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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Department of Social Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40472, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from department October 2016 (RT 20161018.1).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Carson Fish, November 2016

Encoded by: Gergana Abernathy, November 2016

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Medical education--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Community Medicine and Hospital Administration.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Social Medicine.

The Department of Social Medicine, an academic department within the School of Medicine, was founded in 1978 as the Department of Community Medicine and Hospital Administration. It was renamed the Department of Social Medicine in 1980. The department's classes, research, and service focus on the social and cultural factors influencing health and medicine.

This collection includes administrative records of the Department of Social Medicine, records related to grant projects, and records documenting department committees and events.