An unofficial blog about the National Museum of Health and Medicine (nee the Army Medical Museum) in Silver Spring, MD. Visit for news about the museum, new projects, musing on the history of medicine and neat pictures.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
ALHHS Publication award goes to NMHM archivist Eric Boyle
ALHHS awards for 2014. Winners were recognized at the annual ALHHS
business meeting, held on May 8, 2014 at the American College of
Surgeons in Chicago, IL.
The ALHHS Publication award went to Eric W. Boyle for his book, Quack
Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century
America (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013). Throughout the 20th
century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted
to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and
healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to
medical science. Boyle's book reveals how efforts to establish an
exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and
medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this
failure.
The AlHHS Online Resource award went to the Waring Historical Library
Curator Susan Hoffius and Digital Archivist Jennifer Welch for their
on-line exhibit of the Porcher Medicinal Garden. The website and its
corresponding physical-location garden serve to increase public
awareness of the holdings of the Earing Historical Library and,
specifically the collection of Dr. F. Peyre Porcher.
The ALHHS Merit Award was given to Dr. and Mrs. Adam G.N. Moore for
their support of the collections of the Center for the History of
Family Medicine (CHFM). In 2012, the Moores donated more than 600
items including rare books, pamphlets, periodicals, and ephemera from
their personal library to create the new Adam G.N. Moore, MD,
collection in the History of Family Medicine at the CHFM.
Please join us in congratulating our award recipients for their
outstanding work.
- The 2014 ALHHS Awards Committee (Eric Luft, Rachel Howell,
and Judith Wiener, chair)
Monday, May 5, 2014
New medical museum in Louisiana
Willis-Knighton unveils WK Innovation Center The expansion also includes the Talbot Museum, a medical museum that displays the history of the Willis-Knighton system created in 2004. Created ... | ||||||
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Indiana Historical Medical Museum theft
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Police discover more items in stolen brains investigation ... brains and other artifacts from the Indiana Historical Medical Museum after police recovered several boxes of allegedly stolen surgical instruments. | |
May 7: Lecture on wounded Civil War soldiers at Smithsonian
Chapel Hill
"Visualizing 'The Real War': Disabled Civil War Veterans and the U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office"
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum's McEvoy Auditorium, located at 8th and G Streets NW, Washington, D.C.
Friday, April 25, 2014
NMHM mentioned in article on the Corcoran Gallery
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
NMHM's embryology collection in Bull. of History of Medicine
From: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume 88, Number 1, Spring 2014
pp. 132-160 | 10.1353/bhm.2014.0002
Summary:
Between 1932 and 1963 University of Pittsburgh anatomist Davenport Hooker, Ph.D., performed and filmed noninvasive studies of reflexive movement on more than 150 surgically aborted human fetuses. The resulting imagery and information would contribute substantially to new visual and biomedical conceptions of fetuses as baby-like, autonomous human entities that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Hooker's methods, though broadly conforming to contemporary research practices and views of fetuses, would not have been feasible later. But while Hooker and the 1930s medical and general public viewed live fetuses as acceptable materials for nontherapeutic research, they also shared a regard for fetuses as developing humans with some degree of social value. Hooker's research and the various reactions to his work demonstrate the varied and changing perspectives on fetuses and fetal experimentation, and the influence those views can have on biomedical research.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Last 'Radium Girl' dead?
Mae Keane, Whose Job Brought Radium to Her Lips, Dies at 107
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mrs. Keane, one of the so-called radium girls, was employed at the Waterbury Clock Company in the 1920s when a relatively new material, radium, was used.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Heard embryology models at Medical Museum
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Local man's father honored with national embryology exhibition ... and to attend an exhibit on Tuesday that celebrates their father's work in research embryology at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
Army Medical Museum's Shufeldt was an unattractive character
Beyond this article, which has to be read to be believed, he was a fervent racist. | ||||||
Museum Files: Audubon legacy outshines scandal
In 1882, Shufeldt was named curator in the Army Medical Museum. He retired in 1891 with a disability for heart disease. Shufeldt had a thirst for ...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Dr Damann speaks to students about forensic anthropology
Scientists share experiences with students to encourage interest in ... Franklin Damann, forensic anthropologist at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, spoke to students at Rockville High School ... | |
Friday, January 24, 2014
Newly-created digital archives from African-American psychiatric hospital
Digital Archive to House 100 Years of Historical Documents from World's First Black Mental Institution; UT Scholar Tells Forgotten Story of African-American Psychiatric Patients
Released: 1/23/2014 12:00 PM EST
Source Newsroom: University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Caricature at the Wellcome Library is online
Artists' Caricatures Show The Macabre History Of Medicine
The Huffington Post | By Sara GatesPosted: 01/22/2014http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/history-of-medicine-photos-wellcome-images_n_4645670.html
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Mutter Museum's Civil War exhibit
Stark Reminders of How Uncivil a War It Was
'Broken Bodies, Suffering Spirits' at the Mütter Museum
By DENISE GRADYJAN. 20, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Indiana Medical History Museum profiled after brain thefts
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Brain thefts boost attendance at tiny museum USA TODAY - The medical museum had an exhibit in 2010 called "The Resurrectionists: Body Snatching in Indiana," which recalled a string of grave robberies in ...
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Friday, January 17, 2014
National Library of Medicine's World War I digitization
Newly found dissection photo
Monday, January 13, 2014
Jan 22: Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels
On January 22 the Chemical Heritage Foundation will present a live webcast exploring how graphic novels, comic books, and animation are used to tell true stories about science. Titled "Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels," the webcast will feature graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and historian of science Bert Hansen. Our guests will discuss the power of visual media in telling history.
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is the author of Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, which merges text and imagery to vividly detail the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bombs.
Bert Hansen is professor of history of science and medicine at Baruch College of The City University of New York. His book, Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio, shows how mass-media images both shaped and reflected popular attitudes to medicine from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Professor Hansen has also contributed to Chemical Heritage magazine.
You are invited to watch this discussion via webcast. "Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels" will air at 6:30 p.m. EST at chemheritage.org/histchem.
For further information contact Michal Meyer via e-mail at MMeyer@chemheritage.org or call her at 215 873-8217.
Friday, January 10, 2014
West Virginia medical museum proposed
Doctor hopes to bring children's medical museum to the city Huntington Herald Dispatch Dr. Ali Oliashirazi laid out his plans for the Huntington Children's Medical Museum during his inaugural presidential address at the society's first ... |
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Mutter Museum specimen used to track cholera dna
With Help of Victims From 1849, Scientists Decode Early Strain of Cholera
JAN. 8, 2014
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Turkish medical museum to open
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EXHIBITIONS > Seljuk Museum set to open in central Anatolian ... Hurriyet Daily News Some parts of the museum will focus on the Seljuk civilization and other parts have been organized as a medical museum, which highlights the ... | | |||