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Healthy San Francisco

WEBThe Golden Gate Restaurant Association strongly opposed Healthy San Francisco because it required employers to pay for health care, and that included restaurants. The …

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Public Health and Epidemics in late 19th/Early 20th Century San

WEBIn City of Plagues Susan Craddock covers the history of epidemic disease in San Francisco from about 1860-1940. Through most of the 19th century, before germ …

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Native American Health Center

WEBIn 1972, the Native American Health Center (NAHC) was opened in San Francisco on 56 Julian Avenue to provide accessible, culturally competent health services to Native …

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Displacement and Trauma: A Public Health Crisis

WEBIn addition to housing affordability, inadequate housing can have adverse effects on public health. Redevelopment, renovations, or conversions of residential property can result in …

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San Francisco’s Free Emergency Services: Gone and Forgotten

WEBThe one-story Park Emergency Aid Station built in 1902 served in that role until 1978, managing to continue as an ambulance station until 1991. The building is a remnant of a …

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AIDS and San Francisco’s Queer Community

WEBThese maps showing AIDS infection rates from a report done by the City of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health on HIV/AIDS in San Francisco between 1981 and 2000 …

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Haight Ashbury Free Clinic

WEBDr David E. Smith founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco in 1967. In the intervening years, the clinic has expanded to over 20 sites in the Bay Area, with 200 …

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Chinese Hospital: History and Foundation

WEBOne example was rebuilding the Tung Wah Dispensary into the Chinese Hospital. The hospital’s construction, which was completed in 1925, was largely funded by community …

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19th Century Medical Self-Help

WEBThe dispensary was to give free advice and medicine to indigent clinic patients; the hospital was to consist of twenty-five beds for use by both clinic and paying patients. The …

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Patient No More: 1977 Occupation of Federal Offices in San …

WEBBeginning April 5, 1977, a group of 100 people, many with disabilities, began a sit-in protest at San Francisco’s Federal Offices. Protesters hoped to force the final signature on …

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The Medical Industry

WEBMary's and UCSF were the two largest hospitals of their type west of the Mississippi (UCSF was the largest university hospital; St. Mary's, the largest religious hospital). Both were …

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Womens Liberation Changed Medicine

WEBThe first photograph on the first page in the very first movement-published issue of Our Bodies Ourselves shows women sitting on the floor in a circle, in a consciousness …

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Frigging (Mad) in the Rigging

WEBWinters was placed in an isolation cell at San Francisco General Hospital's psychiatric ward. Winters's free performance at the Balclutha capped a series of increasingly bizarre …

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Redevelopment Hits the Haight

WEBIn 1967 a symbiotic relationship between the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic and what is now known broadly as 409 House developed. 409 House attended to the physical and …

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San Francisco General Hospital

WEBNot only because it is a public institution, but because San Francisco voters approved a $887 million bond measure for the new hospital in 2008. This is being funded by …

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19th Century Medical Self-Help, Part II

WEBThe result was the Tung Wah Dispensary which opened in 1900 at 828 Sacramento Street. The dispensary, which employed both Western trained physicians and Chinese …

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University Mound Ladies Home

WEBAlthough Lick had the resources, the idea for the University Mound Ladies Home came from a woman named Mary Staples, whose lawyer husband assisted Lick in the writing of his …

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Chinese as Medical Scapegoats, 1870-1905

WEBThis analysis will focus on the Chinese as medical scapegoats, dealing specifically with the situation as it existed in San Francisco from the year 1870, when the city's Board of …

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Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour

WEBBayview/Hunter's Point has historically served as a dumping ground for nearly one-third of San Francisco’s toxic waste sites. This predominately low to very-low income community …

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