By Michael Kronenfeld and Jennie J. Kronenfeld ~ Since the late 1990, Al Gore has been ridiculed for supposedly claiming to have invented the Internet.
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How We Help the Body Breathe
By Vicky Pohlen ~ The concept of artificial ventilation dates back to ancient history, although the earliest references to it are vague and conflicting. Stories
Revealing Data: Dr. James Herrick and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at
When People are Data: How Medical History Matters for Our Digital Age
Joanna Radin, Ph.D. will speak on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM ET. This program will be live-streamed globally, and archived, by NIH VideoCasting.
Seeking Leek Island: An Interview with Pamela Robertson
In 2019, Circulating Now published two blog posts about a scrapbook NLM had recently acquired. One post related the history of Leek Island Military Hospital
Leonidas Berry and the African Methodist Episcopal Church
By Kaveri Curlin ~ Dr. Leonidas Berry was born into a strong religious tradition. According to his 1982 autobiography I Wouln’t Take Nothin’ For My
Nightingale: Lady and Legend
By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Some people seem not quite real. Not in the sense that they are imaginary, fictional beings; they existed, and they
Relics of the Infectious Past: Disease Warning Sign Collection
By Charles Rosenberg ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. The history of public health cannot be understood without artifacts
“The World’s First Public Health Emergency of International Concern”
On April 25, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2009 H1N1 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Screening the Nurse: Film, Fear, and Narrative from the 1940s to the 1970s
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger David Cantor, PhD, an investigador (researcher) at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires Argentina and an