An interview with Randall Sell on his NLM History Talk and his work related to early sexual and gender minority history.
Category: Collections
Posts highlighting the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine
The Public Health Film Goes to War
Explore a new addition to Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM, a curated, freely-accessible portal exploring digitized historical titles from the Library’s world-renowned audiovisuals collection.
A Materia Medica Animalia, 1853
By Harriet Ritvo ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This is a rare book in several senses. Not only
Remembering Mothers
By Nicole Baker ~ In 1935 Louis I. Dublin, Ph.D., a vice president and statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, published “Lost Mothers,” an
Global Medicine in China and Taiwan: A Diasporic History
An interview with Wayne Soon on his NLM History Talk and his work on the Chinese diaspora.
Vegetable Soup: An Enduring and Accessible Legacy
Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Rachel Curtis, Monica Gray, Laura Montgomery, and Miranda Villesvik, along with our own Jeffrey S. Reznick, to share details of
NLM Collections Tour: Climate and Health
Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about Climate and Health.
A Child Went Forth, 1942
By Sarah Eilers ~ The 1942 film A Child Went Forth is charming, reassuring, earthy, poetic. In the opening black and white sequence, young children
Picturing Health for All on World Health Day
By Erika Mills~ World Health Day happens on April 7th every year, marking the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). For
Dr. Windsor: Gentleman Collector of Rare Medical Books
By Anne Rothfeld ~ What motivates a rare book collector? A medical professional naturally accumulates an array of reference books particularly around their specialization. But