Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Katherine Akey. Ms. Akey is Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Corcoran School of the Arts at the George Washington
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A Nurse’s Scrapbook from The Great War
By Stephen J. Greenberg Anniversaries can be funny things. As we observe (“celebrate” somehow seems wrong in the context) the 100th anniversary of the First
A Portrait of the Medical World of 1911
By Stephen J. Greenberg It is, perhaps, a bit hard for the modern reader to imagine that a coffee table book consisting solely of portraits
Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection
By Erika Mills For over a century, images of nurses and nursing have been featured frequently as the subjects of postcards—so much so that nursing
Back to School with the Best of ‘Em
By Courtney Jefferies ~ Around this time of the year, many of us, including myself, are preparing to go back to school. Throughout my summer
Dr. Swan writes from Normandy, 1944
On June 6, 1944, among the troops that waded onto the Normandy beaches were over 40 U.S. surgical teams. Dr. Henry Swan described his experience…
Andreas Vesalius at 500
By Michael North ~ Today marks the 499th birthday of the great, 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, born on December 31, 1514. Throughout 2014 Circulating Now
Dr. Albert Sabin: A Closer Look
By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth Dr. Albert Sabin was born today, August 26 in 1906 in Poland and is best known for developing
“The President is somewhat restless…”: Doctors
By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Lenore Barbian Dr. D. Willard Bliss Five minutes after Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield on July 2, 1881, the first
Albinus Anatomical Prints Donation
By Michael North First Edition Albinus Anatomical Prints Come to the National Library of Medicine In April, 2013, Gloria and Paul Spiekermann of Westport, Connecticut