History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links

The History of Diseases

Elie Delaunay P. Leterrier "Street scene with dead or dying people"
AIDS
Anthrax
Cancer
Cholera
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Gaucher Disease
Heart Disease
Hemophilia
Infectious Diseases
Influenza
Leprosy
 Lupus Erythematosus
Malaria
Mental Illness
Pellagra
Plague/Black Death
Polio
Smallpox
Syphilis
Tuberculosis
Typhoid
Yellow Fever

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
AIDS History Center
AIDS Posters: UCLA Digital Library Program
Déja Vu: AIDS in Historical Perspective
In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS

Anthrax

Timeline: Anthrax Through the Ages

Cancer

The History of Cancer
Magic Bullets: Chemistry vs. Cancer

Cholera

Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Text and Images
John Snow: A Historical Giant in Epidemiology
Thomas Shapter : The History of the Cholera in Exeter 1832

Diabetes

Sir Frederick Banting Digital Library
The History of Diabetes

Epilepsy

Epilepsy: An Historical Overview
Epilepsy Museum in Kork, Germany

Gaucher Disease

Roscoe Brady & Gaucher Disease

Heart Disease

The Blue Baby Operation
Cut to the Heart
Framingham Heart Study: Fifty Years of Research Success
History of Adult Transplantation
Partners of the Heart: Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas

Hemophilia

History of Hemophilia

Infectious Diseases

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease
The History of Vaccination
When Worlds Collide: Micro Versus Macro (Click from Virtual Museum)

Influenza

Influenza Digital Archive: The 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Bibliography
Influenza, 1918 - The American Experience (PBS)

Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)

Global Project on the History of Leprosy
Leprosy Trials and Treatment: A Brief History
National Hansen's Disease Museum

Lupus Erythematosus

The History Of Lupus Erythematosus

Malaria

From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age

Mental Illness

Caring for the Mentally Ill - Long Island, Our Story
History and Schizophrenia
History of Madness in Canada
The Lobotomist - The American Experience (PBS)
Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness - A Brilliant Madness (PBS)

Pellagra

Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra

Plague

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1722)
John Graunt (1620-1674)
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

The Black Death
The Black Death - BBC Online
The Black Death - History Magazine
The Black Death and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. Hecker (1832)
Black Death & the Jews 1348-1349

Polio

History of Polio
Iron Lung
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
The Legacy of Albert Sabin
Sr. Elizabeth Kenny
What Ever Happened to Polio?

Smallpox

The Global Health Chronicles: Smallpox Eradication
Smallpox: Eradicating the Scourge
Smallpox: Innoculation, Vaccination, Eradication
Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death (from Annals of Internal Medicine)

Syphilis

Paul Ehrlich: Some Important Dates (Paul Ehrlich Institut)

Tuberculosis

Brief History of Tuberculosis
Human Impact of Tuberculosis - Canadian Lung Association
The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France by David Barnes (1995)

Typhoid

Dinner with Typhoid Mary - Long Island, Our Story
The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary - Nova (PBS)
Walter Reed and Typhoid Fever, 1897-1911: Illuminating a Different Civil War

Yellow Fever

The Great Fever (American Experience) (PBS)
Major Walter Reed, Medical Corps, U.S. Army
Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection
"This Most Dreadful Pest of Humanity:" Yellow Fever and the Reed Commission, 1898-1901
Who Was Dr. Carlos J. Finlay?

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Last updated 2 November 2009
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