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Our utmost congratulations to History of Medicine alumni Paul William Child whose expanded MA thesis entitled The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine has been published by University of Virginia Press. Child, an English professor, earned his MA in o...
Our own Dr. Graham Mooney published “The tragedy of the repeated history in Britain of austerity causing mortality” with colleagues Simon Szreter, Gabriel Mesevage, David Green and Hilary Cooper in the H&P: History & Policy Journal. According to their website, “H&P publishes hi...
Our own Dr. Julia Cummiskey gave the plenary talk “From Zika to AIDS and Back Again: Stories of Virus Research in Uganda” at the University of Florida’s Making a World of Difference: Stories about Global Health event on October 21, 2025.
This event is sponsored by the University of Florida’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment). The Natio...
From 1919-1921, Henry Hanson, MD (1877-1954), as Director of Yellow Fever Control for the National Health Department of Peru, led a Rockefeller Foundation-funded fight against a yellow fever and bubonic plague epidemic in northern Peru.
In 1921, his staff in the Campaña Sanitaria Contra la Fiebre Amarilla en el Peru presented Hanson with this large commemorativ...
In 1798, Edward Jenner, an English country physician, published his historic work, An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae vaccinae, in which he demonstrated the effectiveness of vaccination in the prevention of smallpox, through illustrated case histories.
In 1932, Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs donated his library to the Institute of the...
