Public Health, Disease, and Medicine

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Photo of a smiling doctor
2/11/14: "Body Politics: The History of Health Care Policy"
President Warring G. Harding at Walter Reed Hospital in March of 1921.
People Were Skeptical about Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The Affordable Care Act and Health Policy Precedents
Man Celebrating Repeal Day with a banner that says "Good Old Days Are Back Again!"
Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint
Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"
The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America
Cover of A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920 by Dorothy Ann Pettit and Janice Bailie.
Before There Was Swine Flu
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Famine: A Short History
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner
The Anatomy Murders
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus to help understand its particularly deadly effects.
Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again
An insurance form with pills.
“Hands off My Medicare”: The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance
An electron microscopic image of a thin section of SARS-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell, showing the spherical particles and cross-sections through the viral nucleocapsid.
Could SARS Set off Another Great Pandemic?
Image of Lou Gehrig from a Sports Exchange All-Stars trade card.
Celebrating a Genuine American Hero
Immunization poster from the early 1940s that says, " Immunization: Saves Lives," and shows a child receiving a vaccination.
Voluntary Vaccination: Deciding the Risk of Unknowable Danger
paper with AIDS text on it
AIDS Education in Bombay's Red Light District