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About the Museum

WEBAntiseptic surgery, hospital medicine, and public health–beginning against the rear wall and stretching around the corner to the right–culminating in the post-germ-theory 1920s …

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Public Outreach, History, and Health

WEBThey have a renewed dedication to “urban health,” and seek to address the broader determinants of health, and “the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to …

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Smallpox: A City on the Edge of Disaster

WEBPublic health officials believed that disinfecting residences and isolating smallpox patients had been effective in halting the spread of the disease. In early 1902 the people of …

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Advancing Mental Health art sci magazine

WEBCOVID-19’s Damage to Mental Health. During the first two years of the pandemic, more than 40% of U.S. adults reported experiencing high levels of psychological distress, …

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Celebrating Juno, the Transparent Woman

WEBWelcome back to the Dittrick Museum Blog! This month, the Wellcome Collection’s Object of the Month is celebrating a mainstay of health museums world …

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Seeing Small: How the Microscope Changed Everything

WEBPublic health was born! The Cleveland Connection Dudley Peter Allen (for whom the Allen Memorial Medical Library is named) acquired an Edmund Hartnack type …

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Morbid Matter: Public Health and Public Opinion

WEBJohn Snow in Anesthesia and Epidemiology Today, June 16th, we remember the work of Dr. John Snow who died on this day in 1858. During his lifetime, Snow’s …

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A Change of Heart: Cardiology in Cleveland

WEBClaude Beck: Developer of the first heart defibrillator in Cleveland, Ohio. Beck trained at Johns Hopkins and joined University Hospitals Case Medical Center in …

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Susan Hinze – College of Arts and Sciences

[email protected]. 216.368.2702. Mather Memorial Building 223F. Education: Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1995. Professor Hinze is an Associate Professor of Sociology and …

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Michele Tracy Berger – College of Arts and Sciences

WEBShe is the author, most recently, of Black Women’s Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters (New York University Press, 2022), the first monograph to focus on the …

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Architecture! Designing for Health in the Early 20th Century

WEBIt’s #MuseumWeek, where museums around the world take to Twitter in a behind-the-scenes look at collections!Today’s theme is architecture.Follow us here on …

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Polio Prepared: Treatment before Vaccines

WEBPolio Prepared: Treatment before Vaccines. July 28, 2023. Epidemic, polio, Pubic health, Sanitation. “No single event impressed me more than what happened on …

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Juno, the Transparent Woman, and #WomensHistoryMonth

WEBIn 1950, a friend of the Cleveland Health Education Museum paid $15,000 to bring Juno to Cleveland. She first appeared in public on November 13, 1950, and a …

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For the LOVE of Medical History

WEBEven the way death is depicted — as a failure of medical treatment or an inevitable end — is shaped by the unique historical ways health has been understood. …

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Gebhard Collection, Cleveland Health Museum Photographs

WEBThe Gebhard collection consists of approximately 600 to 800 photographs, and hundreds of postcards and printed pieces on a wide variety of topics concerning health education. …

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Cleveland Hospitals

WEBCleveland State Hospital (Newburgh Asylum) The Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1855 and operated as a facility for the long-term care of those considered …

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Of Syphilis and Salvarsan: The danger and promise of cure

WEBSalvarsan was the first organic anti-syphilitic. It was distributed as a yellow, crystalline, hygroscopic powder–one that was unstable. This naturally complicated …

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Lee Hoffer using grant to assist Ohio’s Syringe Exchange Program

WEBThese community-based programs promote public health by providing clean syringes, safe disposal containers to users, and offering access to various health …

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