Because you should be! We have all of our content from the 2020 10th anniversary conference up and the first of the recordings of from our Spring Speaker Series with more to come! Continue reading
My name is Anthea Skinner and I am a musicologist and archivist from Melbourne, Australia. I am also a practicing musician and a person with a disability. I am working with the Medical Heritage Library to develop a collection on disability music technology. I play in an all-disabled band called the Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra and we, and our disabled colleagues around the world, are constantly developing new techniques and technologies to support us in our… Continue reading
~ Post courtesy Krista Stracka, Rare Book Cataloger, U S National Library of Medicine The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce that we have joined Instagram! Follow @nlm_collections to see highlights from our collections that span ten centuries of global health history. First launched in 2010, Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service. With over one billion monthly users worldwide, Instagram remains one of the fastest growing social media platforms. By… Continue reading
Anyone else remember Cheaper by the Dozen? I remember shrieking with laughter over the book and the play was a real treat (done by my local theatre company when I was a teenager). The Gilbreths were a real family and Frank and Lillian real experts in their field, as I’m reminded by finding this title in among our latest uploads: Continue reading
~Update from our 2021 Education Resources Fellow, Aja Lans! Hello all! I am partway through my time as the MHL’s Education Resources Fellow and have updates on my research into race and equity in healthcare. There are discussions of sensitive topics in this blog, many of which pertain to historical discussions of members of the African diaspora. Any research pertaining to the history of race is challenging, as the meaning of “race” is constantly in… Continue reading
We’re delighted to be able to announce the first of the recorded and captioned videos from our spring speaker series held back in March and April of this year. Our first speaker was Nora O’Neill, a first-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine. She is pursuing a combined MD-PhD in the History of Science and Medicine. In 2018, she completed her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in the History of Science, focusing on the… Continue reading
Check out the cover of this manuscript notebook filled by James Rush during a lecture by his father, Benjamin Rush, sometime in the early nineteenth century. Continue reading
Rachael Gillibrand, our 2021 Jaipreet Virdi Fellow in Disability Studies, offers this look at her work half-way through her fellowship period. Hello there, I hope you’re all having a lovely summer. I can’t quite believe how quickly the summer months are flying by! Here at the Medical Heritage Library, I am already half-way through my research for the Jaipreet Virdi Fellowship in Disability Studies. So, I thought I would write a quick blog post to… Continue reading
Cover of an 1877 advertising pamphlet for Boyer’s Carmelite Melissa Cordial. Click on the image below to see the full item! Continue reading
Dominic Hall, curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School wil be speaking as part of a free webinar offered by the American Association for Anatomy on anatomical legacy collections. See more details and sign up to attend here! Continue reading
