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The Many Faces of Diabetes: Complications and Debility in Late 20th Century America

January 26, 2023 Circulating Now

An interview with Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. on his NLM History Talk and his work on health disparities.

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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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Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1944–2015

May 1, 2015 alinelink

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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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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In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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Join us on Thursday, March 30th at 2:00 PM ET for the next NLM History Talk! Soha Bayoumi, PhD of Johns Hopkins University will discuss “COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic." This talk will will be live-streamed globally, and archived, by NIH VideoCasting (https://loom.ly/ILbAYPM).
For #TinyTuesday, we're featuring a #14thCentury treatise on equine veterinary medicine that just came back from the conservation lab with a brand new box, complete with a custom size compartment inside. With the added boost in height, the #EarlyManuscript will stand taller next to the other books on the shelf and avoid getting lost in the crowd.
Spring has sprung and we're blooming with excitement to share an illustration of Claytonia virginica (commonly called Spring Beauty) from A Flora of North America by surgeon and scientist William P.C. Barton (1786-1856). This beautifully illustrated botanical work includes the first successful use of stipple-engraving in the United States and is considered one of the most important early American color plate books.
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.

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