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 race and equity in health and healthcare. Continue reading
With Beth Lander, Jonathan Jones, and Whitney Arnold. Continue reading
Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Libraryis pleased to share information about the Boston Medical Library’s 17th Annual J. Worth Estes Lecture 1980s Biological Revolution in Psychiatry: What Really Happened, and What Really Happened Next, with Anne Harrington, Ph.D. Dr. Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, and is the author of four books, including Re-enchanted Science, The Cure Within, and Mind Fixers. Register here. The 1980’s saw a rapid pivot… Continue reading
Featuring Catherine DeRose, Peter Leonard, Krista Stracka, Kate Tasker, and Rachel Taketa. Continue reading
Last week any of you who tried to click on the video for the first session of our 2020 conference may have noticed quite a few technical difficulties. We’d like to apologize for those — we’re new to offering content on YouTube — and offer this corrected version! Continue reading
We’re delighted to be able to release our second conference video this week: session one, chaired by Robin Naughton and with presenters Hélène Cazes and Amber Hinde! Continue reading
We’re delighted to be able to make public the first video from our November conference, Jaipreet Virdi’s keynote: Digitized Disability Histories. Continue reading
Notes taken on Benjamin Rush’s medical lectures, sometime between 1791 and 1810: Continue reading
Change is constant. Whether socio-cultural, economic, scientific, political, ecological, environmental, or technological, drivers of change — and change itself — are critical to how we function in our roles as librarians, archivists, and museum professionals. In the realm of professional practice, sometimes these changes are so considerable they fundamentally challenge existing concepts of who we are as professionals, what the impact of our work is, and how we engage our constituencies. They represent a paradigm… Continue reading
Happy January! We got a bunch of new items from the For the Health of the New Nation project from PACSCL just before break and it’s very exciting! Check this out, for example: Continue reading
