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News and Announcements from the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine.
What’s in a Web Archive Collection? Summarization and Discovery of Archived Webpages
An interview with Michele C. Weigle, PhD, on her NLM History Talk and her research on tools for improving capture and discovery of content in web archives.
Life after Lockdown: Pandemic Perspectives from Peru
An interview with Kathleen Kole de Peralta, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her efforts to collect pandemic stories in ethical, inclusive ways.
Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease
An interview with John Mathew, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his work on cultural memories of pandemics in India.
Shutting the Digital Back Door
An interview with Kim Gallon, PhD, MS, MLIS, on her NLM History Talk and her work in digital humanities and Africana Studies.
Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
An interview with Kylie M. Smith PhD on her NLM History Talk and her work on racial segregation in psychiatric hospitals.
Challenge: Science Against Cancer, 1950
Read a new essay on the history of public education film making by David Cantor now available on Medicine on Screen.
Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections
An interview with Samuel Thrope, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his work with Islamic medical manuscripts.
Merleau-Ponty, Descartes, and the Meaning of Painting
An interview with William D. Adams, PhD on his NLM History Talk and his research on visual perception and art.
Necessary Instructions About Measles, 1824
By Margaret Kaiser ~ The National Library of Medicine recently acquired a rare work on measles in Japan. Mashin Hitsuyo (Necessary Instructions About Measles) was