Records, 1905-2003 (inclusive), 1972-1997 (bulk).

Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Health

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St 1869, c 420 established the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics, generally known as the State Board of Health. It was abolished by St 1879, c 291, which transferred its functions to the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. St 1886, c 101 renamed that body the State Board of Lunacy and Charity and reestablished the State Board of Health. The board was succeeded in turn by the State Department of Health (St 1914, c 792) amd the Department of Public Health (S...

Doress-Worters, Paula B. (Paula Brown)

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Pincus, Jane.

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Ditzion, Joan Sheingold,

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ASTM Committee F-4 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices. Task Force on Tampons.

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Hubbard, Ruth, 1924-....

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Biologist and feminist Ruth Hubbard was born in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 her family emigrated to the United States. She graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1944, Ph. D. 1950), and served at Harvard University as a research fellow (beginning in 1953), research associate (beginning in 1958), lecturer (beginning in 1968), and as professor (from 1974 until her retirement in 1990). She was the first woman to be awarded a tenured biology professorship at Harvard. Known for her work in the biochemis...

Mayerson, Charlotte, 1927-

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Diskin, Vilunya,

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Massachusetts Friends of Midwives

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Boston women's health book collective

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The Boston Women's Health Book Collective is a nonprofit, public interest women's health education, advocacy, and consulting organization which was formally established in 1972 and published Our Bodies, Ourselves in 1973. From the description of Subject files, 1970-1998. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83027952 The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a non-profit women's health education, advocacy and consulting organization, began in 1969 when a small group of ...

Isis-WICCE (Organization)

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United States. Food and Drug Administration

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The mission of the FDA History Office is to increase knowledge of the history, mission, and activities of the FDA and its predecessor, the Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The office provides perspective on current policy objectives and increases public understanding of FDA's purpose and function. In general, office activities concern research, documentation, consultation, and information. In 1968, James Harvey Young received a grant from the National Library of Medici...

Simon and Schuster Inc

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Simon and Schuster had been a publisher of English translations of Werfel's works in the 1920s and 1930s (by the time of this correspondence, those rights had been transferred to Viking Press). Richard Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster were the founders and heads of the company, which was based in New York City; they maintained a personal friendship with Werfel and Alma Mahler. Howe was an editor at Simon and Schuster. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Wer...

Hawley, Nancy S., 1947-

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Random House (Firm)

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Reproductive Rights National Network

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The Reproductive Rights National Network formed in 1978 in response to the nationwide abortion debate launched by Roe v. Wade. It eventually included about 50 feminist organizations and devoted itself to making reproductive choices available for all women. R2N2 campaigned for safe abortions; for the right of gay couples to adopt and raise children; and against the sterilization of poor or "unfit" mothers. It disbanded in 1984. From the description of Reproductive Rights National Netw...

Norsigian, Judy

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Hosken, Fran P., 1919-2006

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Franziska Porges Hosken earned a master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1944; she was among the first women graduates of the program. She subsequently worked as a product designer, journalist and adovate for women's health issues. From the description of Papers. ca. 1941-ca. 1980. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 680436928 Franziska Porges Hosken earned a master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (G...

ISIS (Organization)

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Whelan, Sally.

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Morgan, Pamela, 1957-

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Hyman, Jane.

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Rising Sun Feminist Health Alliance.

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Bell, Ruth M., 1919-

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Reproductive Health Matters.

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Swenson, Norma

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Wolhandler, Jill.

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Ford foundation

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Philanthropic organization established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford from profits of the Ford Motor Company. From the description of Grant files, [ca. 1936-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532303 ...

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation

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Rome, Esther R.

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Health Planning Council for Greater Boston

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Corea, Gena

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Women's health activist; Author. Gena Corea is the author of "The Hidden Malpractice"(1977), concerned with how women were treated in the medical profession as patients and professionals; "The Invisible Epidemic" (1992), about the effect of AIDS on women; "Man-made Women" (1987) on reproductive technologies and their effect on women; and "The Mother Machine" (1985), about the medical and scientific establishment's increasing control of the reproductive process. Corea is ...

Social Justice for Women.

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Amigas Latinas en Accion Pro-Salud.

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Berger, Pamela M.

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Women's Educational Center

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In 1970, Bread and Roses, a group of Socialist-Feminist women in Boston, Massachusetts, began searching for a building to house a center for women. In March 1971, Bread and Roses seized an unoccupied building, owned by Harvard University, on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Bread and Roses held the building for ten days, offering free classes and child care before they were forced out. Sympathetic individuals donated $5,000, and in June 1971, Bread and Roses bought a house in Cambridge. The Women's ...

Women's Community Health Center (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Seaman, Barbara

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Barbara Rosner Seaman (1935- ): feminist and author, (Oberlin, B.A., 1956) was a columnist and contributing editor at Ladies' Home Journal (1965-1969), child care and education editor at Family Circle (1970-1973), and author of articles and reviews in numerous newpapers and magazines. The author of The Doctors' Case Against the Pill, Free and Female, and Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones, she was cited for her part in seeing that appropriate written warnings to patients accompany each prescri...

Sanford, Wendy Coppedge, 1944-

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Isis International (Manila, Philippines)

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National Women's Health Network (U.S.)

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Women's health advocacy organization. Founded at the height of second wave feminism, the National Women's Health Network was an outgrowth of informal groups of women sharing their experiences. The idea for an organization that would enable women to influence health policy was hatched in the fall of 1974 by Barbara Seaman and Belita Cowan. The "Women's Health Lobby" (later called the National Women's Health Lobby Network, and finally the National Women's Health Network) w...

Hartmann, Betsy, 1951-....

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Women's State-wide Legislative Network of Massachusetts.

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Comunicacion Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina.

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MacMahon-Herrera, Elizabeth.

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