Quentin Young Papers 1937-2002

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Quentin Young Papers 1937-2002

The Quentin Young papers consist of 47 boxes, and contain a wide variety of papers relating to Young's personal life and the organizations he was affiliated with. Since the 1960's, Young has been an advocate for progressive policy reform in medicine, having founded both the Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, and having served as the Chairman for Cook County Hospital. Young graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School in 1948, and resides in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood.

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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group (Chicago, Ill.)

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Young, Quentin, 1923-

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Dr. Quentin D. Young is a physician and a lifelong advocate and activist for social justice in healthcare policy. He was born in 1923 in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois to Abe and Sarah Young and is a national figure in civil rights work, health care reform, anti-war protests, and many other liberal causes, working tirelessly to promote progressive causes for more than six decades. Young was the personal physician to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, former May...

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School

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The Northwestern University Medical School began as the medical department of Lind University (later Lake Forest University) in 1859, located at Randolph and Market Streets in Chicago. In 1864, the medical department became an independent school, the Chicago Medical College, housed in a building at 22nd and State Streets. The founder of the College, Nathan Smith Davis, was an innovator in medical education who wanted to establish a three-year program that went beyond the traditional...

Cook County Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)

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