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Four men carry a person on a metal frame bed out of a building, a nurse carrying a baby follows.

The Forgotten Frontier: Nursing Done in Wild Places

September 20, 2018 Circulating Now

By Emma Carter ~ “Where do babies come from?” Children have been asking this question for as long as humankind has populated the Earth, and

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A woman holding a newborn sits by a woman lying in a bed.

Midwives of St. Croix

October 9, 2014 Circulating Now

By Alexsandra Mitchell Documents within the American College of Nurse-Midwives archival collection in the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division address the importance

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Male Midwives in Ethiopia

October 7, 2014 Circulating Now

By Alexsandra Mitchell This photograph from our Images from the History of Medicine database (IHM), is one of many gems in our collection.  This 1960s

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Detail of the engraved title page of Observations including a portrait of a woman and baby

Three Rare Volumes Go to New York

September 18, 2013 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North I was quite excited when I heard that The Grolier Club of New York was staging an exhibition on the history

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