By Laura Hartman ~ It may seem hard to believe that a random scribbling or doodle on an empty page or margin of an old
Tag: research
Stanley N. Cohen Papers Open for Research
By James Labosier and John Rees ~ An important new archival collection, the Stanley N. Cohen Papers (1948–2016), is now available at the National Library
Remembering Elizabeth Fee, PhD, 1946-2018
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.
From Discovery to Digital Science: The U.S. National Library of Medicine
By Susan Crawford ~ My grandfather, John T. Brundage, MD was the only doctor in Moscow, Pennsylvania, a community of about 1000 people. Practicing medicine
Detailing Michael DeBakey’s War Years: Puzzle Pieces
By Sanders Marble ~ In November 2017, I was fortunate to get an NLM Michael E. Debakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine to explore
Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods
Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical
Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic
Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical
Revealing Data: Using Term Frequency to Chart Influenza Reporting
Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic. Examining the ways that medical
Revealing Data: Investigating The Hospital’s file sizes
By Ashley Bowen ~ For researchers interested in the administration of British hospitals in the late 19th and early 20th century, The Hospital is a
Finding Hope: A Woman’s Place is in the Lab
By Ashley Bowen ~ While doing some research ahead of the 50th anniversary of the rubella vaccine in June 2019, I came across an image
Revealing Data: The Psychological Clinic Explores IQ in 1911
By Ashley Bowen ~ Alfred Binet’s intelligence tests, originally developed in 1905 for the French public school system, took America by storm. The test promised
Revealing Data: Why We Need Humans to Curate Web Collections
In this Revealing Data series we explore data in historical medical collections, and how preserving this data helps to ensure that generations of researchers can
A Rapid Means of Casualty Evacuation, 1961
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Sanders Marble, PhD. Dr. Marble is Senior Historian in the U.S. Army Office of Medical History and a 2018 NLM
Inside the Creative Mind of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey
By Kurt A. Dasse ~ Dr. Michael E. DeBakey had a long and distinguished career exemplified by his surgical and technological innovations, institution-building, and medical
Revealing Data: The 1918 Flu Never Topped War
By Ashley Bowen ~ Late February and early March marks the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu’s appearance in the United States. Although the 1918
HPCC Archived at NLM: Evolution and Assessment
By Sally Howe ~ This third and last blog post associated with announcing the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) archival collection has three topics. First
Michael DeBakey and the Education of American Surgeons
By Justin Barr ~ Michael DeBakey came to Houston in 1948 as the new chairman of the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
HPCC Archived at NLM: Collaboration and Creation
By Sally Howe ~ In a blog post in September we announced the release of a finding aid for the HPPC archive. That post focused
High Performance Computing and Communications: Archived at NLM
By Sally Howe ~ People today might use their smart phones without even thinking about how they work, let alone about the infrastructure that enables
Preserving NIH science at the National Library of Medicine
By Holly Herro and Kristi Wright ~ Over the past ten years, conservation staff of the NLM’s History of Medicine Division have developed and published on
