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Patient Records Survey

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As part of a joint effort to develop best practices for enabling access to special collections containing protected health information (PHI) and other types of access-protected (“restricted”) records, the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, and the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions are conducting a survey to determine what information researchers need to determine whether or not to pursue access to restricted health records, such as medical records, psychiatric/mental health records, and photographs taken as part of medical treatments. Continue reading

The MHL at the HSS

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The weekend before Thanksgiving, we were delighted to be a part of the 2013 History of Science Society meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Kathryn Hammond-Baker (from the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library) and Hanna Clutterbuck (Project Co-ordinator for the MHL) staffed our table on Friday and Saturday, giving out candy, postcards, and chatting with conference attendees about the MHL. Continue reading

Tracing the Footsteps of a Giant

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Barbara Starfield in Venice, Italy for the 23rd Patient Classification Systems/International Conference November 8, 2007. Photo is courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives

Barbara Starfield in Venice, Italy for the 23rd Patient Classification Systems/International Conference November 8, 2007. Photo is courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives

Staring up at the 76 boxes in Barbara Starfield’s collection occupying an entire wall of shelving—or 91 cubic feet—in the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, I immediately wondered how I would ever be able to piece together the life’s work of a world-renowned researcher and academic.  Continue reading

“Have you Heard about the Hardys?”

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Miriam Pauls Hardy Photo is courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives

Miriam Pauls Hardy
Photo is courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives

I am entering into my third year of graduate study in history at Johns Hopkins.  As a graduate student in the early stages of dissertation research, my experience working with the William G. and Miriam P. Hardy Collection has been an interesting and instructive one. Continue reading