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	Medicine and Madison Avenue URL: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/mma/ ODP description: Explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising. Presents images and database information for various health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines.
	Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GouAnom.html ODP description: Full, indexed text of this encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery. By George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
	The Innominate Society of Louisville URL: http://www.innominatesociety.com ODP description: Presentations and discussions of papers dealing with subjects of interest or importance in the fields of medical history and the cultural aspects of medicine. Page title: INDEX
	Society for the Social History of Medicine URL: http://www.sshm.org/ ODP description: Pursues inter-disciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice. Organization information, upcoming conferences, journal table of contents, and internet links.
	Dr. Albert Sabin's Discovery of the Oral Polio Vaccine URL: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/about/history/sabin.htm ODP description: Information on Albert B. Sabin, MD, developer of the polio vaccine from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Page title: Albert Sabin, Oral Polio Vaccine Discovery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Page description: Albert B. Sabin, MD, developer of the polio vaccine, came to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 1939.
	Photographs for Mental Health Care Reform: The Maryland State Care Campaign, 1908-1910 URL: http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc5400/sc5492/html/almshouse.html ODP description: This online exhibition traces the Maryland State Lunacy Commission's successful campaign to transfer the mentally ill from county almshouses into state hospitals. Photographs played a key role in the passage of new laws. Page title: The Use and Implications of Photographs for Mental Health Care Reform: The Maryland State Lunacy Commission State Care Campaign, 1908-1910 Page description: A web exhibition focusing upon photography as the tool to reform the conditions for the mentally ill held within Maryland's county almshouses and institutions during the early twentieth century.
	Disability Social History Project URL: http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dshp.html ODP description: Timeline, essays, upcoming conferences, and other resources related to the history of disability in society. The ways in which people with disabilities have been treated vary dramatically throughout history and among different cultures.
	Social History of Medicine URL: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/ ODP description: A journal concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Page title: Oxford Journals \| Humanities \| Social History of Medicine