New to the MHL!

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The MC Migel Library of the American Printing House for the Blind has been adding lots of great new items recently. Here are just a few: Over forty annual reports from the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness Two annual reports from the Pittsburgh Blind Association Reports from the Pennsylvania Home Teaching Society and Free Circulating Library for the Blind Additionally, the Wellcome Library has been adding lots of titles to its collection of medical officer of… Continue reading

#ColorOurCollections 2017!

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We’re very excited to be working on our pages for #ColorOurCollections 2017! Get your crayons and colored pencils ready! #ColorOurCollections will be back Feb 6-10, 2017. Institutions, more info to come. pic.twitter.com/pdIsDiuZnU — NYAMHistory (@NYAMHistory) January 6, 2017 If you’d like something to work on ’til February, check out NYAM’s Pinterest gathering of coloring pages — blank and completed by artists! There was also this very interesting piece from Jill O’Neill at the Scholarly Kitchen with… Continue reading

Johns Hopkins’ Legacy for Nursing Education

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~This post courtesy of Phoebe Evans Letocha, Collections Management Archivist, Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. As 2016 comes to a close, we gather to honor the life and legacy of Mr. Johns Hopkins on this 143rd anniversary of his death. Let us pay special attention to his legacy for nursing education. 1873, the year of Mr. Hopkins’ death, was also a momentous year for the birth of professional nursing in America.… Continue reading

Searching Tobacco Archives: Sports and Chewing Tobacco

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~This post courtesy Allen Smoot, UCSF Archives Intern. As an intern for the UCSF Archives, I’ve been working on digitized state medical society journals and tobacco control collections. At UCSF, the Archives and the Industry Documents Library both house immense collections of tobacco-related material. In the Industry Documents Library there are millions of documents from tobacco companies about their manufacturing, marketing, and scientific research.  I narrowed in on chewing tobacco and how it became popular in the sporting world. Continue reading

UCSF Archives Talk: What Will It Take to End AIDS?

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Join UCSF Archives & Special Collections for an afternoon talk Wednesday, January 11 at 12:30 – 1:45 pm in the N-217 Auditorium at 513 Parnassus Avenue with the Pulitzer Center supported journalists Jon Cohen, Amy Maxmen and Misha Friedman as they discuss their reporting on HIV/AIDS around the globe featured in the ebook, To End AIDS. Each journalist illuminates previously under-covered areas of HIV/AIDS reporting and aims to help us think critically.  In this panel discussion we explore… Continue reading

The Death of Albert

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This post is courtesy Joan Thomas, Rare Books Cataloger at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine of Harvard Medical School. On December 14th, 1861, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria, succumbed to a lingering illness that doctors diagnosed as typhoid fever. There has been speculation that Albert may in fact have died of Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, both of which involve… Continue reading

Deaf Education- Celebrating the legacy of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

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~This post courtesy Katie Healey and Caroline Lieffers, doctoral students in Yale’s Program for the History of Science and Medicine, with additions by Melissa Grafe, John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, Head of the Medical Historical Library. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, instrumental in the establishment of the first permanent school for deaf children in the United States, was born on December 10th, 1787. The popular account of the school’s founding states that in 1814, the young Reverend Gallaudet… Continue reading