February 24, 2021
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces Outside the house/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Wellbeing Treatment in the United States, a new on the net exhibition.
Visitor curated by historian and educator Beatrix Hoffman, PhD, Northern Illinois College, Outside the house/Inside mostly characteristics objects from the NLM historical collections and explores the history of thoughts about immigrant health and immigrants’ and migrants’ ordeals with U.S. health treatment since the late 1800s. Wellbeing treatment and drugs have performed a part in inclusion and exclusion, in “assimilation” and discrimination, in dividing communities and strengthening them. The history portrayed in this exhibition reminds us that we all share a want to shield our health and very well-getting.
The on the net exhibition includes an schooling part featuring a K-twelve lesson program and a college module created by the visitor curator. The electronic gallery showcases a photograph album from the thirties produced by and depicting viewing nurses from the Henry Avenue Settlement social assistance company, at perform caring for an immigrant community in the Bronx. This selection of illustrations or photos is also out there in its entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
The Henry Avenue Viewing Nurse Support brought helpful health treatment to immigrants in their residences and their communities
Greenwich Mothers’ Club of the Henry Avenue Settlement, Reduce East Side, New York Town, ca. 1932
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Wellbeing Aide Dorthy Push visits a migrant loved ones in migrant workers’ camp outdoors Nassawadox, Virginia, photograph by Janet Ochs for Community Wellbeing Support Planet, 1966
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Migrant workers and their households, who reside on the go, encounter many hurdles to getting treatment. In 1985, nurses and physicians dedicated to improving health treatment for migrant farmers shaped the grassroots-based mostly Migrant Clinicians Network.
Associates for Wellbeing: Compañeros En La Salud!, Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin, Texas, late twentieth century
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The Union Wellbeing Middle was opened in 1913 by the Worldwide Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to provide its largely Jewish and Italian immigrant membership. Like Henry Avenue, the UHC believed that workers’ rights involved a right to medical treatment and risk-free operating disorders. It is however in operation now
Triennial Report: 1947–1949, Union Wellbeing Middle, New York, ca. 1950
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