204 results for: Medicine and Health Care
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Hing Chinn with display of Chinese herbs at his store, Seattle, July 1981
At the time this photo was taken, Hing Chinn was a senior partner in Kue Hing Co., a store in Seattle's Chinatown International District specializing in Chinese herbs. In this photo, Chinn shows off his large selection of herbs in jars and drawers at the store. As of 2017, Kue Hing Co. Chinese Herbs & Specialists is still in business…
ID Number:2000.107.036.11.03
Date:1981
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Army veterans at meeting to save the Public Health Hospital, Seattle, April 24, 1981
Army veterans August Mac Key (left) and Henry Wallace are "in full support of the cause" to save the Public Health Hospital. They were among about 250 people who showed up to tell two Seattle congressmen, U. S. Representatives Mike Lowry (1939-2017) and Joel Pritchard (1925-1997), that the hospital should stay open. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, April 25,…
ID Number:2000.107.047.31.01
Date:1981
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Betty Shellman marching in support of health-care reform, Seattle, June 5, 1991
Betty Shellman, a member of the Puget Sound Council of Senior Citizens, joins more than 400 other protesters who convened at the office of King County Medical Blue Shield at 1800 Ninth Avenue as part of a nationwide health action week during which consumer and labor groups called attention to obstacles facing national health-care reform. Caption information source: The Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.02
Date:1991
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Woman in wheelchair entering a family planning clinic, Seattle, February 1980
Over the years, people with disabilities have found it difficult to access the range of help they need to live independently. The intersection of disability with sexuality and family planning was particularly challenging, as such needs of people with disabilities were often ignored. Seattle’s Family Planning and Disability Project tried to remedy this by reaching out directly to medical professionals,…
ID Number:2000.107.082.14.01
Date:1980
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Dr. William Hutchinson at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, March 1982
Dr. William Hutchinson (1909-1997) was a cancer surgeon and the founder of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Hutchinson believed that research rather than surgery would ultimately provide the answer to fighting cancer, and he fought to establish a cancer research center in Seattle. In 1956, he helped found the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, which studied cancer, heart…
ID Number:2000.107.095.02.01
Date:1982
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Rikuko Tanaka being examined by Dr. Michio Yamakido, Seattle, May 23, 1981
In this image, Rikuko Tanaka is examined by Dr. Michio Yamakido at the Public Health Service Hospital in Seattle. Tanaka was a survivor of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. This exam was part of a study conducted by the Japanese government which aimed to keep track of the health of atom bomb survivors living in the US…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.07
Date:1981
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Hazel McKinney on the Shoalwater Bay reservation, March 10, 1993
At the time this photograph was taken, Hazel McKinney, aged 77, was the only person over 70 among the 150 members of Washington state’s Shoalwater Bay tribe. A former tribal health advocate, she actively protested the tribe’s difficulties having to use the Indian Health Service (IHS) clinic on the Quinault reservation, over eighty miles away over back roads. In addition…
ID Number:2000.107.122.34.01
Date:1993
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Infirmary at McNeil Island Penitentiary, March 1971
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.17.04
Date:1971
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Thien Nguyen in his lab at UW, Seattle, October 2, 1991
Thien Nguyen took his first course - calculus - at the University of Washington when only eight years old, and graduated at age 15 with a degree in bioengineering. He then entered the university’s highly selective MD/PhD program that combines medical practice with scientific research. After received his MD and PhD degrees from UW, Nguyen completed a residency in Neurology…
ID Number:2000.107.132.16.05
Date:1991
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Antonio Sanchez at Sea Mar Community Health Center, Seattle, February 5, 1980
Sea Mar Community Health Centers was organized by a group of Latino community leaders and health activists who wanted to develop a comprehensive health center for the Latino community in Seattle, with satellite clinics in rural communities in western Washington. They began in 1978 with one small clinic in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. As of 2022, SeaMar has…
ID Number:2000.107.159.33.01
Date:1980