Photographs for Mental Health Care Reform: The Maryland State Care Campaign, 1908-1910 - http://www.msa.md.gov/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.
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.
Medicine and Madison Avenue - http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/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.
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.
Social History of Medicine - http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/ A journal concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past.
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.
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.
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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