Teaching Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease

Special Collections has extensive holdings of prints, photographs, cultural objects, historical books, and manuscripts relating to epidemics, disease, medicine and health that can be used in classes this year. Below are links to lists of some of these pieces in the collections, but these lists are not comprehensive. Please contact us if you would like to discuss options for your classes.

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Spanish Flu Epidemic at Bryn Mawr College
	Finding Aid Letters home during the Spanish Flu quarantine (1918-1919) Annual Report of College President
Books on Medicine, Health, Sanitation
	Finding Aid for Medicine, Epidemics and Public Health historical collections Finding Aid for Philadelphia Epidemics
Sickness, Disease, and Medicine as Subjects of Art, Artifactual Evidence
	Some artworks, artifacts related to themes of sickness, disease, medicine Typhoid Plague and Mass Grave Burial Offering comparanda Representations of the four temperaments - melancholic, sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic Resource: Teaching Art History of Epidemics to Medical Students