Guide to the Jay M. Arena Papers, 1930-1995

Contains correspondence, subject files, reports, memoranda, notes regarding publications and pamphlets, and minutes pertaining to the American Academy of Pediatrics, of which Jay Arena was a member of the executive board and president.

Conference on the Susceptibility of the Fetus and Child to Chemical Pollutants, correspondence, 1968-1970, 6 folders

Senate Health, Education and Welfare Appropriations Committee, testimony and exhibits 1973

Contains materials pertaining to Arena's participation in various committees of the American Medical Association, particularly the committee working on peer review standards and guidelines for publication.

Contains clippings, correspondence, subject files, and memorabilia pertaining to the career of Wilburt C. Davison, personal relationship between Arena >and Davison, and authorship of the Davison of Duke biography. Correspondence dated 1959-1961 includes letters about Mildred Sherwood. The 1967 correspondence includes letters regarding James Gifford's dissertation on Duke Medical Center History.

Biographical materials and correspondence, 1932-1980

Includes materials pertaining to Reminiscences, edited by Jay Arena and John P. McGovern. Materials include outlines, correspondence, drafts of chapters, writings, clippings, and stipulations regarding use of Davison’s papers.

Contains legal documents, expert witness correspondence and testimony, and consultation correspondence regarding various aspects of poisons in use and poisoning cases. Materials in boxes 8 and 9 are ordered by defendant last name. Materials in box 10 have been merged with those items in box 9

Contains correspondence, reports, committee notes, and teaching materials pertaining to Duke Hospital North, Watts Hospital, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Over-the-Counter Drug Products Review Panel.

Contains general administrative notes and correspondence pertaining to the operation of the association and the establishment of regional poison control centers.

Contains correspondence, grants, reports, lecture materials, slides, and subject files pertaining to the operation and history of the Duke Poison Control Center. Subject files are mostly organized by poisoning agent.

Contains short writings, correspondence and subject files pertaining mostly to families and poisoning cases. Includes materials related to support and advocacy groups, insurance companies, and distribution of educational information.

Contains materials pertaining to television programming, legislation, and subjects of concern to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Significant to this series is the Action for Children's Television materials which document the portrayal of children and their interactions with poisons and medication on television.

Contains diaries, writings, clippings, correspondence, and manuscript materials pertaining to Arena's trip to China as a member of the Medical Delegation of the Council on Family Health. The purpose of the trip to China was to discover current practices in pediatric care, parental and school roles in health care for children, and to learn more about alternative treatments.

Correspondence and writings regarding acupuncture, child abuse, hypnosis, and other issues

Contains alphabetical subject files pertaining to poison control associations, corporations and safety packaging, and books and periodicals as vehicles for poison prevention education.

Contains correspondence, programs, budgets, photographs, and memorabilia of the Duke Children’s Classic golf tournaments (formerly known as Duke Celebrity Golf, Duke Celebrity Pro-Am, and the Children’s Cancer Classic) from 1974 to 1995.

Contains materials pertaining to various professional activities and personal interests of Jay Arena.

Agreement between School of Medicine and 1932 graduates (to serve two years in a hospital or laboratory approved by the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine), 1932

Reminiscence and correspondence, Student Life at a New Medical School Over One-Half Century Ago, 1992

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