Knowledge: health
See Also:
- arts → architecture → building types → hospitals and asylums
- health
- recreation → antiques → medical and scientific
Links
- Society for the Social History of Medicine
http://www.sshm.org/ - Pursues inter-disciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice. Organization information, upcoming conferences, journal table of contents, and internet links.
- Disability Social History Project
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dshp.html - Timeline, essays, upcoming conferences, and other resources related to the history of disability in society. The ways in which people with disabilities have been treated vary dramatically throughout history and among different cultures.
- Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GouAnom.html - Full, indexed text of this encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery. By George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
- Photographs for Mental Health Care Reform: The Maryland State Care Campaign, 1908-1910
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc5400/sc5492/html/almshouse.html - This online exhibition traces the Maryland State Lunacy Commission's successful campaign to transfer the mentally ill from county almshouses into state hospitals. Photographs played a key role in the passage of new laws.
- Dr. Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/about/history/sabin.htm - Information on Albert B. Sabin, MD, developer of the polio vaccine from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
- Medicine and Madison Avenue
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/ - Explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising. Presents images and database information for various health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines.
- Social History of Medicine
http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/ - A journal concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past.
- The Innominate Society of Louisville
http://www.innominatesociety.com - Presentations and discussions of papers dealing with subjects of interest or importance in the fields of medical history and the cultural aspects of medicine.
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