The HistoryMakers video oral history with S. Allen Counter.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 49 min., 51 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2005.258 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Counter, S. Allen, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Hayden, Robert C., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with S. Allen Counter |
| Portion of title | S. Allen Counter |
| Abstract | Neurophysiologist and ethnographer S. Allen Counter was born in 1944, in West Palm Beach, Florida. He earned his B.S. degree in science at Tennessee A & I University in Nashville; his Ph.D. degree from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio; post-doctoral work at Harvard University; and his D. M. S. degree from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Counter conducted extensive research on nerve and muscle physiology, auditory physiology and neurophysiological diagnosis of brain injuries in children in adults. In 1981, he was appointed professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. Counter also conducted extensive field research on African-American ethnography. On a mission to Greenland in 1986, he met the offspring of North Pole Explorers Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson, giving him co-equal status to Admiral Byrd. Counter also conducted research on Africans in South America. He was a founding director of the Harvard Foundation and passed away on July 12, 2017 at the age of 73. |
| Credits | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea. |
| Performer | Robert Hayden, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005 December 8. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2005.258 HistoryMakers |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |