Paul Harold Lavietes papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 1589

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

Lavietes, Paul Harold, 1907-1990

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

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1589

Additional Description

Overview

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.