Please join us for the next in the series of Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lectures on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 12:00 noon in the UNC Health Sciences Library, Room 527. Refreshments provided! Our speaker will be Justin Barr, MD, PhD, General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University Medical Center. Continue reading
Please join us on Thursday, November 10th at 5:30 pm in Conference Room 103-A of the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library Hammer Building for the next in the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series: Surgical Transgressions? Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, and the Controversial Artificial Heart Case of 1969. The speaker will be Shelley McKellar, Ph.D., Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario. Thursday, November 10, 2016. This series is sponsored by the Columbia University Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library and is free and open to the public! Continue reading
Do you want to attend a Halloween event that won’t affect your waistline and is free of Disney princesses and Minions? Here’s your chance! Visit the UNC Health Sciences Library on Monday, October 31 at NOON (HSL 527) to view books, photographs, and medical equipment that will make you appreciate today’s medical and dental practices. This event is also a celebration of American Archives Month and North Carolina Archives Month.
~This post is courtesy Dawne Lucas, Special Collections Librarian.
Please join us on Tuesday, October 25, at 4 p.m. for our next Trent History of Medicine Lecture Series at Duke University.
Cali Buckley will present “The History and Legacy of Ivory Anatomical Manikins.” Continue reading
Join UCSF Archives & Special Collections on Friday, October 21, at noon for a talk with Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, chief of the History of Medicine of the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest biomedical library, located on the Bethesda, Maryland, campus of the National Institutes of Health. Continue reading
Academy’s First Permanent Home: In 1875, the Academy purchased and moved into its first permanent home at 12 west 31st Street.
The New York Academy of Medicine Library began in 1847 with the intention of serving the Academy fellows, but in 1878, after the collection had expanded to include over 6,000 volumes, Academy President Samuel Purple and the Council voted to open the Library to the public. It continues to serve both the Academy fellows and the general public, providing an unprecedented level of access to a private medical collection. Today, the Academy Library is one of the most significant historical libraries in the history of medicine and public health in the world. Continue reading
Modern knowledge of human anatomy has its foundation in the work of Galen of Pergamon, a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who was born in 130 CE. Galen’s knowledge of the human body was based on two distinct sets of observations, one derived from his work as physician to gladiators in Pergamon, and the other derived from his dissection of anatomical surrogates, such as pigs and monkeys. Continue reading
So lets start with this charming figure from JH Brown’s 1865 Spectropia; or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour.
Pediatric Orthodontic Clinic at what was then called the Columbia University School of Dental & Oral Surgery (now renamed the College of Dental Medicine), ca. 1930.
The History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series presents: “A Dental School on University Lines”: The Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, 1916-2016, Allan J. Formicola, D.D.S., Professor Emeritus of Dental Medicine; Dean Emeritus of the College of Dental Medicine on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 (Lecture, 6pm; Reception and Book Signing, 7pm). Continue reading
