April 20, 2021 by Bill Platt Anthropology of medicine class explores historic epidemics under COVID restrictions. (Photo by Robert Gill) PreviousNext In a normal year, Associate Professor Sienna Craig's first-year seminar, "The Values of Medicine," exploring the history of western medicine across centuries, through an anthropological lens, would have brought students to Dartmouth Library's Rauner Special Collections Library to research rare manuscripts and artifacts, such as a book written by a witness to the 1665 London plague; public health handbills and posters from the 1832 cholera epidemic; and popular magazine advertisements from the late 19th-century related to female "hysteria." Under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the winter-term class still did original research in the collection, except that the students were encountering the materials from across campus or around the globe, and their four culminating projects are now on display digitally rather than on the second floor of Rauner.