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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Meyer Friedman, relating to DNA history and to Friedmans medical research

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Correspondence with cardiologist Meyer (‘Mike’) Friedman, Director of the Meyer Friedman Institute, San Francisco, USA, relating chiefly to the writing of Friedman and Gerald Friedland’s book, Medicine’s ten greatest discoveries (Yale University Press, 1998), including an account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Also reference to a recent meeting between Friedman and Francis Crick, 1994, including Crick’s comments on James Watson, and a list of DNA-related items donated by Friedman to Yale School of Medicine.
Copies of published articles: Friedman and Ray Rosenman, ‘Association of specific overt behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings’, published in The Journal of The American Medical Association, Vol 169, Mar 1959 (introducing the hypothesis that impatient ‘Type A’ personalities are more at risk of heart attack); Friedman, ‘Diagnosis and treatment of type A behavior as a medical disorder’, published in Primary Cardiology, Feb 1989; Friedman, ‘Type A behavior: its diagnosis, cardiovascular relation and the effect of its modification on recurrence of coronary artery disease’, published in The American Journal of Cardiology, Vol 64, Aug 1989.
Slide of black and white photograph of Rosalind Franklin on holiday with friends, 1951, captioned ‘RF photo in Alps’, with covering letter from Friedman, 1990. Also letter from Friedman, Oct 1991, commenting on Wilkins’ draft autobiography, and enclosing copy letters to Friedman from publishers and literary agents.
Original file title ‘Meyer Friedman’.

Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Meyer Friedman, relating to DNA history and to Friedman’s medical research

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