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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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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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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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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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Man seated at a desk with a model of the heart on the desk.

Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1945–2015

May 1, 2015

By Jill L. Newmark and Margaret A. Hutto In an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1980, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr.,

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The History of Race in Randomized Controlled Trials

February 18, 2015 Circulating Now

Laura E. Bothwell spoke today at the National Library of Medicine in recognition of African American History Month on “The History of Race in Randomized

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A group of people, black and white, men and women, in suits and dresses march under a banner reading Medical Committee for Civil Rights

MCCR was There

August 28, 2013 Circulating Now

By Elizabeth A. Mullen As crowds gather today on the Mall in Washington, DC—on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington

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