Frederick Waddy, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, First Female Doctor in France, Frederick Waddy, 1873
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (1836 – 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon…
Tags: Britain, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Feminist, Physician, Surgeon, Women
Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, Expecting? Get the Right Advice from the Right Sources, Library of Congress, September 2nd, 1938
Posters from the Works Progress Administration often focused on public health. This poster focuses on infant care, which was a particularly popular…
Tags: FDR, Federal Arts Project, Infant Care, Posters, Public Health, WPA
Library of Congress, Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Library of Congress, 1910
Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. Henry Wadsworth…
Tags: Crimean War, Florence Nightingale, London, Nursing, Women
CDC, Government Reporting Chain: NARMS, CDC, No date
The federal government established the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS) in 1996 as a national public…
Tags: Antibiotic Resistance, CDC, FDA, Health, NARMS, Public Health, USDA
Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (Artist: Ben Kaplan), Health for Efficiency, Library of Congress, 1936-1941
This poster, sponsored by the Adult Education Project of the Board of Education and WPA, is an advertisement for free courses on "health education."…
Tags: Education, FDR, Federal Arts Project, Health Education, Posters, WPA
Melvin Baker, Jeffrey Wigand, Tobacco Industry Whistleblower, Melvin Baker, 2006
Jeffrey Wigand, the one-time tobacco executive, is now known synonymously with the term "whistleblower". When he realized how his company, Brown &…
Tags: Consumer Protection, Jeffrey Wigand, Public Health, Tobacco, Whistleblower
Hermann Günther, John M. Woodworth, First Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health & Human Service:, 1865
This photograph is of John Maynard Woodworth, (1837-1879), the first Surgeon General. The position was first created in 1871 in order to head the…
Tags: HHS, John Woodworth, Marine Hospital, Marines, Surgeon General
National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine / Ferree, Juke Joint Sniper, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1942
In this 1942 poster by Ferree, a striking blonde woman lights up a cigarette in front of a bar. The woman has blond hair and wears a short-sleeved…
Tags: Disease, Feree, STD Prevention & Control, STDs, Women, World War II
Harris & Ewing, Lillian Wald, First President of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing, Library of Congress, Between 1905 and 1940
Lillian D. Wald ( 1867 – 1940) was a nurse, social worker, public health official, teacher, author, editor, publisher, activist for peace, women's,…
Tags: Health Insurance, Lillian Wald, NOPHN, Nursing, Women
U.S. Postal Service, Mary Breckinridge, Nurse, The Smithsonian National Postal Museum , 1998
Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the New Model of Rural Health Care & Frontier Nursing Service. She started family…
Tags: Healthcare, Mary Breckinridge, Nursing, Public Health, Rural Healthcare
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