Historical resources

Interested in medical history?  Check out this annotated bibliography of articles on past pandemics.  When she no longer had access to the rare books room, New York Academy of Medicine Library volunteer Hannah Johnston compiled a list of digital materials.  We're living through some weird times, but history can help us make some sense of where we are now.

Photo from the Center for Disease Control's 1918 Historical Image Gallery

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/historical-images.htm

Pandemic Part 2: A Trip to Philadelphia's Mutter Museum - JN Learning

Photo from The Spit Spreads Death Exhibit 

at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.

Pandemic Part 2: A Trip to Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum

Educational Objective
To understand the responsibilities of a citizen during a pandemic

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A new exhibit on the 1918 flu pandemic asks: What is an individual’s responsibility to their community during a pandemic? Exhibit curator Jane Boyd and museum manager Nancy Hill take Jennifer Abbasi on a tour of the medical museum’s new exhibit just weeks before the COVID-19 outbreak first emerged.

Pandemic Part 1: 1918 Flu Pandemic and COVID-19 (JN Learning)

Other helpful links:

• The Mutter Museum
• Spit Spreads Death Exhibit