The Medical Heritage Library wants your feedback!

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The Medical Heritage Library is gearing up for its next round of strategic planning. To ensure that we’re meeting the needs of our users, we need to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to take our short survey and let us know how you’re finding and using  MHL content and what you think our priorities should be. Don’t know about the Medical Heritage Library? Even better! We’re a digital curation collaborative among some… Continue reading

From Our Partners: Base Hospital No. 30, One Hundred Years Later – Part One: Organization, Mobilization, and Travel

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~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 today, April 24, 1918, the 240 men and women of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 30—the University of California School of Medicine Unit—left American soil to support the war effort by operating a modern hospital in France. Their stories survive in the UCSF Archives &… Continue reading

A Contagious Cause: The Search for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of American Biomedicine

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~This post courtesy Emily Gustainis, Deputy Director, Center for the History of Medicine of the Francis A. Countway Library at the Harvard Medical School. Register now via EventBrite! The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, invites you to join us for the lecture A Contagious Cause: The Search for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of American Biomedicine with Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Leo Marx Career Development Professor in History and… Continue reading

“Reading Vesalius Across the Ages” and Annual Celebration of the Library

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~Post courtesy ALLISON E. PIAZZA, MLIS, Reference Services and Outreach Librarian at the New York Academy of Medicine Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:30PM-8:00PM Venue: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029 Cost: Free; advance registration required Friends of the Rare Book Room are invited to a private reception with the speaker prior to the event; please email emiranker@nyam.org if you wish to attend.   REGISTER  … Continue reading