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The title still from the film shows A Question of Justice printed over an uneven set of brass scales.

Equality, in Law and in Fact

March 16, 2023 Circulating Now

By Danielle Calle and Sarah Eilers ~ The film A Question of Justice documents in powerful images and words the work of female attorneys and

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Detail of a poster featuring faces of a Native American woman, a Black woman and a Latino man.

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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Fifty Years Ago: The Darkening Day

July 1, 2021 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills ~ In 1970, the National Library of Medicine featured an exhibition about pollution called The Darkening Day. The modern environmental movement had

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Composite of stills from a film It Takes Your Breath Away showing pollution and its impact on health.

Air Pollution is a Human Problem: Mary Catterall’s Campaign for a Livable Leeds

February 4, 2021 Circulating Now

Angela Saward, Wellcome Collection, London, discusses the 1964 British public health film It Takes Your Breath Away.

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Brown smoke comes out of tall pipes from an industrial area behind a brick building in a grassy landscape.

Darkening Day: Air Pollution Films and Environmental Awareness, 1960–1972

September 10, 2020 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest Jennifer Lynn Peterson, PhD Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, to explore a

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Shows people standing at the fountain, La Grande Grille, in Vichy, France, and drinking the water.

Revealing Data: Sewers and other Amenities

May 30, 2018 Circulating Now

By Ashley Bowen ~ Ilfracombe, a seaside town in southwest England, in the early summer… Is the most inviting, when the orchards are pink with

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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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