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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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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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The Medical Civil Rights Movement and Access to Health Care

January 14, 2016 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Beatrix Hoffman. Dr. Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s most recent exhibition,

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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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This still from the CDC's 1962 film titled 'The Nurse Combats Disease' shows a nurse washing her hands with soap as one method to prevent the spread of pathogens. NLM's audiovisual collection includes many titles like this one that promote #handwashing habits. View the 12-minute program in NLM Digital Collections: https://loom.ly/ymOoeYo.
Happy #WorldAnatomyDay! Celebrate by exploring NLM's Dream Anatomy online exhibition (https://loom.ly/C7CG2Uw).
With National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week coming up, this week's Circulating Now blog post by Erika Mills explores an NLM exhibition about the history of community action against the dangers of lead: https://loom.ly/zTQlPUA (link also in bio).
In honor of #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, we are featuring a milestone in the surgical management of cancer. #OnThisDay in 1804, Japanese surgeon Seishū Hanaoka performed the first successful surgical treatment of breast cancer under general anesthesia. This hand-colored picture from Hanaoka's 'Kishitsu geryō zukan' (circa 1825) shows the excision of a cancerous tumor from a patient's breast. Visit https://loom.ly/BmYEvyU to explore his Surgical casebook on NLM's Historical Anatomies on the Web (link also in bio).
We're popping by to share "Bubbles of Life Burst by Death," an illustration from the second volume of 'Death's doings' by English painter and illustrator Richard Dagley (2nd edition, Boston, 1828). The playful yet unsettling scene accompanies the sonnet "Death, the Sage, and the Fool" by Randolph Fitz-Eustace. Visit https://loom.ly/swc0T0k to explore in NLM Digital Collections.
For #WorldArthritisDay, we are featuring a still from the patient instructional film 'One of sixteen million' (Arthritis Foundation, 1968) from our historical audiovisual collection. Watch the fully captioned film on the NLM YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/FSJezezpEKs (#LinkInBio).

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