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The Architecture of Health Care (Part 2)
Today’s guest post is written by Bert Hansen, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history at Baruch College of CUNY. He is the author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass...
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis Opens
By Anne Garner, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts and Rebecca Jacobs, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of the City of New York Typist wearing mask, New York City, October, 16, 1918....
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Dr. David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic
Today’s guest post is written by Victoria Johnson, author of American Eden (Liveright, 2018). On October 9, Dr. Johnson will give a talk at the Academy on David Hosack (1769–1835), the visionary...
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Finding Cause in Street Cleanliness: The Citizens’ Association of New York...
By Anne Garner, Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts It’s 1863. New York’s streets are dismal. Downtown, the scents of manure, garbage and chemicals permeate the air. The streets are littered with...
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Highlighting NYAM Women in Medical History: Sara Josephine Baker, MD, DrPh
By Hannah Johnston, Library Volunteer This the first entry in our series on female New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Fellows and their contributions to society. Please also see our biographical...
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Quarantine in Nineteenth-Century New York
By Lorna Ebner, Guest Contributor, Stony Brook University As COVID-19 races through New York, we asked Lorna Ebner to tell us about previous attempts to mitigate disease in the city. Ms. Ebner is a PhD...
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Stephen Smith, MD, New York Pioneer of Public Health
by Paul Theerman, Director At its Annual Meeting of the Fellows, November 12, 2020, The New York Academy of Medicine is presenting the Stephen Smith Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Public...
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Maternal Mortality In New York City: NYAM’s Landmark 1933 Study
By Paul Theerman, Director NYAM’s 1933 maternal mortality report is one of the 30 highlights of “Celebrating NYAM Milestones,” prepared for our 175th anniversary in 2022. In 1930, the New York Academy...
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A Network of Eugenic Maternalism: Finding the New York Babies’ Welfare...
By Jamie Marsella, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, and the Library’s 2022 Paul Klemperer Fellow Ms. Marsella completed her Fellowship residency in summer 2022 and will...
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Views and Voices of Older New Yorkers
By Mario Rubano, MPH, Center for Healthy Aging, NYAM Today’s guest blogger is Mario Rubano, Policy Associate at NYAM’s Center for Healthy Aging. Mr. Rubano plays a central role in the Academy’s next...
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