BUBEN, Zdenka (b. 1895). Medical social worker.

Zdenka Buben Interview. Interviewed by Lola Selby. Date of interview: 3-30/31-87. 1 cassette tape (1 duplicate tape). Length of interview: undetermined. Transcript of interview: 25 pp. (1 copy of rough draft of interview).

Interview topics: Childhood in France and New York; education at UC, Berkeley; work in health services in Alameda; work with LA County health services; establishment of schools of social welfare in California; her education at University of Chicago; return to Los Angeles and work with LA County health services; structure of public health services in southern California in 1920s (?); eligibility requirements for county health care; coordination of county health services; private LA social health agencies; education at University of Chicago; reflections on social work career; work with tuberculosis control; USC School of Social Work; final reflections.

Additional Materials:

1 diskette of transcript of interview. List of questions for interview. Letter to Lillian Simpson from Florence Swindell re new medical social worker (11-12-30). Notes by Lola Selby re Buben interview. Handwritten list of activities (done by Buben?). Commemorative program for NASW awards dinner, 28 May 1964, Los Angeles, CA. Correspondence (2 letters) re awards to Zdenka Buben. Certificate of Award to Z. Buben from Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles, Health Division. 3 photographs of Zdenka Buben, ranging in size from 5 x 7 in. to 8.5 x 11.5 in. 1 photograph 7 ¼ x 5 in of Alameda City Health Center. 1 offprint of article: Zdenka Buben, "Tuberculosis Case Finding as Viewed by the Social Worker," Hospital Social Service 26 (1932): 286-90. Pacific Coast Journal of Nursing 28 (1932). Includes article by Zdenka Buben entitled "Case Finding in Tuberculosis." Acknowledgement of receipt of offprints of articles by Z. Buben from German research institutions. News article re Z. Buben and her accomplishments.