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Digital Connection: On Twitter

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Are you following the MHL’s Twitter feed yet?

If not, here are some of the recent stories you may have missed!

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The MHL Welcomes a New Content Contributor

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The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group was established in 1990 as the Wellcome Trust’s History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group. In October 2010 it moved to the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, where it is supported by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award to Professor Tilli Tansey. In developing and strengthening links between members of the biomedical research community and medical historians, the Group played – and continues to play – a prominent role in promoting and facilitating the study of the history of twentieth-century medicine and medical science by encouraging the creation and deposit of material sources for use by present and future historians. Continue reading

The MHL Welcomes a New Content Contributor: Emory Contributes to the Medical Heritage Library

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The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University is pleased to contribute digitized versions of over 180 titles selected from our Historical Collection to the Medical Heritage Library. Many scholars find these additions valuable for learning and research. Individual volumes in DiscoverE will include a link to these volumes. Continue reading

Dr. David Hosack: “Stormy Petrel” of American Medical Education

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Hosack P-000442

Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library

History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

Dr. David Hosack: “Stormy Petrel” of American Medical Education

By Michael Nevins, M.D., President, Medical History Society of New Jersey

Wednesday, March 13: Refreshments, 5:30; Lecture, 6pm

Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion, Room 2, 1150 St. Nicholas Ave. at West 168th St. Continue reading

Medical Heritage Library Increases Warren Museum Accessibility

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Gallery of the Warren Anatomical Museum (1906-1999), The Warren Anatomical Museum of Harvard Medical School and the Arrangement of its Collection, 1911, Warren Anatomical Museum in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Gallery of the Warren Anatomical Museum (1906-1999), The Warren Anatomical Museum of Harvard Medical School and the Arrangement of its Collection, 1911, Warren Anatomical Museum in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Recently digitized works in the Medical Heritage Library have created a window into the historical and modern collections of Harvard Medical School’s Warren Anatomical Museum. Digital surrogates of six books and pamphlets, published between 1835 and 1911, have been made available through the efforts of the Center for the History of Medicine and the National Library of Medicine. Continue reading

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia begins digitizing with Internet Archive

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The Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has just completed its first book shipment to the Internet Archive. The College is one of four sub-grantees in the NEH grant awarded to the MHL via the Open Knowledge Commons. With this shipment, The College begins digitizing over 500,000 pages of rare American medical journals, some of which only exist in a handful of libraries nationwide. Continue reading