United States Public Health Service (USPHS)

A film still of a framed poster that says "Know for Sure-get a blood test for syphilis."

VD at the Movies: Public Health Service World War II Venereal Disease Films

November 21, 2019 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger John Parascandola, PhD from the University of Maryland to explore the use of film in public health campaigns against venereal

A white woman in rubber gloves prepares a sample.

The Search for Cancer Viruses, 1966

June 20, 2019 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Robin Wolfe Scheffler, the Leo Marx Career Development Assistant Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the

In a hilly landscape, men and women around a large frame house with a long porch, a horse and carriage wait in front.

Revealing Data: Rain, Epidemics, and Life on the Docks in 1918

June 1, 2017 Circulating Now

By Ashley Bowen ~ United States Public Health Service (USPHS) officers stationed in the San Francisco Bay complained about the rain and deer eating the