American History Sweatshop Exhibition A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution. americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/Read more
Andrew Balfour of Khartoum The career of this pioneer of tropical medicine. Vintage photographs and links are also included. www.geocities.com/aaadeel/abofkrt.htmlRead more
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. www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/fever1793.htmlRead more
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 history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/booksdocs_default.htmlRead more
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 www.americanrevolution.org/medicine.htmlRead more
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. muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/indexold.htmlRead more
Edward Jenner Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination. www.bartleby.com/people/Jenner-E.htmlRead more
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 germtheorycalendar.com/Read more
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. www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.htmlRead more
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. www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/contents.htmlRead more
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. www3.telus.net/public/james135/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htmRead more
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. www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.htmlRead more
Marketing Health: Britain 1945-2000 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. marketinghealth.infoRead more
