The Archives received an addition to the Department of Community and Family Medicine Records documenting the Safety and Health of Working Women (SHOWW) exhibit of 1999. This project was a collaboration of academic researchers (some from the Duke Department of Community and Family Medicine) and community representatives in rural northeastern North Carolina designed to explore occupation roots of health disparities. Materials were assembled by Dr. Hester J. Lipscomb. The addition includes 14 photographs and accompanying placards, as well as 4 additional descriptive placards. Exhibit materials date to 1999.
Over the years, this department has had several name changes. From 1979 to 2019 the department was named the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Before 1979, the department was named the Department of Community Health Science, and after 2019, the name of the department changed to Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Today, the department is a diverse, robust, interdisciplinary academic department with programs focused on education and training, patient care, community health, and research and scholarship.
Department of Community and Family Medicine Records house the administrative records of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. This collection contains correspondence, reports, budgets, minutes, writings, planning materials, news releases, clippings, rosters, course and curriculum materials, residency and internship materials, evaluations, surveys, committee materials, field reports, award information, plaques, artwork, photographic materials, audiovisual materials, exhibit materials, and digital files.
[Daily medications of a former poultry plant worker
Edgecombe County, NC
I was a healthy woman when I walked in that place. Came out all messed up. Anybody start getting sick, going to the nurse, spending a lot of money with the insurance company, going to the doctor frequently, they going to try to find a way to get rid of you. They gonna get you out of there. I know that for a face. But you have bills, responsibility.]
[Twenty years of service; pills and a golden chicken pin
Hobgood, NC
They give you this little golden pin, it had a chicken symbol on it, a lapel [pin]. They gave me this big plaque, saying that you went there twenty years. And this little chicken trophy, I left it in the car for days. I can’t say it was special, but I just felt like it was something they throwed together, because they have done better [for other employees].
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This blog post was contributed by Medical Center Archives Assistant Director Lucy Waldrop.