Lectures to the Laity; Science Under Dictatorship; Part 5

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Series
Lectures to the Laity
Episode
Science Under Dictatorship
Segment
Part 5
Producing Organization
WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Contributing Organization
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip-be66968e3c9
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Description
Episode Description
This is the "one hundredth anniversary discourse of the New York Academy of Medicine." It is part of the fourteenth series of Lectures to the Laity. This lecture is titled "Science Under Dictatorship" and was delivered by Dr. Leo Alexander, the director of the Neurobiologic Unit Division of Psychiatric Research of the Boston State Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Harold Brown Keyes of the New York Academy of Medicine introduces the presiding chairman of the evening, the Honorable Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune. Dr. Alexander's address focuses on Nazi medical experimentation in concentration camps, euthanasia, and mass killings under the Nazis.
Series Description
"A series of lectures by outstanding authorities sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine. The lectures are given on a wide variety of subjects and meant to acquaint the public with medical progress and to enable it to understand the methods by which such progress in medicine and in science is effected and achieved. The lectures are given in the Academy's hall to a full audience and are published by the Columbia University Press both here and in England."--1948 Peabody Digest.
Broadcast Date
1948-12-23
Asset type
Episode
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:15:27.264
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Credits
Producing Organization: WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Speaker: Alexander, Leo
Speaker: Keyes, Harold Brown
AAPB Contributor Holdings
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia
Identifier: cpb-aacip-99ac752a113 (Filename)
Format: Grooved analog disc
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Citations
Chicago: “Lectures to the Laity; Science Under Dictatorship; Part 5,” 1948-12-23, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed January 15, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-be66968e3c9.
MLA: “Lectures to the Laity; Science Under Dictatorship; Part 5.” 1948-12-23. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. January 15, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-be66968e3c9>.
APA: Lectures to the Laity; Science Under Dictatorship; Part 5. Boston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-be66968e3c9