The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is very happy to announce that 65 volumes of Mount Sinai related publications are now available on the Internet Archive and via the Medical Heritage Library collection. Continue reading
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
We’re delighted to extend our congratulations to Professor Tilli Tansey of Queen Mary’s University London on her receipt of an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the New Year’s Honours list. Continue reading
The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its seventh annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the Historical Library. Continue reading
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
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
Erich Lindemann.
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that processing of the Erich Lindemann papers is nearing completion. Continue reading
Frank B. Polk
Photo courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
Frank Polk was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University from 1982 up until his death from a brain tumor in October, 1988 at the age of 46. Continue reading
Entrance to The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Photograph courtesy of The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives.
Project staff at the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions are well into processing three of the four personal paper collections that were selected to be part of the CLIR project to process hidden special collections. Continue reading
Cover of Ambler’s logbook.
The Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery’s Office of Medical History is uploading their 1000th item to the Medical Heritage Library. Oddly enough, the item, a logbook from Dr. James Ambler, is not medical. Instead it documents polar weather conditions. Continue reading
