By Erika Mills ~ Currently, 35 million people around the world are living with HIV. Many lack access to vital information and resources that would
Tag: epidemic
Giving Thanks
By Elizabeth A. Mullen and Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ In the NLM’s History of Medicine Division, we have a lot to be thankful for this
Exploring Chicago’s Spanish Flu of 1918
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger E. Thomas Ewing, Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia
Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture
By Erika Mills The advent of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s bred an atmosphere of fear and confusion as people fell ill and died, questions
How To…Prevent the Bubonic Plague
by Michael Sappol The Bubonic Plague and How to Prevent It, 1897 This roughly-printed small pamphlet (4¼” x 5½”; 30 pages) documents a big catastrophe: