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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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"To use what I saw—as a 12-year-old girl—my God-given talents to help someone. Medicine seemed to me to be the most noble of endeavors."— Dr. Bernadine Healy
#OTD in 1845, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Fifty years later, his discovery of the #XRay (also known as the #Roentgen ray) changed the world and laid the foundation of modern radiology. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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Join us on Thursday, March 30th at 2:00 PM ET for the next NLM History Talk! Soha Bayoumi, PhD of Johns Hopkins University will discuss “COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic." This talk will will be live-streamed globally, and archived, by NIH VideoCasting (https://loom.ly/ILbAYPM).
For #TinyTuesday, we're featuring a #14thCentury treatise on equine veterinary medicine that just came back from the conservation lab with a brand new box, complete with a custom size compartment inside. With the added boost in height, the #EarlyManuscript will stand taller next to the other books on the shelf and avoid getting lost in the crowd.

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