From Our Partners: Normalizing Sex Research and Education in America: Robert Latou Dickinson in Perspective

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~This post courtesy Emily Gustainis, Deputy Director, Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Harvard Medical School and vice-president of the Medical Heritage Library, Inc. Physician Robert Latou Dickinson (1861–1950) resists categorization. He was a long-time obstetrician and gynecologist; a research scientist invested in sexual health who influenced Alfred Kinsey and notions of sexuality; a birth control and reproductive sterilization advocate; an anatomist who authored an influential atlas of… Continue reading

“Ever-evolving: introducing the Medical Heritage Library, Inc.”

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We’re delighted to announce that our vice-president, Emily Gustainis, has published a new article in the Journal of the Medical Library Association about the MHL: The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. (MHL), is a collaborative digitization and discovery organization committed to providing open access to history of medicine and health resources. Since its founding in 2010, it has aspired to be a visible, research-driven history of medicine and health community that serves a broad, interdisciplinary constituency.… Continue reading

MHL on Flickr

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Have you checked out our image collection yet? We’ve been running a harvester through the MHL collections pulling out all the images and collecting them on Flickr for easy use. There are over 2 million images there now and we’re only through the nineteenth century! Have a look and let us know what you think! Continue reading

Call for Proposals: Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

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~This post courtesy Polina Ilieva, Head of Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco. Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic is an interdisciplinary symposium exploring and reflecting on topics related to archives and the practice of documenting the stories of HIV/AIDS.  The task of documenting the history of HIV/AIDS and thinking about the present and future of the epidemic is daunting. The enormity and complexity of the stories and perspectives on the… Continue reading