Public Health, Disease, and Medicine

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Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.
The Black Death and its Aftermath
The hazards of an enclosed work environment – a typist with cloth mask during the influenza pandemic in 1918.
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.
Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic
Pandemics: Past, Present, Future
Sculpture of Donald Trump ripping up the Paris climate agreement.
Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America
Hypodermic needle collecting medicine
The History of Vaccination: Top 10 Things to Know
A young Paraguayan boy receives a vaccination during the 2014 'Vaccination Week In The Americas.'
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
"Gay Liberation" by George Segal
Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution
illustration of Prince George IV
Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future
A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
Insulin shock therapy being administered in the 1950s to a psychiatric patient.
America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
People holding signs: "More Mental Health Care + Less Jail Time" and "Support Mental Health - It's the Right Thing to Do"
Mental Health and American Society
A 1950s flyer describing fluoride as rat poison, the polio vaccine as a communist conspiracy to bring about socialized medicine, and mental health as a Jewish plot to imprison anti-Semites in insane asylums.
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle
Red and yellow test tubes on cover of Health Technology and Science ibook
Health, Technology and Science: Today & Yesterday
A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.
Top Ten Origins: Flu
Collage: On the left, a group of men emptying liquor bottles during Prohibition. On the right, a field of marijuana plants
Hooked: Drugs, Prohibition, and American Cities
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food
Food for Thought: Diet in History
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation
Top Ten Origins: Vaccination
lab tech with vaccine
Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field
Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her
The Contentious ACA