As part of our transition to being an incorporated entity, we are redesigning our social media plan. That includes this website. So please pardon any oddities you see over the next few weeks as we move things around and try things out. Continue reading
Have you taken our 2018 user survey yet? If you haven’t, please do! This is the information that will help us plan our future! Continue reading
The NYPL has a podcast about the history of Blackwell’s (now known as Roosevelt Island), based off a recently published history by Stacy Horn: Before there was Rikers Island, there was Blackwell’s—today known as Roosevelt Island. Historian Stacy Horn‘s newest book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York is the first in-depth look at its dark past. In addition to a penitentiary, the small strip of land housed an almshouse, mental institution, and a… Continue reading
~This post is courtesy Polina Ilieva, UCSF Archivist. This is a guest post by Aaron J. Jackson, PhD student, UCSF Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. One hundred years ago, the men and women of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 30—the University of California School of Medicine Unit—arrived in France to support the American war effort after more than a year of preparation in the United States. They had already faced many challenges by the… Continue reading
Remedies for the wrongs of women, Associate Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women (1844). Continue reading
~This post is courtesy Polina Ilieva, UCSF Archivist. The Premise: Many within the scholarly community have been trying to achieve a large-scale transition to open access (“OA”) to scholarly literature for nearly twenty years. To date, only around 15% of peer-reviewed journal articles are published in fully open-access journals. At this rate, realizing a full OA scholarly universe could take decades. If we within the research community are going to accelerate progress toward free readership for all, we… Continue reading
Did you know that the Wellcome Library is making available a treasure trove of public health information in the Medical Officer of Health reports? There are thousands of reports from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries covering a wide geographic area across the United Kingdom. Continue reading
A member of the 2018 program committee, John Rees, established an Open Science Framework (OSF) repository for abstracts, slides, presentations, and other relevant data from the 2018 meeting of ALHHS. All contributions are voluntary and you can see them all here. Continue reading
~Post courtesy Stephen Greenberg, Section HEad, Rare Books and Early Manuscripts, History of Medicine Division. You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held Thursday, May 24, from 2 pm to 3:00pm in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. This special program will be the second annual NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine, honors the legacy of Dr.… Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that the Medical Heritage Library is now the Medical Heritage Library, Inc.! Thanks to the unceasing efforts of our working group and the kind donation of pro bono hours from a Philadelphia law firm, we are now formally incorporated. Stay tuned for more news about what this means for the future of the MHL but rest assured: our collections will remain free and readily accessible. Continue reading
