...Maya C. Sandler Abstract This article explores the creation of the Over 60 Health Clinic in Berkeley, California, during the mid-1970s. Developed by a local network of the activist group Gray Panthers, the clinic offered screening and preventive care to elderly clients and was intended to serve...

... of capital and labor in and across contemporary settings. This essay traces the recent advent of the concept of “biological” or “clinical” labor, exploring (a) the utility of the concept for radical historians and (b) the utility of perspectives from labor history to the studies of “biocapital” found...

...Rachel Schreiber Somewhere around two and a half years in, I again broached the subject of volunteering to work in the clinic, and was told (finally!) there was a need for someone to staff the “community room” on Wednesday evenings during drop-in clinic hours. I gladly accepted. My tasks...

... petition the state for reforms, they mobilized to defend abortion clinics from the Far Right and taught themselves how to perform reproductive care at the grassroots level. They maintained that abortion restrictions were a form of state violence, especially as they corresponded with the structural violence...

.... Henry Tanner’s experimental performances of his fasts — set on a medical stage to be viewed both by his fellow doctors and by the general pub- lic — exploded both the scene of the clinical encounter and then contemporary methods for visualizing the human body, thus reformulating the manner in which...

... But it was the small clinic that the Nicolaita doctors founded in 1932 in Zacapu—another area plagued by the confrontations between revolutionary and Catholic peasants—that marked the beginning of a new system for rural health. Dr. Gómez Aguilar, who by then had recovered from...

... medical environment at Case Western Reserve University also amplifies this sense. Our medical school is one of the university’s strongest features and we are only blocks away from the famous Cleveland Clinic. As a result, the prestige RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 74: 173-1 83 1999 174...

... Angeles to try to put into practice their commitment to reforming American health care. During 1965 the group tested the sight and hearing of a thousand children enrolled in Head Start, staffed a new family planning clinic in East Los Angeles, and wrote...

... they have tended to look for those traits of medical character and quality of achievement which they respected and valued among their medical contemporaries- acuity of clinical perception and scientific observation, clarity of reason- ing, and depth of scientific insight-in short, skill, ability...

... and the AR designed to combat occupational disease. Some programs, like tuberculosis sanitar- iums, medical clinics, health insurance, sick-benefit funds, and public presentations about health and hygiene, obviously focused on treating workers. Others, like union...

... and work habits as a root cause of insanity did not change, in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the location of clinical in- tervention for different patient populations shifted. Prevention of mental illness became a key concern of psychiatry, and mental health...

... of tuberculosis in the black community. Both McBride and Bates discuss the establishment by Henry R. M. Landis of the Henry Phipps Institute, which opened several outpatient clinics that treated African Americans for tuberculosis. Although Landis was genuinely con...

... Majority, the Reapflush administration, and the rest of the united states. Although many lesbians have joined gay men in fighting AIDS, they are often dismayed by the anti-feminism they encounter. A case in point is Karen Petreros of the Lyon-Martin Clinic, a long-established lesbian health...

.... The clezr infer- ence was that a firm law-and-order administration had brought peace to a once troubled land. Such news must have come as a surprise to the directors of the twenty-five to thirty-odd abortion clinics that were firebombed last year. Those bombings seem to fit the FBI's 1982...

.... Rural electrification was the first basic service to arrive and later allowed schools and health clinics to function. In 1977, only 16.2 percent of rural homes had electricity; by 1984 the number had jumped to 57.1 per- cent, and by 2004 to 98.3 percent. This had a quick and considerable impact...

... in. In the late 1950s, a small group of clinicians interested in allergy and immunology, some of whom studied ”environmental disease,” christened theirs as a new field of specialty called ”clinical ecology.”zoA Tulane-educated physician named Morton Biskind became a principal medical advisor, not just...

... have without exception had the ef- fect of subverting our implicit assumptions and breaking our acquired cultural habits. In each of his major books, from Madness and Civilization (1961) and The Birth of the Clinic (1963), to The Ar- chaelogy of Knowledge (1966) and The Order of Things...

... held venereal clinics for women in the camps every Sunday at the Army Health Center—a veritable one-stop shop for Black female sexual maintenance. Clinic attendance was mandatory. American military police and army-employed Liberian guards “escorted” women between the camps and the Health Center...

... unprotected sex with another koti named Mohini, whom he has also picked up from a park. Jui discloses that Bikash has AIDS and she died because she had unprotected sex with him; Bikash is surprised by this revelation. Jui saves Mohini’s life and takes Bikash to a clinic for treatment. Koti ki atma...

...., in Brooklyn, was a mother of two sons, one of whom was also HIV-positive. A strong advocate for the inclusion of children in clinical trials, Awadallah helped establish Iris House, a nonprofit organization for HIV-positive women of color and their children in East Harlem. 26 Fighting against the lack...