Our new website just needs the last few polishing touches before we give a grand tour! We’ve made lots of changes and we’re very excited.
In the meantime, if you come across a link that doesn’t link or an email that doesn’t email, please do tell us: @medicalheritage (Twitter) or medicalheritage @ gmail . com!
You may remember last week I wrote a brief post about my own efforts to track down materials in the MHL related to Benjamin Rush. I’ve spent a little time with the resources I found and, so far, William Cobbett’s 1801 The Rush-light is my favorite.
My professional training as a historian was in the field of modern Irish history (republican nationalism specifically) so every day I work with the MHL is an opportunity to learn more history of medicine.
Recently I’ve been reading Benjamin Park’s excellent first publication American Nationalisms which addresses the question of the lived — written, drawn, eaten, played — experience of nationalism among three particular communities in the early American republic: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. With these as his areas of study, Park could hardly hope to avoid Benjamin Rush!
Knowing that Rush was an early American physician, noted for having an extended wrangle with William Cobbett, and with something of a reputation in later years for his ‘heroic’ style of medicine (which often involved copious bleedings), I thought we must have something on him in our collections.
We’re sorry to report that our full-text search tool is experiencing some technical difficulties. We’re working as fast as we can and will let you know when it’s back up and running!
Our partners at the M C Migel Memorial Collection and Library have uploaded a ton of new material related to guide dogs for the visually impaired. Check out all the titles here!
We’ve been working on a new look for the website all summer and we’re just about ready to roll it out. All our URLs are going to stay the same, as will all our social media accounts, so you don’t need to worry about updating anything or changing any bookmarks.
We’re going to be rolling out the changes over the next two weeks, starting with the small stuff and working up to a full redesign of our front page which we’re very excited about!
So we ask you to bear with our dust as we work out the kinks of taking our new design live. If anything seems seriously out of order, though, please don’t hesitate to be in touch: medicalheritage (at) gmail (dot) com. And thanks in advance for your patience!
With the start of the new school year rapidly approaching — and even just past in some places! — HC Cameron’s 1923 The Nervous Child seemed like an appropriate pick for the week:
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Check it out: Harvey Cushing’s 1943 Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius:
The New York Academy of Medicine is currently accepting applications for both of their fellowships — the application period closes on August 23, 2019.
The Helfand Fellowship supports research using Academy library resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine and public health. It is intended specifically for a scholar in residence at the Academy Library. While all proposals will be thoroughly considered, preference will be given to applications that include an emphasis on the use of visual materials held in the Academy collections and in other area institutions.
The Klemperer Fellowship supports research using the Academy Library’s resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine. It is intended specifically for a scholar in residence at the Academy Library.
