medicine – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:37:06 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Opium export data for New York Chamber of Commerce 1870-1912 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100013/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:53:01 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=546 Opium export data for the New York Chamber of Commerce from 1870 through 1912. Includes exports from the Port of New York and an aggregate from all other US ports by year.

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]]> Department of Health Certificate of Need Applications: Beginning 1974 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100007/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:56:50 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=589 This dataset contains listing of health care and long-term care facilities, with coverage for New York City and New York state. It is presented with minimal documentation but the structured data is informative in terms of attributes. As the original data record states, the data was extracted from Certificate of Need (CON) applications, Limited Review Applications (LRAs) and Notices submitted by…

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]]> Bodies in Transit https://newyorkscapes.org/project/bodies-in-transit/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:54:29 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/bodies-in-transit/ A transcription and data modeling project centering on the NYC Municipal Archives bodies in transit ledgers, this ongoing work looks at the individuals and officials at the heart of public health in the city in the second half of the nineteenth century. The transcriptions from the first phase of the project, conducted in the fall of 2014, have been made available to the Municipal Archives.

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]]> Digital Almshouse Project https://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:52:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ The Digital Almshouse Project captures the experiences of Irish-born patients admitted to New York’s Bellevue Almshouse between 1845 and 1852. In addition to tracing Irish-born Bellevue patients’ journeys through New York’s public health system, it also includes background on nineteenth-century immigration to New York City, a history of New York Public Health, descriptions of the population of…

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