History of Medicine, Healthcare, and Disease

The history of healthcare and disease may involve many interdisciplinary sources across vast sources of print and digitized archives.

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• Books and E-Books, (background information; reference material, aggregated sources, encyclopedias)
   
• Articles via Databases (scholarly articles, newspapers & more)
   
• Images
   
• Grey Literature
   
• Locating Archives (repositories in archives at NYU and beyond)
   
• Finding and Using Primary Sources
   
• Citing your sources (getting organized, keeping a paper trail; avoiding plagiarism)

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• Online Tutorials
• Classes and Workshops
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Search here for books, articles, journals and other print materials, videos, sound recordings, e-books, e-journals, databases, and indexes in our local libraries and special collections.

"...the Quilt is a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. More than 48,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels — most commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS — have been sewn together by friends, lovers and family members. This is the story of how the Quilt began…"  MORE