-1955, n.d.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and research material relating to the professional career of Paul H. Lavietes. The papers include items relating to his investigation for possible Communist sympathies by the Veterans Administration and the House Committee on Un-American Activities and document his involvement in medical research, various controversies over drug treatments for diabetes, conflict of interest in the pharmaceutical industry, and the John Punnett Peters Memorial Lectures.
Biographical / Historical
Paul Harold Lavietes was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1907. He received his B.S. degree from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University in 1927 and his M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine in 1930. Lavietes was a physician on the staff of the Yale School of Medicine from 1932 until his retirement in 1987. He also served as a consulting physician at several Connecticut hospitals, including the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Haven. He was investigated for possible Communist sympathies by the Veterans Administration and the Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy era, and acquitted of all charges after an administrative hearing by the Veterans Administration. Lavietes was a founding editor of the Yale-sponsored Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and a long-time member of its advisory board. In 1971 he became the founding medical director of the Community Health Care Plan in New Haven, a post from which he retired in 1981. Lavietes specialized in internal medicine, particularly metabolic diseases. He died in 1990.
- Bendectin (Trademark) -- Toxicology
- Communism -- United States
- Diabetes
- Drugs -- Side effects
- Drugs -- Testing
- Internal medicine
- Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th Century
- Internists
- Lavietes, Paul Harold, 1907-1990
- Medicine
- Medicine -- Research
- Metabolism
- Metabolism -- Disorders
- Pharmaceutical industry -- United States
- Physicians
- Pregnancy -- Complications
- Products liability -- Drugs -- United States
- Public health -- United States
- Subversive activities -- United States -- History -- 20th Century
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
- Yale University -- Faculty
- Yale University -- Students
- Yale University. School of Medicine
- Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. Class of 1927
- Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Title
- Guide to the Paul Harold Lavietes Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Date
- July 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Contact:
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Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
(203) 432-1735
(203) 432-7441 (Fax)
beinecke.library@yale.edu
Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511