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 STUDIES -- THE 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 -- 1956 -- 1957 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- 1960 -- 1961 -- 1962 -- 1963 -- 1964 -- 1965 -- 1966 -- 1967 -- 1968 -- 1969 -- 1970 -- 1971 -- 1972 -- 1973 -- 1974 -- 1975 -- 1976 -- 1977 -- 1978 -- 1979 -- 1980 -- 1981 -- 1982 -- 1983 -- 1984 -- 1985 -- 1986 -- 1987 -- 1988 -- 1989 -- 1990 -- 1991 -- 1992 -- 1993 -- 1994 -- 1995 -- 1996 -- Index -- About the Authors.