Eva J. Salber papers, 1937-1990

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Summary

Creator:
Salber, Eva J.
Extent:
17.1 Linear Feet
circa 12,930 Items
Language:
English.
Collection ID:
RL.01130

Background

Scope and content:

The Salber Papers span the years 1937 to 1990, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1967 to 1990. The collection contains correspondence; financial papers; writings and speeches; clippings; photographs, many by Dominic D'Eustachio; reports; minutes; scrapbooks; training manuals; student papers; printed material; and lecture notes chiefly relating to Salber's publications, teaching career, and work as a community health physician. Publications highlighted include Caring and Curing(New York, N.Y., 1975) ; Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead (Durham, N.C., 1983) , containing interviews with the rural elderly in Durham County, N.C.; and The Mind is Not the Heart(Durham, N.C., 1989) . Her work in the community health field is documented primarily in her writings, the papers about the Martha M. Eliot Family Health Center, and the Health Facilitator Program, which was administered through the Duke University Medical Center Department of Community and Family Medicine. Outgrowths of the Health Facilitator Program are featured in the information about the Health and Human Services Program of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Other topics include smoking research among young people, teacher and student relationships, and the financing of community health service projects. The collection contains few personal papers and little information about Salber prior to 1967. Explanatory notes by Salber scattered throughout the collection offer insights rarely available in manuscript collections.

Salber's work as a community health physician is reflected primarily in the Writings and Speeches Series, Martha M. Eliot Family Health Center Series, and Duke University Medical Center Series. The Health Facilitator Program represented in the Duke University Medical Center Series is well described. One of its unique features was to identify lay persons within a community to aid health professionals in their work. Serving as a paradigm for other programs, there is data about some of them in the Health Facilitator Program Outgrowths Series.

The collection contains extensive information about Salber's work Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead, including interviews on audiocassettes, typed transcripts of many interviews, photographs of some of the persons interviewed, as well as correspondence and reviews pertaining to the book's publication. Information regarding this publication as well as others are found in the Writings and Speeches Series. Information relating to Salber's teaching is found chiefly in the Teaching Files Series and the Student Files Series. Papers concerning smoking research are found in the Project Files Series, while those respecting the financing of community health service projects are found in the Financial Papers: Funding Series.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1916, Jan. 5
Born, Capetown, South Africa
1938
M.B., Ch.B., University of Capetown
1939, Nov. 1
Married Harry T. Phillips
1956
Moved to United States (naturalized in 1961)
1957-1958
Milton Research Associate in Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.;
Fellow in Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
1958-1967
Assistant Physician in Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
1961-1967
Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology, Harvarpd School of Public Health
1966-1967
Scholar, Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study
1967-1969
Director, Martha M. Eliot Family Health Center, Boston, Mass. Associate in Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
1967-1970
Lecturer in Pediatrics, Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care, Boston, Mass.
1969-1970
Senior Research Associate, Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care
1971-1973
Fellow, Royal Society of Health
1972
Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Director, Community Health Models, Duke University Medical Center
1972-1982
Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University Medical Center
1975
Research Associate, Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina
1980
Senior International Fellow, Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health
1982-
Professor Emeritus, Duke University
1990, Nov. 11
Died

Published books include: Caring and Curing: Community Participation in Health Services (1975); Community Health Education: The Lay Advisor Approach (1977); Services to the Elderly in England (1980); Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead: Voices of Rural Elderly (1983) and The Mind is Not the Heart: Recollections of a Woman Physician (1989). Salber conducted research in the areas of epidemiology (especially smoking in schoolchildren and breast cancer) and the utilization of medical care services.

Acquisition information:
The papers of Eva J. Salber (1937-1990) were donated to the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library from 1989-1991 by Eva J. Salber and Harry T. Phillips.
Processing information:

Processed by: Janie Morris, Assisted by: Denise Dolan

Completed August 7, 1992

Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller

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The copyright interests in the Eva J. Salber papers have not been transferred to Duke University. For further information, see the section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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