Check out this training film from the 1978 U S Naval Health Sciences Education and Training Command!
Primary Source Sets
MHL Collections
Reference Shelves
Author: Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook
Oh My!
A frisky little number was added to our collection recently: The conjugal directory, or, The joys of hymen: a poem: in three books!
Thanks!
We’d like to extend our thanks to everyone who submitted an application for our 2023 fellowship program.
All the applications have been forwarded to our fellowship committee who will be reviewing and sending out requests for interviews as soon as they can.
If you have any questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to ask at medicalheritage@gmail.com.
“La Gardienne du Phare”
Come Work With Us!
Have you used any of our primary source sets? They’re wonderful introductions to all the resources we have on the Internet Archive and we’d love to have you, as a summer fellow, create new ones for us!
Get your application in by April 7 and work with us this summer to create a set on mental health and illness!
The Book of Bread
From Owen Simmons’s 1913 The Book of Bread — lots of good stuff in here! I’m a pretty good baker and I’ve never heard of ‘scalded flour’!
Deadline Extended!
We’re extending the deadline for applications for our two summer fellowship positions to April 7 2023!
We want an Education Resources fellow: “Under the guidance of a member of our governance board, the fellow will develop a curated collection or sets for the MHL website on the topic of mental health and illness. Examples of existing primary source sets can be found on the MHL website: http://www.medicalheritage.org/resource-sets/. These collections will be drawn from the over 300,000 items in our Internet Archive library. The curated collections provide a means for our visitors to discover the richness of MHL materials on a variety of topics relevant to the history of health and the health sciences. As part of this work, the fellow may have an opportunity to enrich metadata in MHL records in Internet Archive to support scholarship and inquiry on this topic.”
And we want an Outreach fellow: “The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) seeks a fellow to develop and organize the planning of the MHL’s Biennial Conference. Collaborating with the MHL President, the MHL Project Co-ordinator, and/or the MHL Governance group, the fellow will help plan a virtual conference to take place on November 3, 2023. The fellow will develop a suite of content to support the theme of this year’s conference, which will focus on LGBTQ+ health care. The fellow will help develop the program of the conference, draft the Call for Papers, help create themes, help identify and recruit speakers, work on outreach, logistics, and organization, and create a program for the conference. The fellow will also liaise with MHL partners, including the DPLA and Internet Archive, for possible programming or publicity. Working with our Co-ordinator, the fellow will launch a social media campaign for the conference.”
Please apply if you’re eligible and share this call widely among your colleagues, students, and professional networks!
Travellers’ Music
I don’t think we have many items in the collection that include music, but William Kitchiner’s 1827 The traveller’s oracle includes seven songs!
“The philosophy of sleep”
Perhaps less of a “philosophy” — which implies a systematization — and more of a “description”, Robert Macnish’s 1836 volume is heavily influenced by phrenological thought and full of great anecdotes of dreams and nightmares.
Flip through it here or on the item’s page in our collection.
Fellowship Applications Open!
We’re looking for two fellows for the summer of 2023: one to help us with planning a conference in the fall and the other to work on creating primary source sets on mental health and illness.
Please submit your applications as soon as possible! The window closes on March 27th when we will begin reviewing and interviewing!