Record Source: University of Pennsylvania / Subject: Medicine / People: Boas, Ernst P. (Ernst Philip) / Language: English - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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Abstract:: Administrative records, correspondence, and publications documenting the activities and policy concerns of the Physicians Forum, an organization of progressive doctors founded by Ernst P. Boas in New York City. Its advocacy on the national level encompassed numerous health issues, with particular focus on health insurance, discrimination in medicine, and resistance to McCarthyism.

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