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A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
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The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
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An on-line history of Dr. Benjamin Rush's efforts to fight yellow fever in America in the 1790s, by Bob Arnebeck, with documents from the period.
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Links to several on-line books published by the Army dealing with the history of epidemiology, preventative medicine and organization of the U.S. Army Medical Department and Medical Command
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An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century
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Official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. Sample issue and table of contents only. Full text requires subscription to Project Muse.
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A collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
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Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing
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Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.
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A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900
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Timeline of U.S. government work in Louisiana aimed at the treatment of leprosy, patient rehabilitation, and related training and education.
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Studies of the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis, originally published in 1890. The Hypertext Edition, with illustrations, presented by American Studies at Yale.
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An online version of Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit by Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D. printed in 1994 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Public Health Service.
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Includes three papers Dr. Morison wrote on smoking in Canadian children, 1960 through 1982.
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Recordings and transcripts of oral histories about the discovery and early investigations of this mysterious and devastating disease.
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The life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), with multimedia pages including the complete text of On the Communication of Cholera. Created by the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health.
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An academic study by Virginia Berridge of the history of public health in Britain since 1945, using smoking as a model to analyse changes in policy and attitude.
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Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798
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This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530.
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Includes exhibit information and photographs about public health in Tewksbury.
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On-line exhibits and videos of significant events to help people learn more about public health and the history of the PHS.
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Historical highlights.
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Personal and professional letters and documents written and received by Reed and his associates during their successful effort to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever
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Archives of manuscripts, images, and other materials on epidemics of past centuries and recent times, international health organizations, history of public health systems in various countries, and other topics related to WHO's mission.
