Paul Bancroft Interview

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Paul Bancroft Interview

Dr. Bancroft starts his interview detailing the faculty on campus while he was a student and teaching bacteriology. He describes being required to draw and paint tissue samples with watercolors. He mentions his internship in Minnesota and starting his pediatric practice in Lincoln, Nebraska, afterward. The majority of Bancroft’s interview discusses what he views are the major changes to the field of pediatrics including a rigid attitude toward child rearing, male pediatricians, a shift to a permissive style of parenting and childhood diseases and mortality.

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title: Paul Bancroft Interview

creator: Menolascino, Frank

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description: Paul Martin Bancroft was born in 1901 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1924 and entered UNMC in 1925. He took graduate courses and taught bacteriology in the pathology department, graduating with the class of 1935. He did a rotating internship in Minnestoa in pediatrics before starting his own pediatric practice in Lincoln, Nebraska. Bancroft is one of the very first cases on record known to have recovered from coccydeoides granuloma, a fungal disease he caught in the laboratory while studying as a graduate student.

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date: 1980

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identifier: AV-002-002-01

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