From Our Partners: Rawley Springs and Massanetta Mineral Springs Company

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This is one of a great series of posts from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library blog called #TravelTuesday. This post by Caitlin Angelone. Rawley Springs is an unincorporated community in Rockingham County, 9 miles west of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and was once known for its lavish medical resort. European men began to settle the land in the early 19th century. One of the earliest settlers was Benjamin Smith, who sent his wife… Continue reading

From Our Partners: Human Tissue Ethics in Anatomy, Past and Present: From Bodies to Tissues to Data

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Anatomy as a science and as an educational discipline in the medical curriculum is forever in transition. One of the greatest areas of change in recent decades has been the systematic evaluation of ethical questions in anatomy. At the center of these deliberations is the status of the dead human body, which is no longer only seen as a mere “object” or “material” of research or as an educational “tool.” Rather, it is described as… Continue reading

From Our Partners: “Explore Medieval and Renaissance Medical and Scientific Manuscripts”

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~ This post courtesy Melissa Grafe The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is pleased to announce that our medieval and Renaissance manuscript collection is now online!  The effort to digitize the manuscripts and make them freely available worldwide was generously funded by the Arcadia Fund. The manuscripts contain early medical and scientific knowledge on a variety of topics, including surgery, gynecology, medicine, herbs and remedies, anatomy, healthful living, astronomy, and mathematics.  They are handwritten in Latin, Italian, Greek,… Continue reading

2019 MHL Fellowships

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You’ve got exactly a month (and a few hours) from today to get in your application(s) for the 2019 MHL fellowships! See the project descriptions and submission information here and please share the listings far and wide! Continue reading

A Contemporary Take

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If you’ve been following medical humanities publishing news lately, you’ve probably noticed the discussion around the forthcoming biography of James Barry by EJ Levy. If you haven’t, you can get a sense of the conversation in this piece from the Guardian. The MHL doesn’t have much material on Barry, but does have a brief mention in an 1884 publication, Doctors Out of Practice from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Continue reading

From Our Partners: Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award

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Looking for funds to research at Yale’s Medical Historical Library? The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its twelfth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award. The Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven, Connecticut, holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Priestley,… Continue reading

Fellowships @ the MHL!

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We’re looking for one or more fellows to join us working on projects during the summer of 2019. Please share this post widely! MHLonArchiveSpark Development for the Digital Humanities DESCRIPTION: Hosted by one of our member institutions in New York, Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, or San Francisco, the fellow will develop a user-friendly web interface and author supporting workflows to make MHLonArchiveSpark functionality more broadly accessible to researchers and better facilitate: 1) using the MHL’s… Continue reading