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Aging and the Carbon Imaginary

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life distinctions, what Povinelli calls geontology, in that aging is a property of non-living matter, but which extends to living matter through...
May 27, 2025
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Bri Matusovsky
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This Date in UCSF History: Abortion Activism Urged

April 27, 2022
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[Originally published on May 1, 1979.] Stating that “women will be the new target of an attempt to reconstruct society...
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Dr. Wachter Weighs In: To Mask or Not To Mask?

March 7, 2022
Janice Goh
Listen to our latest podcast episode: Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF’s Chair of the Department of Medicine, gained a vast twitter...
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UCSF Oral Medicine Clinic: HIV/AIDS Pioneers

January 24, 2022
Jessica Maldonado-Mendoza
In June of 1981, San Francisco saw the first cases of what eventually became known as HIV/AIDS. They were atypical...
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This Date in UCSF History: New Year's Resolution, Moderation

January 6, 2022
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[Originally published in Synapse on January 10, 2008.] For many people, ringing in the New Year is synonymous with setting...
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This Date in UCSF History: Haight-Ashbury: From ‘Free Love’ to ‘Speed Kills’

December 4, 2021
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on December 2, 1993.] David E. Smith, MD, founder and director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics...
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This Date in UCSF History: Doc Recalls Pre-Roe v. Wade Horrors

November 21, 2021
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on November 21, 1996.] Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to...
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This Date in UCSF History: Student AIDS Forum Connects Patients and Caregivers

November 14, 2021
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Originally published on November 15, 1990. Several prominent physicians who have devoted much of their working lives in recent years...
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This Date in UCSF History: Prepayment for Healthcare

September 26, 2021
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Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...
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This Date in UCSF History: Crisis Pregnancy Centers Push Anti-Choice Ideals

May 21, 2021
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 2006.] A young woman meaning to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic unwittingly entered...
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