U. S. Public Health Service Bicentennial:
On-line exhibits and videos of significant events to help people
learn more about public health and the history of the PHS.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/phs200/
International Network for the History of Public Health:
Supported by the European Association for the History of Medicine
and Health and cooperates with other institutions and foundations to
promote the study of the history of public health.
http://www.tema.liu.se/inhph/
CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL:
An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia
files related to public health.
http://phil.cdc.gov/
50 Years of International Public Health:
Articles of the World Health Organization's contributions to Public
Health over the past 50 years.
http://www.who.int/archives/who50/en/50years.htm
Images From the History of the Public Health Service:
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.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.html
John Snow and Cholera:
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.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
How the Other Half Lives:
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.
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra:
An essay on a pioneer in Public Health. Authored by Alan Kraut,
Ph.D., Professor of History, American University.
http://www.nih.gov/od/museum/exhibits/goldberger/full-text.html
Andrew Balfour of Khartoum:
The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs
and links are also included.
http://www.geocities.com/aaadeel/abofkrt.html
National Museum of Health and Medicine:
Located in Washington D.C. with online exhibits and schedule of
events. Learn the history of medicine and experience the
extraodinary.
http://130.14.42.05/
American History Sweatshop Exhibition:
A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the
National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/
Bulletin of the History of Medicine:
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.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/indexold.html
Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever:
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.
http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/fever1793.html
Buchan's Domestic Medicine:
An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide
for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century
http://www.americanrevolution.org/medicine.html
Life in Wisconsin Sanatoriums:
Short memoir of life in two Wisconsin tuberculosis sanatoriums in
1920s, Hickory Grove and Muirdale, with photos and history of each.
plus links to sites on TB.
http://home.att.net/~hickorygrove/
In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D.:
In 1961 Dr. James Morison wrote an important paper on why people
smoke: "Smoking Habits of Winnipeg School Children". He also wrote
on nursing homes and public health.
http://members.attcanada.ca/~jmorison/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm
Walter Reed Yellow Fever Papers at U. Va.:
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
Germ Theory Calendar:
A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the
germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900
http://germtheorycalendar.com/
Books and Documents Relevant to U.S. Military Medical History:
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
A Brief History of First Aid:
Article about how the training of civilians in providing pre-medical
care came about, beginning with the Order of St. John.
http://www.sja-haltonhills.org/history2.html
Edward Jenner:
Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox
vaccination.
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.html
