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Category: Confronting Violence

An exhibition exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence.

Illustration of different kinds of people coming together as in a rally or demonstration.

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Audience Engagement: Confronting Violence Visits the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library

November 17, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Jennifer Butler Keeton from Florence-Lauderdale Public Library in Florence, AL.  Drawn from a presentation given as part of a bimonthly

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Detail of engraving style illustration of a woman holding up a hand in defense.

Change is Possible

March 8, 2016 Circulating Now

This post is the last in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from Dr. Catherine Jacquet.

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Nurses Organize

January 26, 2016 Circulating Now

This post is the fourth in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of

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Deatail of the title of a document.

Nurses on the Cutting Edge

December 15, 2015 Circulating Now

This post is the third in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of

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Deatil from the cover of the pamphlet Working on Wife Abuse.

Medicine and Wife Abuse in the 1970s

November 25, 2015 Circulating Now

This post is the second in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of

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Four women sitting at a table with identifying sign that reads "Rape and Domestic Violence Programs at the Affiliated Hospitals Center".

Domestic Violence in the 1970s

October 15, 2015 Circulating Now

This post is the first in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, and Assistant Professor

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A candid photo of Dan Shridan in front of a chalkboard.

From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis

September 17, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Catherine Jacquet spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis: Nursing and the Intervention into Domestic

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

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

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Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate those individuals who have lost their lives to the disease. This year’s theme “Let Communities Lead,” speaks to the power of communities to connect and protect as well as to monitor and advocate for access to resources and accountability from authorities.
In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we are sharing a portrait of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1876 - 1952), the second Native American woman to hold an M.D. degree. Visit NLM's "Changing the Face of Medicine" exhibition site to learn more about her life and work: Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/GatkWhg
Pardon me, but it's already Thanksgiving Eve?
Today we join the nation in remembering former First Lady Rosalynn Carter who passed away yesterday after a lifetime of service.
🎃 Pumpkin season is here! This week, the Circulating Now blog explores early works with pumpkins in the NLM collections, from the 1597 book "The Herbal or Generall Historie of Plantes" with woodcut illustrations to an 1898 journal citation discussing a pumpkin seed in the bronchus.
Gather round the piano for this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesFamilyPhotos, hosted by @usnatarchives. Pictured here is American geneticist Barbara McClintock singing by the piano with her family (including the family dog 🐶) around 1914. Almost 70 years after this picture was taken, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome.

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