Public health pioneer, criminologist, reformer, ethicist and humanitarian
By: Joel Fort ; with an introduction by Dorothy Smith Patterson. Interviews conducted by Caroline C. Crawford in 1991, 1992, and 1993. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Crawford, Caroline; Fort, Maria.; Patterson, Dorothy Smith.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1997
Subjects: Fort Help (Organization); Civil rights -- United States.; Physicians -- California -- Interviews.; Forensic psychiatry -- California.; Criminal liability -- California.; Legal ethics -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Conflict management -- United States.; Public health -- California.; California -- Officials and employees -- Political activity.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Benevolent and moral institutions and societies.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Early years in Ohio, 1929-1945; Ohio State University, University of Chicago, and medical school at Ohio State; early civil rights work; Center on Alcoholism (Alameda County) and the 1964 Supreme Court decision re public employees; campaigning for Congress in 1962; United Nations and World Health Organization assignments; teaching in the UC Berkeley Criminology Department; founding pioneer organizations in the 1960s and 1970s: Center for Special Problems, National Sex and Drug Forums, National Center for Solving Special Social and Health Problems (FORT HELP); participating in the Playboy panels; expert witness in the Manson, Hearst, Corona, Robert Alton Harris and other cases from the 1970s to the 1990s; teaching ethics and conflict resolution. Includes an interview with Maria Fort.