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The following collection materials were used during the class session in the Gates Classroom, Sterling Memorial Library. Use the links in each description below to access archival collection finding aids in Archives at Yale or to request general collection books.
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Overview: This collection includes the Dean of the Yale School of Medicine's correspondence and copies of minutes and reports concerning New Haven Hospital, the New Haven Dispensary, and Grace-New Haven Community Hospital; broadsides and brochures concerning these institutions and Yale-New Haven Hospital; miscellaneous materials including historical accounts of the hospital; and newspaper clippings.
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Overview: The bulk of the collection consists of pamphlets, brochures, and printed materials related to efforts to legalize various forms of birth control in Connecticut and the United States. These materials include publications from several organizations founded and/or led by Margaret Sanger, who coined the term "birth control" and is credited with starting the birth control movement in the United States. The collection also includes publications from the1920s related to the Eugenics movement in the United States promoting sterilization for social improvement and a small amount of material related to women's health during pregnancy.
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Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and subject files which document Leslie A. Falk's career as area medical administrator for the United Mine Workers Health and Welfare Fund, teacher at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Meharry Medical College, medical and social researcher, and medical activist. The papers highlight Falk's interests in community health services, occupational health and safety, the delivery of medical care in other countries, and African-American medical history. The papers capture the impact that mentor Henry E. Sigerist, a medical historian, and advocate for nationalized health care, had on Falk's career and values. Falk was a proponent for the development of community-based health care in rural and impoverished areas of the United States.
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Overview: Correspondence, consultations, surveys, writings, printed material, and other papers of Edwin Richard Weinerman. Material primarily reflects Weinerman's interest in public health and deals with his activities both as a consultant and administrator with various public and private health care organizations, including the U. S. Public Health Service, Permanente Health Plan, American Public Health Association, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital. A significant part of the collection also relates to Weinerman's social and political activities, especially his concern over dangers of air pollution, nuclear warfare and radiation poisoning, and his opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Levering Act which required loyalty oaths as a condition for medical licensure. The papers also include notebooks and course papers from his own studies at Harvard and New York University (1945-1948) as well as teaching materials from the University of California. His professional program is documented in grant applications (1963-1972), two speeches and letters written in preparation for his trip abroad in 1970, collected works (articles), and curriculum vitae. Also in the papers are letters of condolence and a transcript and audio tapes of the memorial service at Yale University following his death in 1970.
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Overview: The collection comprises records of the Greater New Haven Coalition for People, a grassroots organization that advocates for lower and middle income residents of New Haven, Connecticut. Materials include correspondence, financial and fundraising records, files on topics and events that the Coalition worked on, and posters and protest signs. Materials date from 1981 to 2014. Much of the collection concerns different issues the Coalition focused on,including the removal of bus stops from the City of New Haven, medical care for the low-income and uninsured in the local hospitals, conditions of public housing, and programs like the West Rock Youth Leadership Program and Tenants Against Drugs Dammit!
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Overview: The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, and subject and administrative files documenting the activities of various deans and administrative personnel of the Yale School of Nursing. Topics include finance, faculty, admissions, committees, policy and curriculum, research and public service, national and international associations, visitors, and affiliated universities and hospitals. Included are the records of deans Annie Warburton Goodrich, Effie Taylor, Elizabeth Torrey, Margaret G. Arnstein, and Donna Diers.
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Overview: The records consist of the administrative records of the Yale-New Haven Hospital from the office of the Executive Director. A large part of the records are from the office of Albert W. Snoke who was executive Director from 1946-1968. The records cover the history of the hospital as a whole and its individual departments, its relations with Yale University, the city of New Haven, the state of Connecticut, and general issues such as health care delivery,voluntary health organizations, internships, family planning, and establishment of regional programs. Included are correspondence, oral histories, reports, clippings, memoranda, minutes of meetings, legal and financial records, and speeches.
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Overview: The papers document the career of Yale School of Nursing professor, Nurse-Midwifery Specialty, Helen Varney Burst. The bulk of the materials are evenly divided between notes, drafts and final texts of speeches given by Varney Burst, 1970-2015, mainly on the history or future of midwifery, and material documenting her work on the Special Commission on Infant Health in New Haven, primarily 1987-1995. There are also small amounts of material on the short-lived Family Childbirth Center of New Haven, 1981-1986, family planning, 1967-1970, historical information on the Rooming-In program at Grace-New Haven Hospital, 1947-1962, biographical information on Varney Burst and other aspects of nurse-midwifery.
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Overview: The collection documents Michael L. Charney's student activism while attending the Yale School of Medicine from 1968-1972. The collection also includes materials documenting Charney witnessing and reporting arson of a student protest structure on the Beinecke plaza in 1988. Materials include newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, documents, correspondence, ephemera, and posters.
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Overview: The records consist of reports, meeting minutes, organizational files, and printed material documenting the founding and work of the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene.
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Overview: The Connecticut Mental Health Center records consist of administrative files, scrapbook contents and speeches.
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Overview: The papers comprise biographical information of Philip M. and Lorna Sarrel; files documenting the establishment of the Young Mothers Program (YMP) at Yale-New Haven Hospital, an outgrowth of the teenage pregnancy clinic; the inclusion of sex education courses in curricula for a New Haven high school and Yale undergraduate and medical students; audiotapes of Sarrel's lectures; films, mostly commercially produced, depicting aspects of human sexuality for the training of college students and medical personnel; and related writings by Sarrel and others.
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Overview: The Family Counseling of Greater New Haven, Inc. (FCGNH) records document the administrative history of a local social welfare agency from 1881 to 2000. The early organization began as a philanthropic society but became a professional social service agency. In contrast to other social service agencies in other states, prominent male community leaders formed and ran the FCGNH, but as it shifted to a professional social service agency in the 1920s,the board hired female social workers and home visitors. The professionalization of social work grew out of the settlement house movement and was institutionalized at the national level when Congress established the Children's Bureau, in the Department of Labor, to address maternal and children's health. Together, the settlement house movement and the Children's Bureau promoted social work through new professional programs at the university level, which in turn, shaped the social service mission of the FCGNH. The records of the FCGNH provide a regional example of the success of the Children's Bureau to promote local state agencies committed to child and family welfare during the Progressive Era and post war years. At the local level, the records document the hardships of social change, poverty, and family breakdown caused by industrialization, immigration, economics, and war. These records further reveal the difficulties the organization faced in maintaining welfare-based services with limited resources.
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Overview: The Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) was founded in 1968 as Los Hermanos and changed its name to United Mexican American Students (UMAS) when Yale College started admitting women in 1969. Later in 1969, the group changed their name to its current form. The records consist of conference materials documenting the Yale Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), African American Studies, the Black Student Alliance at Yale, and a study documenting conferences on AIDS and HIV infections.
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Overview: The records consist of subject files maintained by the deans of Undergraduate Affairs and Student Affairs of Yale College, concerning the administration of undergraduate student life, student organizations, orientation programs, athletics, and student housing.
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