Oral history interview with Stuart Copans

Oral history interview with Stuart Copans

Stuart Copans speaks his visits as a teenager to the nearby Bruderhof Community of Brothers in New Paltz, New York. He discusses graduating from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1969, visiting communes in the Bay area as part of a free university class, "Communes and Free Schools," and interning at the University of Vermont Medical School where he taught courses at the free university at UVM and connected with Vermont commune members in need of medical advice. He describes working with others, including Barbara Nolfi, to develop a medical training course and eventually publishing the "Home Health Handbook" in 1971. He comments on communal child rearing, drawing from his observations during visits to Israeli kibbutzim, and to Mullein Hill and Earthworks from 1969 to 1971. He describes finishing his medical education at the Dartmouth Medical School, establishing a practice in child and adolescent psychiatry in the Brattleboro, Vermont area, and concludes the interview with his perspectives on health care practices and community-based services in the United States.

14 December 2015

AudioFile1970s-51

MP3

Audio Files

Burlington (Vt.)

Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Rowell, Leslie

Copans, Stuart

Brattleboro (Vt.)

1 hr., 13 min., 23 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4209