Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
2002-2008
- Size:
-
4.19 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-309
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the work of Katherine Ott, Curator, on the exhibition "Whatever Happened to Polio?" which commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the announcement that Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was safe and effective. The exhibition was at the National Museum of American History from April 12, 2005 t...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Green, Edward C. (Edward Crocker), 1944-
- Dates:
-
circa 1970-2016
- Size:
-
8.12 Linear feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2016-31
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
The papers of Edward C. Green, circa 1970-2016, document his work as an applied medical anthropologist and research consultant focusing principally on the distribution and prevention of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in Africa and South America. Much of Green's research and policy focus lay in understanding indigenous health belief systems and instituting locally-designed approaches to major health concerns. The collection consists of correspondence, field diaries and typed research, sound recordings, photographs, and published reports and articles, including material from his dissertation research among the Matawai Maroons of Suriname.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Garrison, Vivian, 1933-2013
- Dates:
-
circa 1930-2009
bulk 1960-1993
- Size:
-
108.29 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2017-19
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
Vivian E. Garrison was an applied medical anthropologist who researched the cultural understandings and community treatment structures surrounding mental illness and mental health care among low-income, minority, and migrant communities of the New York metropolitan area. The Vivian E. Garrison papers document this research and consist of clinical and case files; research policies and protocols; presentations and workshops notes; manuscripts and drafts; publications and working papers; correspondence; grant applications; administrative files; sound recordings and films; annotated scholarly literature; and personal biographical material.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Think Surgical, Inc. (Fremont, California)
- Dates:
-
1983-2010
bulk 1991-1994
- Size:
-
5.5 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1378
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the development of ROBODOC™, the first robot to perform surgery on a human in the United States through correspondence, memoranda, press clippings, press releases, engineering drawings, regulatory policies and procedures, photographs, and audiovisual materials.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Interdisciplinary Communications Program
- Dates:
-
1968-1976
- Size:
-
85.5 cu. ft. (85 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 300
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Museum of American History. Division of Science, Medicine and Society
- Dates:
-
1955-2004
- Size:
-
3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-102
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Jon B. Eklund, curator of chemistry and computers, which document his curatorial and professional activities in the Division of Science, Medicine and Society and during the years when he was in the Division of Information Technology and Society; the Division of Computers, Information and Society; ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016
Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1915-2001
Harwood, Alan
- Dates:
-
circa 1940s-2001
bulk 1953-2001
- Size:
-
27 Linear feet (60 boxes, 2 manuscript folders), 8 sound recordings, 35 computer disks, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 1 map drawer)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2006-25
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
Alan Harwood is a Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Boston in the Anthropology Department. Trained in social anthropology he has studied illness and healing in Tanzania and communities in New York City and Boston. Harwood was the founding editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (new series, 1986-1991) and series editor of Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (1999-2004) The bulk of this collection is composed of Alan Harwood's 1962-1964 ethnographic research among the Safwa in Tanzania (then known as Tanganyika); his research on health beliefs and medical practices of residents in a low-income area of the Bronx, New York (1967-1970); and his research in Boston, Massachusetts on different ethnic groups' conceptions of health (1994-1995). Also among his papers are materials from his involvement in the Centers for Disease Control and American Anthropological Association (AAA) Workgroup on "The Use of Race & Ethnicity as Scientific Categories" at the 1994 AAA meeting.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Sangaramoorthy, Thurka, 1975-
Khuller, Aamir, Photographer
- Dates:
-
2018-2019
- Size:
-
1.36 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-129
- Repository:
-
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection documents the relations between health care policy and practices and the lived experiences of older Black women living and aging with HIV in the Washington, DC region. It contains twelve oral history interviews, associated transcripts, portraits of the interviewees, and measures 1.36 GB. The interviews were conducted between 2018-2...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Seidell, Atherton, 1878-1961
- Dates:
-
circa 1932-1964
- Size:
-
1.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0449
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Dr. Seidell's thoughts and processes about the subject of microfilming.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
- Dates:
-
1875-1966
bulk 1903-1943
- Size:
-
206.71 Linear feet (294 boxes, 138 folders, 9 rolled items, and 4 folios)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.1974-31
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
The papers of Aleš Hrdlička, curator in the Division of Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, offer considerable insight into the development of physical anthropology in the first half of this century. The papers include honors bestowed on Hrdlička, autobiographical notes, correspondence with many of the leading anthropologists of the day, anthropometric and osteometric measurements and observations (forming most of the collection), extensive photographs of Hrdlička's field work, manuscripts, research materials, and "My Journeys" (essentially a diary Hrdlička kept of his field work). In addition, there is material of a personal nature. The papers date from 1875 to 1966, but the bulk of the materials date from 1903 to 1943, the time of Hrdlička's career at the USNM.