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.

Explore Collections Materials

Spanish Flu Epidemic at Â鶹AV
Bryn Mawr student in a Geology Lab, mid-20th century

Books on Medicine, Health, Sanitation
Women, Plumbers, and Doctors by Plunkett

Sickness, Disease, and Medicine as Subjects of Art, Artifactual Evidence
  •  - melancholic, sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic
  •  to Medical Students

Assignment Ideas

Digital Exhibition Examples

  • (Scalar)
  • (SquareSpace)
  • (Google Tour Builder)
  • (Knight Labs/Story Maps)

Request Display Space for Physical or Digital Exhibitions 

Help Document COVID-19

Class Blog Examples

  •  (WordPress)

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