Teaching Histories of Health, Medicine, and Disease
Special Collections has extensive holdings of prints, photographs, cultural objects, historical books, and manuscripts relating to epidemics, disease, medicine and health that can be used in classes this year. Below are links to lists of some of these pieces in the collections, but these lists are not comprehensive. Please contact us if you would like to discuss options for your classes.
Explore Collections Materials
Spanish Flu Epidemic at Bryn Mawr College |
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Books on Medicine, Health, Sanitation |
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Sickness, Disease, and Medicine as Subjects of Art, Artifactual Evidence |
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Assignment Ideas
Digital Exhibition Examples
- ReconTEXTILEize (Scalar)
- Venusian Virtual Vanguards (SquareSpace)
- All-Over Design (Google Tour Builder)
- Expressing the Inexpressible (Knight Labs/Story Maps)
Request Display Space for Physical or Digital Exhibitions
Help Document COVID-19
Class Blog Examples
- 360 Mirrors & Masks (WordPress)
Contact Us
Library and Information Technology Services
Canaday Library
101 N Merion Ave
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010
Office of the CIO:
610-526-5271