Identity elements
レファレンスコード
記述レベル
コレクション
タイトル
Hilde Bruch, MD papers
日付
- 1928-1984 (作成)
規模
56 cubic feet (92 boxes)
作成者名
履歴
Hilde Bruch was born in Dulken, Germany on March 11, 1904; her family was Jewish. An uncle encouraged her to study medicine and she graduated from Albert Ludwig University with a doctorate in 1929. She took academic and research positions with the University of Kiel and then the University of Leipzig, but left academia for private pediatric practice in 1932 because of rising anti-Semitism. She had already begun a career in pediatric physiology before she left Germany in 1933 after Hitler came into power. She then spent a year in England, where she worked at the East End Maternity Hospital, which served a Jewish community in an impoverished part of London. She moved to the United States in 1934 and worked at the Babies’ Hospital at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. She obtained her American medical license in 1935 and, in 1937, began research on childhood obesity, the beginning of her career studying eating disorders. She became an American citizen in 1940.
From 1941 to 1943 Bruch studied psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before returning to New York to open her own psychiatric practice and teach at Columbia University. She took a position in psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1964 and remained in Houston for the rest of her life. She died on December 15, 1984.
Content and structure elements
範囲と内容
The Hilde Bruch, MD papers contains reprints, books, office files, patient records. The early gift of books and reprints, and the posthumous donation of books and papers have been integrated into the larger group of office records, making the total size of the collection 56 cubic feet. The processor of the papers has for the most part left Dr. Bruch's own arrangement intact. The arrangement includes office files, patient records dating from the 1940's, correspondence from colleagues as well as hundreds of letters from lay persons acquainted with Dr. Bruch's work on eating disorders. There are reprints from colleagues, correspondence with publishers, family and friends. Also included is same correspondence from Dr. Bruch's family in Germany and the Netherlands, and memorabilia from her long career in America. Dr. Bruch's papers offer important insights into psychiatric trends in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly into the treatment of psycho-social illness. They also detail in the life history of an individual, the personal and cultural crises precipitated by exile from Nazi Germany, and the struggle of women for greater participation in science and medicine, both significant phenomena in the history of this century. The collection equals 56 cubic feet consisting of 84 boxes.
編成システム
The series which comprise the collection are listed below. Separate descriptions for each follow.
I. BIOGRAPHY
II. TEACHING CAREER
III. UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
IV. PUBLICATIONS
V. GENERAL OFFICE FILES
VI. PATIENT FILES
VII. LETTERS
VIII. ANOREXIA AND OBESITY
IX. MISCELLANEOUS
X. HARRY STACK SULLIVAN
Conditions of access and use elements
アクセスの条件
Open for research. Patient files are restricted, and consultation with an archivist is required.
物理的アクセス
Materials are in good condition.
Technical access
複製の条件
Copyright restrictions may apply. Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the repository, McGovern Historical Center.
Languages of the material
- 英語
- ドイツ語
資料に用いられている文字
言語とスクリプトの注記
検索手段
A finding aid for this collection is available.
Generated finding aid
取得と評価・選別に関する項目
収蔵状況の経緯
Deed-4
直接の取得先
Dr. Hilde Bruch presented her papers to the McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center over a period of years; one portion, 213 reprints and nine books arrived in 1978. This collection was greatly augmented and expanded in 1983 when Dr. Bruch closed her office and gave her office files and patient records to the HRC. After her death in December 1984, her family completed the collection with their donation of some of books, reprints and journals from, her home.
評価選別、廃棄、スケジュールに関する情報
追加資料
No accruals are expected for this collection.
関連資料エレメント
原本の存在と所在
コピーの存在と所在
関連するアーカイブズ資料
関連の記述
出版物の注記
MS 007 Hilde Bruch papers were consulted in the creation of her Handbook of Texas entry: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bruch-brunhilde-hilde
Notes element
Specialized notes
- Citation: Hilde Bruch, MD papers; MS 007; John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. Please cite the box and folder numbers where appropriate.
- Processing information: In 2019-2020, photographs were pulled from IC 098 TMC Library Historical Photograph Collection and returned to the collection based on the donor, Hilde Bruch. The images were previously cataloged and housed in acid-free envelopes. At that time, a photo identification number (P-### for prints or N-### for negatives) was assigned to each photograph or group of photographs. The items were kept in the acid-free envelops from the previous processing. The descriptions provided on the catalog cards were written on the envelope and inventoried, noting the description, dimensions, and quantity. The descriptive information was encoded for each envelope along with the color and quantity of photographs ([in square brackets]) in each envelope. When available, the photographer, agency, studio, or department is credited within the item description.
- Processing information: The processor of the papers has for the most part left Dr. Bruch's own arrangement intact.
- Processing information: The collection was inventoried again in 2020 based on the original arrangement. Boxes were re-numbered throughout the collection across series. Folders were numbered within each box. Materials were consolidated to fill boxes, reducing the total number of boxes for the collections.
別の識別子
TARO
Description control element
ルールまたは規則
Sources used
アーキビストの注記
Finding Aid prepared by Randy Sparks with Foreword by Shervert H. Frazier, MD and Introduction by Theodore Lidz, MD 1985.
アーキビストの注記
Inventory revised by Gina Leonard, 2020.