Recursos externos > Historia de la medicina > Enfermedades

• Cólera
  • Cholera's genetic secrets revealed. BBC NEWS.
  • Fighting Cholera with maps (National geographic)
  • Information about Cholera for Disaster Situations. Pan American Health Organization
  • Snow's Cholera Map
  • John Snow (1813-1858). Department of Epidemiology UCLA School of Public Health (USA)
  • The Birmingham Cholera Epidemic of 1873
    
• Escorbuto
  • James Lind: A Treatise of the Scurvy, 1753. Of the Prevention of the Scurvy. (SE). "I shall conclude the precepts relating to the preservation of seamen with showing the best means of obviating many inconveniences which attend long voyages and of removing the several causes productive of this mischief. The following are the experiments".
  • James Cook and the Introduction of Lime Juice in the British Navy. (SE)
    
• Fiebre amarilla
  • La otra historia de la fiebre amarilla en Cuba. 1492-1909 (Dr. Gabriel José Toledo Curbelo)
  • About Dr. Carlos J. Finlay (fiebre amarilla). Biographical Notes. By Dr. Juan Guiteras (US)
  • Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection .University of Virginia (US)
• Influenza
  • Influenza 1918  - WGBH Educ. Foundation (US)
• Lepra
  • The Global Project on the History of Leprosy: "The Global Project on the History of Leprosy is the initiative of The International Leprosy Association (in conjunction with WHO and the Nippon Foundation) and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford, England. The Project is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world in order to facilitate historical research into leprosy. The database is to be a working tool for researchers who are interested in the early-modern to modern history of leprosy (from 1847 when Danielssen and Boeck published Om Spedalskhed). It will also be of interest to those connected with leprosy and its impact".
  • Lepraarkiva (NO) An online exhibition of leprosy archives in Bergen, Norway
• Malaria
  • The history of malaria (CA). Main source of information: The Malaria Capers by Robert S. Desowitz. (Contiene una páginas de recursos sobre el tema).
  • History of malaria
• Peste
  • Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe. (US)."This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530. When completed researchers will be able to follow themes and issues geographically across Europe in any given time period or chronologically from the first cases of bubonic plague in 1348 to the early sixteenth century".
  • The London Plague of 1665
  • TED Case Studies. The Role of Trade in Transmitting the Black Death (US)
  • The Black Death: Bubonic Plague "In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black". (US).
  • Plagues & Epidemies (The first epidemic of a waterborne disease probably was caused by an infected caveman relieving himself in waters upstream of his neighbors. Perhaps the entire clan was decimated, or maybe the panicky survivors ... (US).
• Polio
  • El fín de la Polio. "Veinte millones de personas están paralizadas hoy en día como consecuencia de este virus terrible. Pero el mundo está a punto de asegurar que ninguna otra persona en el mundo sufra el mismo destino..."
  • A short History Post-Polio Network (NSW) Inc (AU)
  • Poliomyelitis History (US).
• Rabia
  • Rabies History in New York State. Rabies Annual Summaries (US). (New York State Department of Health).
• Sida
  • "In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Days of AIDS". The website features some of the oral history interviews the NIH Historian,Victoria A. Harden, and her colleagues have done since 1988 with NIH physicians, scientists, nurses, and administrators whose work comprised the NIH's response to AIDS between 1981 and 1988.
  • Déja vu: Aids in Historical Perspective
• Sífilis
  • Origins of syphilis, Archaeology (Newsbriefs) Volume 50 Number 1 January/February 1997 (US).
• Sífilis: El caso Tuskegee
  • Troubling Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study - from 1932 to 1972 399 African-American males were denied treatment treatment for syphilis and deceived by the United States Public Health Service.
  • Tuskegee Syphilis - from Morgana's Observatory
  • Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, by Kevin C. Pyle
• Tuberculosis
  • A History of Tuberculosis Treatment (US)
  • American Lung Association Crusade (The). "The American Lung Association is the oldest voluntary public health agency in the United States..."
  • Canada's Role in Fighting Tuberculosis (CA). Contiene un capítulo histórico.
  • A Cultural History of Tuberculosis in Modern Japan. FUKUDA Mahito (JP)
  • History of Tuberculosis In Canada (CA)
  • A History of Tuberculosis (US)