Guests – Circulating Now from NLM

Composite of stills from a film It Takes Your Breath Away showing pollution and its impact on health.

Air Pollution is a Human Problem: Mary Catterall’s Campaign for a Livable Leeds

February 4, 2021 Circulating Now

Angela Saward, Wellcome Collection, London, discusses the 1964 British public health film It Takes Your Breath Away.

Detail from a poster with the portraits of 8 people from various racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Founding and Future: 50 Years of the NIAAA

December 31, 2020 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Laura C. Manella and Gregory K. Roa from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to celebrate the

Postcard art shows people reacting with disgust as a person in a shop sneezes openly.

Airborne Infection Control in 20-Century Peace and War

November 19, 2020 Circulating Now

By Tom Quick ~ The world can change unexpectedly in times of crisis. This story begins, like so many histories of medicine, with an illness.

Men wearing white cloth masks lay on wooden cots under wool blankets.

Revealing Data: Flu Masks on Ships, 1918

November 11, 2020 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Ariel Ludwig, Jessica Brabble, and E. Thomas Ewing, from Virginia Tech to explore the use of masks on World War

Detail of printed heading reading De Ponderatione Insensibilis perspirationis.

Revealing Data: Ars de Statica Medicina, 1614

November 5, 2020 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Caterina Agostini, who discusses a recent acquisition at the NLM History of Medicine Division’s collection: the Ars de statica medicina

An older man in a bowler hat labeled "The Public" points to a hankerchief as a young boy prepares to sneeze.

Droplet Infection Explained in Pictures

October 22, 2020 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Katherine Randall, Linsey C. Marr, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to explore the history of public health messaging during the 1918 influenza epidemic.

A typewritten page with an illustration of a mosque, rising sun, and palm trees.

DeBakey in the Middle East

October 1, 2020 Circulating Now

By Sara Farhan ~ The Fourth Annual Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA), hosted by the American University of Beirut, took place in Lebanon in April

Brown smoke comes out of tall pipes from an industrial area behind a brick building in a grassy landscape.

Darkening Day: Air Pollution Films and Environmental Awareness, 1960–1972

September 10, 2020 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest Jennifer Lynn Peterson, PhD Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, to explore a