Day: November 12, 2009

November 19th, Faculty Club
12:00 noon

Led by Tom Debley

The final Bancroft Round Table of the Fall Semester will take place on Thursday, November 19, at noon in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club. Tom Debley, author of The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield: The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care (The Permanente Press, 2009) and Director of Heritage Resources at Kaiser Permanente will present a talk entitled " Disrupting the Status Quo: The Story of Dr. Sidney Garfield."

The innovations of Dr. Sidney Garfield, physician co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, have been raising the eyebrows, (and sometimes the hair) of traditionalists since the 1930s. Less known than co-founder, Henry J. Kaiser, this son of Russian immigrants became a major leader of twentieth-century American medicine. The Henry J. Kaiser Papers and related collections at The Bancroft Library enriched the preparation of this first-ever biography of Sidney Garfield.

Bancroft’s enormous collections of Kaiser Manuscripts offer windows for insights into many dimensions of modern history. They are among our most heavily used of our collections. Discussion of innovative methods of health care could not be timelier. We invite the campus community to join us for this look at the origins of a health care system that remains central to California’s health care today. Bancroft Round Tables aim to showcase the varied resources of The Bancroft Library.