Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-111
Abstract
The Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children was founded in 1966, to bring injured and orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children to the United States for medical treatment. Some children were placed in foster homes or were permanent adopted. The organizers worked in cooperation with Welcome House in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and with other organizations. The group disbanded in October 1969.
Dates:
1966-1969
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Physicians for Social Responsibility Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-175
Overview
Founded in 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a group of physicians. PSR is an organization, and association of doctors concerned with the challenge of the nuclear age: "man's scientific knowledge now provides an unprecedented opportunity for medical and social advance; yet thermonuclear war poses a supreme threat to the health and survival of mankind." Since prevention is the only effective remedy, and therapy, these physicians are attempting to explore a new area of preventive medicine:...
Dates:
1970-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Adoption -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Adoption -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Charities -- Vietnam 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Education -- Vietnam 1
- Intercountry adoption -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Refugees -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- Social medicine -- History -- Sources 1
- Social service -- Vietnam 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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