We’re in the last stages of our state medical society journals project and you can see a full list broken down by state and date here. We’re still filling gaps, so the list is still in the process of being updated as our partners add in more journals. So check back regularly if the year you’re looking for isn’t there! Continue reading
~This post courtesy Andra Pham, Records Management Assistant, Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library. Join us for an evening discussion on the life and career of Linda Francis James Benitt, the first female graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The presentation will begin by briefly exploring the context of women at Harvard at the turn of century, as well as Linda James’ life in Boston as a young… Continue reading
From Darwin DeForrest Douglass’ The Douglass patent artificial limbs (1865). Continue reading
~This post courtesy Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Reference Librarian, Massachusetts Historical Society. Each summer, the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Center for Teaching History hosts a series of workshops for K-12 teachers seeking to incorporate primary sources and contemporary historical scholarship into their curriculum. For the first time this year, the Center offered a three-day workshop in teaching LGBT History. As one of the Society’s reference librarians, with some background in history of sexuality research, I volunteered to spend… Continue reading
~This post courtesy Dawne Lucas, Special Collections Librarian Health Sciences Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Fall semester schedule is below. All meetings will be held at noon, in HSL 527. For more information about the Bullitt History of Medicine Club, please visithttps://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc. Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Travis Alexander, Mellon Graduate Fellow, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill “AIDS and the Americans with Disabilities Act at Quarter Century” This talk will… Continue reading
From William Snowdon Hedley’s Therapeutic electricity and practical muscle testing (1900). Continue reading
This Friday, check out the series of oral interviews done for the history of the Tulane University Department of Psychiatry and Neurology! Continue reading
From the Eva Walden Scrapbook (undated). Continue reading
On Tues., Aug. 22, from 6-7 p.m., the National Museum of Health and Medicine will host a presentation by Prof. Robin Cookie, an Australian pathologist, who has reviewed preserved lung specimens from casualties of gas poisoning during World War I. Prof. Cooke will talk about how microscopic examination of 100-year-old lung tissue may help inform today’s military medical researchers prepare to treat chemical warfare casualties in the future. Free. Open to the public. Web link… Continue reading
From John Gordon’s Engravings of the skeleton of the human body (1818). Continue reading
