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Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform

September 28, 2023 Circulating Now

Explore a new addition to Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM, a curated, freely-accessible portal presenting digitized historical titles from the Library’s world-renowned audiovisuals collection.

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An open pamphlet titled Mental Health Briefs with a library stamp.

Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South

September 8, 2022 Circulating Now

An interview with Kylie M. Smith PhD on her NLM History Talk and her work on racial segregation in psychiatric hospitals.

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A group of men with PW stenciled on thier shirts gather around a man with a notebook.

‘Barbed-wire disease’ during the First World War

January 16, 2020 Circulating Now

By Matthew Stibbe ~ Even before the guns fell silent in Northern France and Belgium on November 11, 1918, the prevalence of mental disturbance among

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Seven distorted figures occupy a small space, each with a crazed expression on their face

Max Beckmann: The Faces of World War I

April 12, 2018 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ “My heart beats more for a rougher, commoner, more vulgar art … one that offers direct access to the terrible,

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Films and Essays from NLM: Medicine on Screen

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

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

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Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate those individuals who have lost their lives to the disease. This year’s theme “Let Communities Lead,” speaks to the power of communities to connect and protect as well as to monitor and advocate for access to resources and accountability from authorities.
In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we are sharing a portrait of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1876 - 1952), the second Native American woman to hold an M.D. degree. Visit NLM's "Changing the Face of Medicine" exhibition site to learn more about her life and work: Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/GatkWhg
Pardon me, but it's already Thanksgiving Eve?
Today we join the nation in remembering former First Lady Rosalynn Carter who passed away yesterday after a lifetime of service.
🎃 Pumpkin season is here! This week, the Circulating Now blog explores early works with pumpkins in the NLM collections, from the 1597 book "The Herbal or Generall Historie of Plantes" with woodcut illustrations to an 1898 journal citation discussing a pumpkin seed in the bronchus.
Gather round the piano for this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesFamilyPhotos, hosted by @usnatarchives. Pictured here is American geneticist Barbara McClintock singing by the piano with her family (including the family dog 🐶) around 1914. Almost 70 years after this picture was taken, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome.

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