We’re pleased to offer the third part of Dr. Shrady Says by Tom Ewing, Sinclair Ewing-Nelson, and Veronica Kimmerly. You can read Part One and Part Two on the blog and learn more about the Russian Flu project on the project website. Close reading allows for insightful interpretation of the content, purpose, and structure of texts on a small scale; visualization tools allow for general interpretations of content on a large scale. Neither approach, however, indicates how readers… Continue reading

We’re pleased to offer this post from Phoebe Evans Letocha, Collections Management Archivist at the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. “We believe that war nurses can best serve humanity by arousing in the minds of men and women a deadly hatred of war, and that the most effective method of accomplishing this end is by making public the kind of things war nurses see.” (From Johns Hopkins Nurses Alumnae Magazine October 1914… Continue reading

Today we are pleased to continue with our three-part series from Tom Ewing, Sinclair Ewing-Nelson, and Veronica Kimmerly. Part Two: “The Epidemic of Influenza” as an Editorial Intervention On January 4, 1890, the Medical Record first noticed that the disease had reached the United States by publishing first-hand accounts by two New York City doctors of influenza cases under their care. Continue reading

We are pleased to present the first in a three-part series by E. Thomas Ewing, Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Sinclair Ewing-Nelson, a student of applied math and history of science and medicine at Yale University and Veronica Kimmerly, who graduated from Virginia Tech in 2014, with degrees in math, German, and engineering, and is now studying in a graduate program at Edinburgh University in Scotland.… Continue reading