Health and Societies: Primary Sources

ProQuest History Vault. US Presidential and federal agency records from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. Includes records for Johnson's War on Poverty and the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty; the official history and documents of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963-1969; Environmental Protection Agency records on automobile emissions standards and on the health and ecological effects of pollution (1971-1977); the papers of Dean F. Markham and the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics, 1962-1963; the Cabinet Committee on Drug Law Enforcement, 1976-1977; the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, 1970-1973.

ProQuest History Vault. Modules include : Papers of the University Settlement Society of New York City, 1886-1945; Progressive Era Regulation: Bureau of Chemistry Records on the Enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, 1907-1920; Prohibition: Bureau of Internal Revenue Records of the Prohibition Unit and of the Division of Industrial Alcohol, 1918-1934; Prohibition: Records of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement.

ProQuest History Vault. Reports, speeches, correspondence and research materials from the first federal agency dedicated entirely to protecting the welfare of children and families.

Archives Unbound (Gale Cengage). Personal and professional papers of a longtime Public Health Service and US Department of Health, Education and Welfare environmental health specialist. Collection strengths include industrial hygiene (including a longterm study of the health of uranium miners), health effects of air pollution, and toxic weapons. Originals at National Library of Medicine.

Archives Unbound (Gale Cengage). Papers of a US Public Health Service researcher and policymaker, pioneering the medical approach to narcotics addition and also public health treatment of mental illness. Originals at National Library of Medicine, with an online finding aid.

ProQuest History Vault. Part of : Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps. Includes documents on medical examinations, medical care, reproductiive hygiene and sex education for WACs. Additional documents discuss suitability of women in heavy labor and barracks and facilities for women in the US Army.

AM Digital. Documents the history of "popular" remedies and treatments in 19th-century America . From the Library Company of Philadelphia : printed books and pamphlets, trade cares, popular street and anatomy guides, ephemera, posters and broadsides, medical lecture admission cards, and advertisements and letters. From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 18th- and 19th-century pharmacy and medicine posters from the Ars Medica Collection.

Gale Cengage. Contains four separate collections. From the New York Academy of Medicine : The Library of Social and Economic Aspects of Medicine from Michael M. Davis, 1920-1966, reflecting the compiler's lifelong efforts in research and policymaking for a national health care plan; Selected Publications on Public Health, presenting 2,000+ rare pamphlets and other printed material, late 19th century to the end of the 1960s; Committee on Public Health (New York Academy of Medicine) records, documents, and unpublished reports on public health policy, disease and illness, family health issues, and environmental concerns. From the US National Archives and Records Administration : Records of the Children's Bureau: Maternal and Child Health, 1912-1969.

Digitized collections from the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Includes historic books and pamphlets on disabilities, and the papers of Alexander E. Macdonald (1865-1906), general superintendent of the New York City Asylums; and Charles Loomis Dana Papers (1876-1932), a New York physician specializing in neurology.

AM Digital. Two modules. Module I, Research Collections from The Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections covers correspondence, research papers and records, 1947-1993. Module II, Self-expression, Community and Identity presents LGBTQI+ individual personal histories, accounts of activist organizations, and the papers of sexologists..

Gale Cengage. A large and diverse group of individual collections in two main groups. LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Parts I & II, holding the papers of gay rights activists and the records of the Gay Activists Alliance and ACT UP; US government records on the policy and medical response to the AIDS epidemic are also included. Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century, with three collections, the Private Case from the British Library, printed books kept apart from the general collection during 1850-1990, on grounds of obscenity; Special Subject Units from Sex Research, books and other materials, 1700 to 1860, from the Alfred C. Kinsey Institute for Sex Research; and 1,400+ rare and unique monographs from the New York Academy of Medicine.

ProQuest History Vault. Digitized collections documenting Margaret Sanger's activities, including the American Birth Control League and International Planned Parenthood, .

ProQuest History Vault. Records, publications, and personal papers relating to the Anti-Saloon League, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, World League Against Alcohol, Prohibition Party, Scientific Temperance Federation, Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, and other US anti-alcohol movements.

ProQuest History Vault. Includes several records modules from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Classified Files, 1907-1939 : Series C, Indian Health and Medical Affairs, Part 1 : Reports on Medical and Nursing Activities and Part 2 : Diseases; BIA Law and Order Section: Alcohol and Peyote Use by American Indians, 1908-1933. Also includes the South Dakota Emergency Relief Administration's 1935 Survey of Indian Reservations. Originals in US National Archives and Records Administration.

Wiley Digital Archives. Personal papers of British medical personalities, including Edward Jenner. Administrative and some clinical records from several British hospitals, a dispensary, and a private physician practice. Digitized rare books and other materials from the RCP Library. Administrative records for the RCP.

Wiley Digital Archives. In addition to the BAAS papers, including files for the BAAS Anthropology, Physiology, Psychology, and Education sections, this collection provides personal papers from various collections, with medicine, pathology, and physiology materials in the Burton-Sanderson and William Henry Allchin papers.

British Online Archives. Archival materials from four British archival collections focused on plague, cholera, smallpox, and influenza and their effects upon British history.

British Online Archives. The records of "Bedlam", the oldest psychiatric hospital in Europe. Digitized files include : Admission, discharge, and death registers (1683-1919); Male and Female patient casebooks (1793/1778-1913); Voluntary and curable patient casebooks (1816-1913); Criminal and incurable patient admission registers and casebooks (1778-1864); Patient casebooks from the First World War (1914-1919); and Management records (1559-1932). Originals at Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

British Online Archives. Digitized annual reports and statistical "blue books", official gazettes, and government reports and documents from British colonial governments in Africa. For each colony, the Blue Books provide annual statistics on hospitals, medical staffing, and health activities and the government reports will include reports from colonial health departments and other agencies involved in public health activities.

British Online Archives. Annual statistical reports - called "Blue Books" - for Britain's Caribbean colonies. These present statistics on hospitals, staffing, and public health activities.

AM Digital. Primary sources focused on two eras, 1850-1927 (Crimean War, US Civil War, Spanish American War, Boer War, World War I) and 1928-1949 (Spanish Civil War, World War II). Highlights include the papers of Alexander Fleming (working notebooks describing the discovery of Lysozyme and Penicillin) and the Florence Nightingale papers, both from originals at the British Library. Additional collections include wartime physician, medic, and nurse diaries; medical hospital unit and field ambulance records; records from the American Red Cross (World War I) and International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies (Spanish Civil War, World War II).

AM DIgital. Conduct and advice manuals, pamphlets, diaries, commonplace books, and other printed and manuscript documents on conduct and politeness, consumption and leisure, domesticity and the family, education and sensibility, and the body in British culture and society, mid-15th century to early 20th century.

Fulltext ebook database featuring ~200 antiquarian works on the history of science and medicine, especially the inter-relationship between Europe and the Islamic World, 9th to 20th century. Digitized from holdings of the Arcadian Library