…and to all a good night!

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We want to take the opportunity of this last post of 2020 to thank you all for your support and enthusiasm over the year. It hasn’t been an easy year by any means but we managed to hold our very first online conference thanks to all of you and we’re very proud. Watch this space for videos and transcripts coming in early January! We hope you all get some vacation time between now and January… Continue reading

From Our Partners: ‘The Fourth Estate in Medicine’: The History of the Medical Journal and the Medical Profession in the United States, 1797-Present’

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This Thursday, check out the fourth (and final) lecture of the Fall 2020 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine: ‘The Fourth Estate in Medicine’: The History of the Medical Journal and the Medical Profession in the United States, 1797-Present’ with speaker Scott H. Podolsky, M.D., Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Podolsky is a historian of… Continue reading

New to the MHL!

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Our partners at the Wellcome have been adding all kinds of good things to our collection, including runs of the Dublin journal of medical science, the Annual of the universal medical sciences, the Half-yearly abstract of the medical sciences, and the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay. Check out everything that has been recently uploaded to our collection here. Continue reading

From Our Partners: Medica

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~Post courtesy Solenne Coutagne, manager of digital projects at BIU Santé There is another anniversary this autumn, in addition to the anniversary of MHL. The BIU Santé celebrates the 20th anniversary of Medica, our digital library (https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/medica/index.php). Festivities will include: –          A blog post on the history of this digital library by the people who worked on its creation and enrichment. –          An Advent calendar featuring 20 noteworthy digitizations –          A guestbook (in the form of a blog… Continue reading

The MHL On….

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…turkey! The disambiguation gets a leetle ambiguated here, since the search doesn’t know if you’re talking about Turkey (the country), turkey (the bird), some other geographical feature including the word ‘turkey,’ or a colloquial use of ‘turkey,’ such as ‘talk turkey.’ You’ll also notice we have some texts in Turkish which is very awesome and gives yet another layer of results to the whole set. Continue reading

Thank You!

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We would like to thank all our great speakers who showed up last Friday to make our first conference great! It was wonderful to hear about so many projects making amazing use of our resources; we can’t wait to hear how every one develops in the future. Thank you also to everyone who showed up to participate and ask questions — it wouldn’t have been the same day without you. If you missed the live… Continue reading

Thursday!

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You have until Thursday to grab your free ticket for our 10th anniversary conference. The conference runs from 11 to 5 (EST) and you can check out the full program with links to all the abstracts below! 11:00am-12:00pmWelcome and Keynote  Welcome: Emily R. Novak Gustainis, President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jaipreet… Continue reading