Public Health, Disease, and Medicine

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Plague Doctor
Responding to Pandemics—Both Past and Present
glass vaccine vials with labels that read "vaccine"
You Might Feel a Pinch: Vaccination Laws in the Era of COVID-19
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.
Black Canadians and Pandemics
Group of people wearing masks
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
woman looking at hypodermic needle
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
The flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza
A painting by Siu Luna.
Another Silent Spring
American Dreams at Little Duck Key.
The American Dream after COVID-19
a woman caring for someone with HIV
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor
Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era
Emperor Nero
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.
Work and Life after COVID-19
Plague doctor mask
The Black Death and Its Aftermath
A COVID-19 anti-lockdown protestor in Vancouver, Canada, May 2020
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
People wearing masks
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.
Early American Contagions
Hospital workers
Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003
A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in this depiction.
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19
Vaccination team member giving a cholera vaccine in Cerca Carvajal, 2013.
Cholera and the Roots of Public Health
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.
The Justinianic Plague
Thai epidemiologists conduct active case investigations for COVID-19 during the Ramadan fasting period.
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
An AIDS testing site in Moscow, 1987.
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS