New to our collections this week (or late last week to be specific), are runs of the Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie from the 1890s through the 1930s and Janus: Archives internationales pour l’histoire de la médecine et pour la géographie médicale from the 1890s through the 1940s. Continue reading
The cover of an advertisement booklet for the Maison de Santé de Picpus in Paris; there’s no date in the metadata for the item but it has a late nineteenth century look to me. Continue reading
And our second fellow introduces herself! Hello all, my name is Aja Lans and I am excited to be assisting the Medical Heritage Library as an Educational Resources Fellow. I will be developing collections on race and equity in health and healthcare, which is a major focus of my academic research. In addition to spending my summer working with the MHL collections, I am preparing to defend my doctoral dissertation, “♀ Negro: Embodied Experiences of… Continue reading
We are delighted to open the blog to our 2021 Jaipreet Virdi Fellow in Disability Studies, Rachael Gillibrand Hello there, my name’s Rachael and I’m delighted to introduce myself as the Medical Heritage Library’s Jaipreet Virdi 2021 Fellow in Disability Studies. As a Fellow, I will be working with the Medical Heritage Library to curate new collections of primary sources on the topic of ‘Disability and Technology’. These will be made available online, so keep… Continue reading
And last but not least: the video with corrected captions of our last 2020 fall conference session! Continue reading
ABOUT US:The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. (MHL) is a collaborative digitization and discovery organization of some of the world’s leading medical libraries committed to providing open access to resources in the history of healthcare and health sciences. The MHL’s goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and to strengthen understanding of the… Continue reading
Fri, April 23, 202112:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDTRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-speaker-series-elizabeth-mcneill-tickets-143312530637 The 19th-century origins of studying animal behavior is commonly traced back to Darwin’s experiments in the late 1830s at the London Zoological Gardens with the aim of researching mental evolutionism. Inthis talk, McNeill complicates this origin story by re-situating it within the 19th-century history of psychology in the German-speaking world and, more specifically, the slow, contentious rise of animal psychology as a viable object and… Continue reading
Please join the Medical Heritage Library, Inc. for the third talk in our Spring Speaker Series! WhenFri, April 9, 202112:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-speaker-series-sarah-l-berry-tickets-143311824525 Racial disparities in health and medical care have been highlighted by the current pandemic, but they have long roots in U.S. history. Teaching and researching this history is important for moving forward with restorative justice and health equity. A particularly rich starting point is “Black Museum,” a… Continue reading
About this Event Please join the Medical Heritage Library, Inc. for the first in our Spring Speaker Series! WhenFri, March 26, 202112:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT How to Register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-speaker-series-nora-oneill-tickets-143307467493 After World War I, as 200,000 military members returned home with a disability, the US government standardized rehabilitation programs for the first time. The consolidation of rehabilitative services by the government resulted in a consistent definition of disability and ability, one which was intimately… Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library seeks a motivated fellow to assist in the continuing development of our education and outreach programs. Under the guidance of a member of our governance board, the fellow will develop curated collections or sets for the MHL website on the topic of disability and medical technologies. Continue reading
