The Health and Disease featured topic brings together and provides an access point to resources from CTDA contributor organizations that pertain... Show moreThe Health and Disease featured topic brings together and provides an access point to resources from CTDA contributor organizations that pertain both broadly and specifically to health and disease in Connecticut’s distant and more recent past. It includes links to documents, broadsides, photographs, media reports, government records and other artifacts from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first centuries, organized into format- and topic-based sub-collections. The digital primary sources curated for this topic document epidemics and pandemics and their impact, ways to foster and maintain public health through disease prevention and treatment, promotion of wellness, and services of healthcare professionals and organizations designed to support these efforts and provide aid to those with health issues. The Health and Disease featured topic is one twenty-four curated sets created through the Connecticut Collections Alliance project funded by Connecticut Humanities, which seeks to make resources in Connecticut cultural heritage organizations more accessible, discoverable and usable for a wide range of audiences. To find more on health and disease in Connecticut, use the topic headings within records to extend your searches—terms such as “vaccination,” “physician*,” “epidemics,” “public health,” (to find all forms of a word, use an asterisk: "*"; enclose phrases in quotes), and the names of specific diseases or institutions. Use these terms to also locate relevant information within multi-page documents. Exploring the collections or items to which individual items belong or of which they are a part can be another way to find more resources of interest. Show less