The Medical Follow-up Agency -- Copyright -- Preface -- Foreword -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Creating the Agency -- THE IDEA -- ORGANIZING A PLAN OF ACTION -- FINDING THE FUNDING -- 2 The Early Committee Years -- FOLLOW-UP STUDIES -- STARTING THE FOLLOW-UP AGENCY -- THE FIRST ROUND OF STUDIES -- IMPACT OF THE KOREAN WAR -- REVIEWING THE AGENCY'S PROGRESS -- 3 Changing Times -- NEW PROJECTS IN THE LATE 1950S -- TRANSITIONS IN PERSONNEL -- DECLINE OF THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS MEDICAL PROBLEMS -- NEW CORE FUNDS
COMMITTEE ON EPIDEMIOLOGY AND VETERANS FOLLOW-UP STUDIESTHE NEW COMMITTEE'S MISSION -- THE TWIN AND PRISONER OF WAR STUDIES MATURE -- THE AGENCY IN THE AGE OF THE GREAT SOCIETY AND ITS AFTERMATH -- VIETNAM AND THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION -- 4 Recent Decades -- THE FIRE IN SAINT LOUIS -- AT MID-DECADE -- THE ASSEMBLY OF LIFE SCIENCES -- SEYMOUR JABLON IN CHARGE -- WILLIAM PAGE'S INTERIM -- THE 1990S -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Medical Follow-up Agency Publication List, 1946�1996 -- 1946 -- 1949 -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955