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Category: For All the People

Health care reform has been associated with presidents and national leaders, but communities, workers, activists, and health care professionals have made their voices heard in the debate about whether and how to make quality health care available to all. For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform tells the lesser-known story of how movements of ordinary citizens helped shape the changing American health care system.

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Leonidas Berry and the African Methodist Episcopal Church

May 21, 2020 Circulating Now

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

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An African American man demonstrates a medical model to a group

Leonidas H. Berry, Multi-Dimensional Doctor

July 20, 2018 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript

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Inventor & Mentor: Dr. Leonidas H. Berry and the Gastroscope

July 19, 2018 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript

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Ephemera in the Dr. Leonidas H. Berry Collection

July 18, 2018 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript

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African American man (Leonidas Berry) seated at desk and looking at viewer.

Leonidas H. Berry and the Fight to Desegregate Medicine

July 17, 2018 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine provides public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982.

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Exterior view of the Savannah Health Center. An African American woman is standing by an automobile.

The Medical Civil Rights Movement and Access to Health Care

January 14, 2016 Circulating Now

Beatrix Hoffman is guest curator of the NLM exhibition, For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform. 

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U.S. Women’s Movements and Health Care Reform

December 17, 2015 Circulating Now

Feminist activists and women’s organizations have been involved in health care reform debates in the U.S. for over a century.

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For All the People

November 4, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Beatrix Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s newest exhibition, For All the People: A Century of

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Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the <em>Depressive Neurosis</em> Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the <em>Depressive Neurosis</em> Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

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This year, the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group began documenting the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts that exist to address current issues in #WomensHealth. Learn about the new Women’s Health web archive in today's Circulating Now blog post, "Documenting Women’s Health Organizations and Resources on the Web" (🔗 in bio or https://loom.ly/AR-nh5k).
Historic titles recently released through PubMed Central via NLM's partnership with the Wellcome Trust include the:
For #TitlePageTuesday, we are featuring images from Practica de Partos, a midwifery manual authored by Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel. Madama Fessel, as she was known, was a professionally trained midwife from Paris who immigrated to New Orleans, Mexico, and finally ended up in Lima in about 1820 where she founded and headed up La Maternidad, a school of midwifery. Printed in Lima in 1830, this book is one of the oldest items in the collection from Latin America that was written by a woman.
"Think boldly, don't be afraid of making mistakes, don't miss small details, keep your eyes open, and be modest in everything except your aims."--Albert Szent-Györgyi's advice to biographer Ralph Moss (1984)
Join us next week on Thursday, September 21 at 2 PM ET to welcome Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD for the 7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. In "Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care," Dr. O'Donnell will discuss the roles, expectations, and contributions of spouses of physicians in the twentieth century.
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