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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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A stage with a CDC podium and several people seated as a panel under a screen showing former President Clinton speaking.

Remembering the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee and Macon County, AL

February 23, 2023 Circulating Now

Susan K. Laird and Termika N. Smith from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relate their experience with hosting a special event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the closing of the study.

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Inside spread showing poems, part of artist book, "Caudex Folium"

September 11: Remembering, Collecting

September 9, 2021 circulating now

Recent additions to the NLM collection expand the variety of formats and diversity of perspectives and document the continuing impact of the event.

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A photograph from a hilltop shows the utter destruction of several city blocks.

Remembering Dr. Andrew C. Jackson and the Tulsa Race Massacre

June 10, 2021 Circulating Now

June 1, 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Dr. Jackson, a prominent Black physician, was murdered during the massacre.

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Detail of a woodcut featuring St Roch and an angel.

Remembering the Saints of the Plague

November 1, 2019 Circulating Now

By Laura Hartman ~ Today, as many Western Christian churches celebrate All Saints’ Day, it seems fitting to remember the saints in the historical collections

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Image of Dr. Fee surrounded by a collage of her selected publications and images from the NLM historical collections.

Remembering Elizabeth Fee, PhD, 1946-2018

December 27, 2018 Circulating Now

Dr. Fee served most recently as NLM Senior Historian and previously as Chief of the NLM History of Medicine Division for over two decades. On October 17 Ted Brown, Professor of History and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester, will offer a special public lecture in honor and memory of Dr. Fee.

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Congressman Laird pauses to chat with Dr. James A. Shannon, Director of the National Institutes of Health, in front of the NIH Administration Building.

Remembering Melvin R. Laird, 1922–2016

November 18, 2016 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey Reznick The NLM’s History of Medicine Division mourns the passing of Melvin R. Laird, former Republican congressman from Wisconsin (1953–1969), Secretary of Defense

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Man seated at a desk with a model of the heart on the desk.

Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1944–2015

May 1, 2015 alinelink

By Jill L. Newmark and Margaret A. Hutto In an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1980, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr.,

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Clyde Snow, back to the camera, presents images of physical evidence in a trial.

Remembering Clyde Snow, 1928–2014

May 22, 2014 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Poring over bones left in mass graves and clandestine burial sites, seeking answers that might shed light

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garfield stands wounded while others help support him and apprehend the assasin

“The President is somewhat restless…”

July 2, 2013 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Lenore Barbian Reenacting the Summer of 1881, and the Days Following the Assassination of President James A. Garfield One-hundred and

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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

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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.
Staff of NLM's predecessor institution, the Army Medical Library, gathered together for this group photo in the mid-1940s.
Caudex Folium, an artist book created by Maria G. Pisano in 2016 and acquired by NLM in 2021, was inspired by the The Survivor Tree and celebrates its return to the 9-11 National September Memorial Plaza in New York, after it was nursed back to health and replanted in 2010 next to the South Pool.

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