Health and sanitation program: agreement between the United States of America and Peru: effected by exchange of notes, signed at Washington, May 9 and 11, 1942. Click on image to see the document.
The digital collection World War 2, available at the website of the U.S National Library of Medicine includes more than 1,500 federal, state, and local government publications.
Among the variety of materials
included are government reports, first aid manuals, informational pamphlets, and recruitment materials that demonstrate the efforts of government, military personnel, health professionals, and scientists, among others, on the home front and overseas during and immediately following the Second World War.
Highlights of this collection include:
- publications on the challenges introduced by the new weaponry of chemical warfare, including an illustrated field manual entitled Defense against chemical attack, released by the U.S. Army in 1940;
- a 1945 self-care guide entitled Keep well! Here’s How published by the War Shipping Administration that warns of the dangers of malaria, dysentery, and venereal disease;
- recruitment brochures, reports, and other materials that display the changing role and status of the military nurse during and after the war;
- Final report of the Committee on Medical and Hospital Services of the Armed Forces (1949), and other documents originally classified as “Restricted” that now bear “Unclassified” stamps, many of which were signed by Dr. Frank B. Rogers, director of the Library from 1949 until 1963.
See in Manguinhos:
Pasqualini, Mauro. Un enigma llamado Agostino Gemelli: catolicismo, fascismo y psicoanálisis en la Italia de entreguerras. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2016, vol.23, no.4, p.1059-1075. ISSN 0104-5970
Arrizabalaga, Jon. Humanitarismo, guerra e innovación tecnológica: el caso de Cruz Roja Española. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2016, vol.23, no.3, p.825-827. ISSN 0104-5970
Martínez, Francisco Javier. Estado de necesidad: la Cruz Roja Española en Marruecos, 1886-1927. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2016, vol.23, no.3, p.867-886. ISSN 0104-5970
Allevi, José Ignacio. Sociabilidades, redes y circulación de saberes en la conformación de un “ámbito psi” en la Argentina de entreguerras (Santa Fe, 1919-1943). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2016, vol.23, no.2, p.543-550. ISSN 0104-5970
Wulf, Stefan. The Revista Médica project: medical journals as instruments of German foreign cultural policy towards Latin America, 1920-1938. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2013, vol.20, no.1, p.181-201. ISSN 0104-5970
