Public Health 302: Health and Disease: Concepts and Contexts
This guide is to work alongside and guide students through the research journal for students enrolled in Public Health 302
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Reflective Questions
- What assumptions do you think shaped how people used to view diseases? How does that differ from how we view diseases now?
- How do you plan to find out what some older terms are for different diseases or symptoms of disease?
- How do you anticipate some of the historical books and pamphlets might address factors of race, gender, sexuality, social class, poverty, or culture? what assumptions do you think shaped those views?
Historic Collections
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NIH Digital CollectionsThis expansive collection of texts, images, manuscripts, and archival materials including books from the history of medicine can be easily searched and browsed depending on your area of interest.
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Medical Heritage LibraryPart of the Internet archive,The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine
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Digital Collections at the Library of CongressDigitized versions of collection materials available online since 1994, concentrating on its most unique collections and including digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books, as well as "born digital" materials such as Web sites.
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LitMedThe Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database is an annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art that was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource for teaching and research in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, and for use in health/pre-health, graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and social science settings.
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Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”
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Wellcome Library ImagesThe Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how people think and feel about health. Their digital collections are also available to search
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History of the Health SciencesThis comprehensive list of resources to locate primary source information from the history of medicine and the health sciences was created by the Medical Library Association.