Field of medicine concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease.
The Rare Book Collections of the McGovern Historical Center contains titles in these main collecting areas: history of medicine; dentistry; gout, rheumatism & arthritis; public health, medical education, and psychiatry & mental health. The books date from the 1490s to the 20th century. The collection covers a wide-range of topics from folk remedies to the works of Sir William Osler, the father of modern medicine.
