Facets

2009 CE

#9830

A history of total health.

https://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/ "A History of Total Health invites you to join in a discussion of today’s health care as we draw links to relevant events in the history of Kaiser Permanente and the industri…

2017 CE

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

2018 CE

#9959

CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…

2017 CE

#9591

History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal.

http://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/ "The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Web Portal is designed to gather resources in medical humanities for students, scholars, physicians, and the general public fo…

2017 CE

#9958

HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.

https://archive-it.org/collections/8400 HIV/AIDS "A collection of websites selected and archived by the National Library of Medicine on biomedical, clinical, cultural, and social aspects of HIV/AIDS in the early 21st …

2010 CE

#10612

Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.

"From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has alway…

2016 CE

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, artic…

2016 CE

#8165

International Committee of the Red Cross: History.

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/history. Extensive background, videos, links to the ICRC archives, etc., etc. Accessed 12-2016

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2002 CE

#10175

Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.

"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

2010 CE

#9953

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library

https://archive.org/details/cmslibrary&tab=collection "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Library is a research library dedicated to supporting the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The digitized collect…

1996 CE

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1953 CE

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenpla…

1963 CE

#7947

The MEDLARS story at the National Library of Medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2021 CE

#13667

Vesaliana: An updated and annotated Vesalius Bibliography, including all known publications on Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) and his works. Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.

http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ A bibliography of studies about Vesalius and his works. When I added this entry in October 2021 the latest version was a 582-page PDF dated January 2021.

2016 CE

#8062

WHO Historical collection.

Background Disease classifications and nomenclature documents History of international health organizations documents League of Nations malaria documents Rare books on plague, smallpox and epidemiology

2016 CE

#8063

Wikipedia Timeline of global health.

1.Big picture 1.1Late 1700s–1930s (pre-WWII era) 1.21940s–early 1960s (post-WWII era) 1.3Late 1960s–1970s 1.41980s–2000 1.52000s and beyond 2.Full timeline 2.1Inclusion criteria 2.2Timeline 3.S…