1941

Charles Drew named Assistant Director of National Blood (bank) Program (i.e., medical director in charge of collecting blood for use by armed forces), though armed forces stipulated only white donors could be accepted (Wynes, 67). Opening of Tuskegee Infantile Paralysis Center, “a poor imitation of Warm Springs” (Mawdsley, 228). Harvard Medical School initiates course on “Treatment of Patients as Persons” (Barker, 167-168). Alfred Richards (chairman of U.S. Committee on Medical Research and Development) meets with executives of Merck, Lederle, Squibb, and Pfizer, conveying national interest in development of penicillin and making clear that sharing their results would not be an antitrust violation (Lax, 187; Macfarlane, 191).