Digitization Collaborative Provides Open Access to Over 100 Years of American Medical History through the Internet Archive

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The Medical Heritage Library has completed its National Endowment for the Humanities-funded initiative Medicine at Ground Level: State Medical Societies, State Medical Journals, and the Development of American Medicine, 1900-2000 Boston, MA, October 2, 2017. The Medical Heritage Library has released 3,907 state medical society journal volumes free of charge for nearly 50 state medical societies, including those for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, through the Internet Archive (http://www.medicalheritage.org/content/state-medical-society-journals/). The journals – collectively… Continue reading

Upcoming Lecture: Weill Cornell Medicine: a “Brief” History of Cornell’s Medical School

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~Post courtesy Lisa Mix, Head, Medical Center Archives Weill Cornell Medicine. The lecture will be followed by a reception and book-signing at the Samuel J. Wood Medical Library, 1300 York Avenue.  The Cornell Store in the Library will offer a 20% discount on purchases of Dr. Gotto’s book, Weill Cornell Medicine. Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD, DPhil, is Dean Emeritus of Weill Cornell Medicine, and Provost for Medical Affairs Emeritus of Cornell University. From 1997-2011,… Continue reading

Freud, Reich, and Radical Politics: 1927-1933 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

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Thursday, September 14, 2017 – 4:00pm Philip W. Bennett, Ph.D.: Retired Professor, Fairfield University Sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. The first in a series of four lectures given as the 2017 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine. The Colloquium offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical perspective on their… Continue reading

Embroidering Medicine Workshop

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~This post courtesy Emily Miranker, MA, Events & Projects Manager, Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health. Thursdays September 14 through October 5, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM This four-week workshop explores The New York Academy of Medicine Library’s historical collections, examining relationships between medicine, needlework, and gender. We will focus on the areas of the collection invoking the ideals of femininity and domesticity, as well as needlework (in the form… Continue reading