CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Fall 2012
CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Fall 2012
SELECTED NEWS:
1. Center Now Digitizing Rare and Historic Medical
Serials 2. 2012-2012 Women in Medicine
Fellow: Carrie Adkins 3. Papers of David G. Nathan Now Open 4. Warren Museum
medical case featured in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 5. Center Responds
to 2012 Audience Survey Findings 6. Upcoming Events/Exhibits
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1. Center Now
Digitizing Rare and Historic Medical Serials
The Center for the History of Medicine has kicked off the
Medical Heritage Library's new collaborative digitization project, having so
far digitized or prepared for digitization over 150 different journal and
periodical titles. Much like the collection of historical medical monographs,
the collection of digitized journals will cover a vast spectrum of topics in
medicine and the natural sciences. Many of these publications are extremely
rare and have not been freely available online until now. [More...
Related: Selections from the mendicant collection
digitized:
Related: Civil War Photography from the Army Medical
Museum:
Related: Thousands of digitzed medical texts now
available through
2. 2012-2012 Women
in Medicine Fellow: Carrie Adkins
The Archives for Women in Medicine is pleased to announce
our 2011-2012 Foundation for The History of Women in Medicine Fellow: Carrie
Adkins.
Ms. Adkins is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in
the history department at the University
of Oregon, where she focuses on women,
gender, sexuality, and medicine in the United States. [More...
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3. Papers of David
G. Nathan Now Open
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to
announce the opening of the David G. Nathan papers, 1949-2007. Nathan (born
1929) is President Emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston,
Massachusetts, and Robert A. Stranahan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. [More...
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Related: Merrill Clary Sosman Papers Open to Research:
Related: William Parry Murphy Papers Open to Research:
Related: Newly opened collections: Elizabeth D. Hay
Papers and Lynne M.
Reid Papers: https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?p=5738
4. Warren Museum
medical case featured in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
In the September 5th edition of The Journal of Bone &
Joint Surgery, William H. and Johanna A. Harris Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
James H. Herndon, M.D. published an orthopedic and historical analysis of one
of the Warren Museum's most compelling medical cases, the sacrum, pelvis and
femur upper extremities of an early 19th century Maine resident named Charles
Lowell. [More...
Related: Warren Museum Inventory Project Milestone
Related: A Moment's Insight ("A moment's insight is
sometimes worth a life's experience." -
Oliver Wendel Holmes), photographs of Warren Museum artifacts taken by
students of the Art Institute of Boston, is now online.
5. Center Responds to 2012 Audience Survey Findings
Last spring, we asked you for your views on Center
services and programs. This is what you told us....
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6. Upcoming Exhibits/Events
October 15- November 23 :
"A Moment's Insight"
Photographs of artifacts and specimens from the Warren Anatomical Museum
by students of the Art Institute of Boston using nineteenth-century
photographic techniques. Location: Countway Library, 1st floor [More...
] To see the online exhibit, see the Center OnView:
November 1: "The EEG Comes of Age at Harvard
1934-1936: Confirmation of Brain Electrical Activity in Seizures," part of
the COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINE, David M. Dawson,
M.D.: Professor of Neurology, Harvard
Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital,
4:00 PM, Ware Room, fifth floor, Countway Library of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School. [More... https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?p=6333
]
December 1 - June 1: Upcoming exhibit
"Battle-scarred"
Drawn from the holdings of the Center for the History of
Medicine and the Warren Anatomical Museum. Location: Countway Library, 1st
floor and
L2
December 13: "Battle-scarred: War, Death, and
Disability Since the Civil War"
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust and Jeffrey Reznick,
Chief of the Historical Division of the National Library Medicine, 4:15 PM,
Carl Walter Amphitheatre, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical
School. More information to come.
December 20: "Disappearing Neurological Diseases:
Derek Denny-Brown and
50 years of Changing Neurology," a part of the
COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINE, Thomas D. Sabin,
M.D.: Professor and Vice Chairman,
Department of Neurology, Tufts Medical School; Lecturer in Neurology, Harvard
Medical School, 4:00 PM, Ware Room, fifth floor, Countway Library of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School. [More...