History
History
History Links
- 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.
- The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts Extensive exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts.
- Our Modern Plague Part of Emory University's Great Teachers Lecture Series: James Curran, RSPH, Public Health Dean. Magazine June 12, 1997.
- History of the Health Sciences Section Section of the Medical Library Association supporting interest in the history of health sciences. Includes section of links to many health history sites.
- Profiles in Public Health From the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
- Andrew Balfour of Khartoum The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included.
- 'A Year of Achievements, A Century of Progress' HHS Press Office: a fact sheet of important progress in improving the health and welfare of all Americans. 12/31/99
- 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.
- 50 Years of Health in America Prevention magazine looks at notable medical and cultural milestones in American health during the past 5 decades from discovering DNA to using it to clone farm animals.
- 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.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Historical highlights.
- 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.
- 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.
- John Snow and Cholera The life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology. From the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health.
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Views of "The DALY Concept", Authored by Dr. William H. Foege, MD, MPH, Journal of the American Medical Association, June 1, 1994.
- CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
- Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe 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.
- 50 Years of International Public Health Articles of the World Health Organization's contributions to Public Health over the past 50 years.
- 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.
- American History Sweatshop Exhibition A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.
- 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.
- 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.
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