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Personal Papers and Manuscripts
EMANUEL FRIEDMAN.
Papers, 1953-1989.
6.6 cubic feet (8 records cartons and 1 document box)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Dr. Emanuel A. Friedman was born in Brooklyn on June 9, 1926. He earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1947, and an M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) of Columbia University in 1951. Between 1951 and 1957, he was an intern and resident at Sloane Hospital for Women of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, and Francis Delafield Hospital.
As a resident at Sloane Hospital in 1953, he studied the graphical analysis of labor progression. His research generated the "Friedman curve," an S-shaped curve relating cervical dilation to the duration of labor. For this major work in the new field of cervimetry, he earned a Sci. D. degree from P&S in 1959. Between 1957 and 1963, he rose from Instructor to Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at P&S. In 1963, he became Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Chicago Medical School and at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. From 1969 to 1990, he was Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School (and Chairman of the Department between 1971 and 1976), and Obstetrician-Gynecologist-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Friedman was long involved with the National Collaborative Perinatal Project (NCPP), a major government-funded study of 64,000 births. Starting as the obstetric coordinator of the field unit at Columbia University in 1957, Dr. Friedman collected and analyzed NCPP data and published books derived from this research into the 1980s. Throughout his career, Dr. Friedman wrote extensively-- a bibliography of his works lists over 500 publications. Following his retirement from Harvard, Dr. Friedman returned to New York City. He continues to teach at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
SCOPE AND CONTENT:
The Emanuel Friedman Papers consist largely of bound volumes of writings, project studies, and translations. The collection also includes a research notebook, his doctoral thesis, case reports, a bound work signed to him by the author, and microfilms of project data. These papers document the long career and prolific output of a leading obstetrician-gynecologist over more than 35 years, and provide an overview of the development of modern research in obstetrics and gynecology.
The earliest materials in the collection are those relating to Dr. Friedman's career at Sloane Hospital for Women. The research notebook from 1953 is of particular interest, as it documents the raw data Dr. Friedman used to develop the graphic analysis of labor. This work is explained fully in his 1959 Sci. D. thesis on cervimetry. From this period is also an inscribed copy of Dr. Albert Plentl's work investigating the drug Sparteine.
The bound volumes have been arranged into four groups: "Collected Manuscripts," book manuscripts, NCPP studies, and translations. "Collected Manuscripts" contains typescripts of published articles, as well as some unpublished talks and presentations. The volumes are arranged chronologically, and each contains a table of contents. Book manuscripts consist of typescripts of books Dr. Friedman wrote or edited, alone or with others. Manuscripts of books in the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library are followed by their call numbers. The NCPP materials include typescripts of published studies as well as project data and administrative documents in bound volumes. The translations are English language versions of German obstetrical and surgical texts edited and translated by Dr. Friedman and his wife, E. Judith Friedman. For the book manuscripts and NCPP studies, the bound volumes are arranged alphabetically by title. The translations are arranged alphabetically by author.
There are 57 rolls of microfilm in the Friedman Papers, and virtually all relate to the NCPP project. The microfilms include statistical data from Presbyterian Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital, and large quantities of NCPP project data, including data related to Dr. Rudolf Vollman's research on the menstrual cycle.
ACCESS:
Patient records from the research notebook are open only under the terms of Archives and Special Collections Access Policy to Records Containing Protected Health Information.
Boxes 2-9 are stored off-site and take 1-2 days to retrieve. Researchers must call in advance to use the collection.
PROVENANCE:
Gift of Dr. Emanuel Friedman, 2000 (accession no. 2000.05.31)
BOX LIST
Box 1 - Early Work at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Notebook, research in the graphical analysis of labor, Sloane Hospital, 1953
Case Reports, Presbyterian Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1960
"Cervimetry: A Study of the Parturient Cervix Uteri with Particular Reference to Dilation," doctoral thesis, 1959
"Clinical Evaluation of Sparteine in Obstetrics" by Dr. Albert A. Plentl, 1957, signed by Plentl to Friedman
Boxes 2 and 3 -- Collected Manuscripts, 1953-89 (14 volumes)
Box 4 -- Book Manuscripts
Biological Principles and Modern Practice of Obstetrics, 14th edition from the original text of Joseph B. DeLee, co-author with J.P. Greenhill, 1973 (2 vols.) (HSL: RG101 G83 1974)
Gynecological Decision Making, editor, 1983 (HSL: RG103 G99 1983)
Gynecological Decision Making, co-editor, 2nd edition, 1988 (2 vols.) (HSL: RG103 G99 1988 Q)
Box 5 - Book Manuscripts
Labor: Clinical Evaluation and Management, 1966 (HSL: RG651 F91 1967)
Labor: Clinical Evaluation and Management, 2nd edition, 1977 (HSL: RG651 F91 1978)
Legal Principles and Practice in Obstetrics and Gynecology, co-editor, n.d.
Lymphatic System of Female Genitalia: Morphologic Basis of Oncologic Diagnosis and Therapy, co-author with Albert A. Plentl, 1971
Obstetrical Decision Making, editor, 1982 (HSL: RG527 Ob7 1982)
Box 6 - Book Manuscripts
Obstetrical Decision Making, co-editor, 1987 (2 vols.) (HSL: RG527 Ob7 1987 Q)
Rh-Isoimmunization and Erythroblastosis Fetalis, co-editor, 1969 (HSL: RJ270 R34 1969)
Uterine Physiology, co-editor, 1978
Box 7 - National Collaborative Perinatal Project (NCPP), Perinatal Branch of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Blood Pressure, Edema and Proteinuria in Pregnancy, 1971
Labor and Delivery Analysis Reports, co-author with Raymond K. Neff, 1978-80
Labor and Delivery: Impact on Offspring, co-author with Raymond K. Neff, 1987, (3 vols.) (HSL: RG652 .F74 1987)
Pregnancy Hypertension: A Systematic Evaluation of Clinical Diagnostic Criteria, 1977 (HSL: RG580.H9 F91 1977)
Toxemia Analysis Reports, co-author with Raymond K. Neff, 1974-76
Box 8 - Translations with E. Judith Friedman
Burghardt, Erich, Early Histological Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer, 1972 (HSL: RC280 U8 B87 1973)
Kaser, O., Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery, 2nd English edition, 1985 (2 volumes) (HSL: RG104 K152 1985 Q)
Martius, Gerhard, Gynecologic Surgery, 1981
Martius, Gerhard, Operative Obstetrics: Indications and Techniques, 1978 (HSL: RG725 M36 1980)
Mestwerdt, G., Atlas of Colposcopy, 5th edition, 1981 (HSL: RG107.5 C6 At6 1981 Q)
Reiffenstuhl, Gunther and Platzer, Werner, Atlas of Vaginal Surgery Technique and Surgical Anatomy, 1974 (HSL: RG104 R27 1975 Q)
Box 9 - Microfilms
57 rolls of microfilm- see rolls for individual titles.
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