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Making A Case for Comic Books in the Classroom

June 30, 2022 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Comics, whether created to entertain or inform, have a place in the classroom.

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AIDS Posters: A Community Tool Used to Save Lives

December 1, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Theodore (ted) Kerr to discuss his research in the AIDS poster collection at the National Library of Medicine and his

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More Pictures of the Pandemic

July 9, 2021 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Three months ago Circulating Now published a post presenting new acquisitions related to COVID-19. As vaccination rates rise in our

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Pictures of the Pandemic

April 8, 2021 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ July 23rd, 2020, was a typical hot, humid day in Washington, D.C., but unlike other summer days in the Nation’s

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Revealing Data: Learning About Zika

June 18, 2020 Circulating Now

NLM collection items reveal how data has informed scientists’ understanding of Zika and its impact on the health of individuals and communities around the world.

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Mother and child, Nepal

Global Healing

February 11, 2015 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ “I have always been drawn to people and have sought to see them compassionately and with understanding through the lens

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A sheet of three identical stamps featuring a reproduction of the portrait of Vesalius from his De Fabrca.

Andreas Vesalius in Stamps

September 23, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best known for changing how

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Actively Fighting Childhood Obesity

September 19, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ The rise in childhood obesity has been growing at an alarming rate. According to the Centers for Disease Control and

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For #FilmFriday, we are featuring a clip from a very rare fragment of the silent film, Plastic Reconstruction of Face, produced in 1918 that shows the sculpting work of Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood at the Studio for Portrait Masks. The footage reveals the earnest work of the sculptors who specialized in creating masks for World War I soldiers with facial injuries. Trench warfare produces many of these debilitating and demoralizing injuries. Soldiers injured this way often underwent multiple surgeries, but contemporary plastic surgery techniques were limited. Ladd started with plaster cast and then made a copper mask to cover just the injured area. She used fine metal threads for eyelashes and painted the masks to match the skin tone.
This week, the Circulating Now blog looks at the film "A Question of Justice," documenting the work of female attorneys and activists from 38 nations who, in 1975, attended the first Inter-Hemispheric Conference on Law, Population, and the Status of Women.
The 1964 film It Takes Your Breath Away is a graphic and persuasive portrait of the dangers of pollution. Its creator was Mary Catterall (Image 2), a physician and activist living in Leeds, England who worked to educate those in medicine, industry, and government about the deleterious effects of mining and air pollution on human health. Said Dr. Catterall, “I attacked the urban pollution, particularly of Leeds, with my usual frontal assault—I talked graphically and frequently to doctors, city councilors, trade unions, to administrators, anyone who would listen, and to those who would have preferred not to.”
We're adding a bit of a twist to #TongueTuesday by sharing an anatomical drawing from NLM's copy of Lambert von Heerenberg's Copulata super tres libros Aristotelis De anima iuxta doctrinam Thomae de Aquino (Cologne, 1485). Illustrated by a student in red and brown ink, the drawing shows a tonsured monk surrounded by swirling banners that describe the actions of the soul in the body and pointers to the organs of the five senses.
We're continuing our celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth by featuring images from "In the Soldier's Service: War Experiences of Mary Dexter: England, Belgium, France, 1914−1918" (Boston, 1918), a title from NLM's extensive collection of personal narratives. Edited by her mother Emily Loud Sanford, the book is based on the letters written by Mary Dexter that describe her service as an American volunteer for the British Red Cross during #WW1 and experiences as a nurse, dietician, and ambulance driver.
For #FlapbookFriday, we are featuring a copy of Anathomia (Strassburg, 1538) that was recently pulled for a patron request. This anatomical #FugitiveSheet shows the internal organs of a female figure displayed in moveable, hinged layers. Flap anatomies were first introduced in the #16thCentury as an educational aid, and their popularity continued into the early twentieth century.

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