The collection is composed of the subject files kept by MCHR, dealing with medical, health, and other topics of interest to Committee staff and the clientele it served. These topics reflected political, as well as medical, orientations; for example, there is material on China, repression in Chile, strip mining and diseases of miners in Appalachia, and the situation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The arrangement of the papers illustrates the work of the Committee task forces, as there are folders on health care in prisons, medical aid to Indochina, and women's health. Much of the material consists of printed fliers and pamphlets, and newspaper clippings; very little organizational material or correspondence is present. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject.
