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An interview with Dr. James R. Hebert

Title
  1. An interview with Dr. James R. Hebert / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by James Briggs Murray.
Published by
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
Author
  1. Hebert, James R.

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Additional authors
  1. Murray, James Briggs
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
  1. 2 videodiscs (54 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Dr. Hebert talks about his life and work as a nutritional epidemiologist and theories about the origin and transmission of AIDS. Youth; education; work in India that was the subject of his master's thesis and Ph. D.; why he switched major to biology; describes trip around the world; why India was locale for his study; work in Uganda as UNICEF nutrition adviser; recommendations made to government of Uganda; reaction; results of work; how he became involved in Haiti project; investigation of connection between pig killing and AIDS in Haiti; questions about U.S. activity in Caribbean and their implications; theory of origin and transmission of AIDS; current approaches to AIDS research; worst case scenario of proposed theory; why gay men are seen as a risk group; availability of Angolan virus; situation in Belle Glade, Fla. and the outbreak of AIDS; theory that environmental factors cause AIDS; high percentage of African Americans with AIDS; connection between living conditions and AIDS; public association of AIDS with Haiti; transmission of AIDS; public misinterpretation of scientific findings and media attention; Haitian refugee question & AIDS issue; recommendation to viewers.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subject
  1. Epidemiologists > United States > Interviews
  2. Nutritionists > United States > Interviews
  3. AIDS (Disease) > Haiti
  4. African Americans > Diseases
  5. Uganda > Social conditions
  6. Filmed interviews
  7. Oral histories
  8. AIDS (Disease) > Environmental aspects
  9. Hebert, James R > Interviews
Genre/Form
  1. Interviews.
  2. Oral histories.
  3. Nonfiction films.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1324
Credits (note)
  1. Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.
Terms of use (note)
  1. Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  1. Dr. James R. Hebert is a nutritional epidemiologist.
Author
  1. Hebert, James R., interviewee.
Title
  1. An interview with Dr. James R. Hebert / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by James Briggs Murray.
Publisher
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. video
Type of carrier
  1. videodisc
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file DVD
Credits
  1. Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.
Event
  1. Recorded May 7, 1985. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
Terms of use
  1. Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography
  1. Dr. James R. Hebert is a nutritional epidemiologist.
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Added author
  1. Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1324
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