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Public Health and Safety - History

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      new window 50 Years of International Public Health Description: Articles of the World Health Organization's contributions to Public Health over the past 50 years. (who.int)
new window A Brief History of First Aid Description: Article about how the training of civilians in providing pre-medical care came about, beginning with the Order of St. John. (sja-haltonhills.org)
new window American History Sweatshop Exhibition Description: A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution. (americanhistory.si.edu)
new window Andrew Balfour of Khartoum Description: The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included. (geocities.com)
new window Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever Description: 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. (geocities.com)
new window Books and Documents Relevant to U.S. Military Medical History Description: 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 (history.amedd.army.mil)
new window Buchan's Domestic Medicine Description: An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century (americanrevolution.org)
new window Bulletin of the History of Medicine Description: 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. (muse.jhu.edu)
new window CDC Public Health Image Library - PHIL Description: An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health. (phil.cdc.gov)
new window Clendening History of Medicine Library: Nightingale Letters Description: Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing (clendening.kumc.edu)
new window Dr. Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra Description: An essay on a pioneer in Public Health. Authored by Alan Kraut, Ph.D., Professor of History, American University. (nih.gov)
new window Edward Jenner Description: Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination. (bartleby.com)
new window Germ Theory Calendar Description: A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900 (germtheorycalendar.com)
new window How the Other Half Lives Description: 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. (cis.yale.edu)
new window Images From the History of the Public Health Service Description: 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. (nlm.nih.gov)
new window In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D. Description: 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. (members.allstream.net)
new window International Network for the History of Public Health Description: 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. (tema.liu.se)
new window John Snow and Cholera Description: 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. (ph.ucla.edu)
new window Memoir of 1798 Yellow Fever Epidemic Description: Dr. Benjamin Rush's Memoir of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1798 (geocities.com)
new window Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe Description: A hypertext archive of narratives and government records of Italian epidemics in the 14th century (jefferson.village.virginia.edu)
new window The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts Description: Extensive exhibit information and photographs about public health in Massachusetts. (publichealthmuseum.org)
new window U. S. Public Health Service Bicentennial Description: On-line exhibits and videos of significant events to help people learn more about public health and the history of the PHS. (surgeongeneral.gov)
new window U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Description: Historical highlights. (hhs.gov)
new window Walter Reed Yellow Fever Papers at U. Va. Description: 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 (yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu)
 




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