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Report cover titled Mother's Day Campaign, Maternity Center Association, 1932, illustrated with a collage of newspaper clippings.

Remembering Mothers

May 11, 2023 Circulating Now

By Nicole Baker ~ In 1935 Louis I. Dublin, Ph.D., a vice president and statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, published “Lost Mothers,” an

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Bertillon’s Statistical Analysis of the 1889–1890 Influenza Epidemic

July 14, 2022 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their research on French statistician Jacqes

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Detail of Title page of London's Dredful Visitation printed with a motief of skulls, hourglasses, and shovels surrounding the text.

Revealing Data: London’s Deadly Visitation

September 27, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Kristin Heitman, PhD, who shares her insights on seventeenth century data collection and analysis as part of our Revealing Data

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An older man and a teenage boy post together on a porch.

“Our dear Laddie has been taken”: Edward Revere Osler killed in Flanders, August 1917

August 30, 2017 Circulating Now

 By Susan Speaker ~ In an earlier post, I highlighted the wartime experiences of Sir William Osler, who is often called “the father of American

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A bas-relief plaque featuring an American eagle and a caduceus.

The Spirit of Memorial Day

May 26, 2014 Circulating Now

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ The origin of the Memorial Day observance in America is disputed, with several states and communities claiming primacy as the

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Skeletons are rising from the dead for the dance of death.

The Dance of Death

October 31, 2013 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth
Halloween is not a night for the faint of heart. This frighteningly festive 15th century woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle is captioned by a celebratory Latin verse which speaks of death as a friend.

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Detail of the title page of President Garfield's autopsy report stamped Surgeon General's Library.

“The President is Somewhat Restless…”: Aftermath

September 20, 2013 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Lenore Barbian The Beginning of the End While the ocean air of Elberon initially caused some improvement in Garfield’s condition,

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

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

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This year, the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group began documenting the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts that exist to address current issues in #WomensHealth. Learn about the new Women’s Health web archive in today's Circulating Now blog post, "Documenting Women’s Health Organizations and Resources on the Web" (🔗 in bio or https://loom.ly/AR-nh5k).
Historic titles recently released through PubMed Central via NLM's partnership with the Wellcome Trust include the:
For #TitlePageTuesday, we are featuring images from Practica de Partos, a midwifery manual authored by Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel. Madama Fessel, as she was known, was a professionally trained midwife from Paris who immigrated to New Orleans, Mexico, and finally ended up in Lima in about 1820 where she founded and headed up La Maternidad, a school of midwifery. Printed in Lima in 1830, this book is one of the oldest items in the collection from Latin America that was written by a woman.
"Think boldly, don't be afraid of making mistakes, don't miss small details, keep your eyes open, and be modest in everything except your aims."--Albert Szent-Györgyi's advice to biographer Ralph Moss (1984)
Join us next week on Thursday, September 21 at 2 PM ET to welcome Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD for the 7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. In "Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care," Dr. O'Donnell will discuss the roles, expectations, and contributions of spouses of physicians in the twentieth century.
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