Regina Casper : An Oral History
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Regina Casper, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emerita, recounts her childhood in Germany during the Second World War, her education in post-war Germany, and her path to a career in medicine. She explains how she came to the United States with assistance from the Ventnor Foundation and describes her work in the Department of Physiology at U.C. Berkeley, at Michael Reese Hospital, associated with University of Chicago and at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in Chicago, where she started research and developed expertise in treating patients with affective disorders and with anorexia nervosa. Casper describes the transition from Chicago, Illinois to Stanford, California when her husband Gerhard Casper was appointed president of the university in 1992, recalling the devoted group of alumni that welcomed them and sharing anecdotes about Hoover House and her time as “First Lady” of Stanford. She also speaks about establishing the Women’s Wellness Clinic at Stanford and its work in treating women with postpartum depression and other affective disorders, and shares information about the artist Carl Heidenreich.
Description
| Type of resource | moving image, sound recording-nonmusical, text |
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| Extent | 2 video files; 2 audio files; 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | May 5, 2023 - May 25, 2023 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Casper, Regina C. | |
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| Creator | Casper, Regina C. | |
| Interviewer | Marine-Street, Natalie J. | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Casper, Regina C. |
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| Subject | Stanford University. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Subject | Eating disorders |
| Subject | Stanford Medicine. Women’s Wellness Research Center |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical Profile | Regina Casper is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She held professorships at the University of Illinois in Chicago (1971¬1984) and at the University of Chicago (1984–1992) before joining the faculty of the Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in 1992. At Stanford, she founded the Women’s Wellness Research Center and clinical program and served as its director from 1992 to 2008. |
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| Transcript |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xz385vs0768 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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