The 2017 Spurgeon Neel Award

The Army Medical Department Museum Foundation is pleased to sponsor the 2017 Spurgeon Neel Annual Award competition for the article of 5000 words or less that best exemplifies the history, legacy, and traditions of the Army Medical Department.

Named in honor of Major General (Retired) Spurgeon H. Neel, first Commanding General of Health Services Command (now U.S. Army Medical Command), the award competition is open to all federal employees, military and civilian, as well as non-governmental civilian authors who submit manuscripts for publishing consideration.

The AMEDD Museum Foundation will present a special medallion award and a $1000 monetary prize to the winner, who will be notified in advance, at a Foundation-sponsored event early in 2018.

All manuscripts must be submitted to the AMEDD Museum Foundation, amedd.foundation@att.net, by 30 September 2017. At the time of submission, a manuscript must be original work and not pending publication in any other periodical. It must conform to the Writing and Submission Guidance of the AMEDD Journal, and must relate to the history, legacy and/or traditions of the Army Medical Department. Manuscripts will be reviewed and evaluated by a six-member committee appointed by the President of the AMEDD Museum Foundation. The winning manuscript will be selected no later than December 2017.

Additional detail concerning the Spurgeon Neel Annual Award may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Sue McMasters at the AMEDD Museum Foundation, 210-226-0265.

April 6: Sarah Eilers speaks on WWI facial reconstruction

World War I Centenary Forum: Masking Devastation

by Circulating Now

Sarah Eilers, will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on "Masking Devastation: Inside Anna Ladd's Paris Studio" as part of the Library's World War I Centenary Forum. Circulating Now interviewed her about her work.

Circulating Now: Please tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from? What do you do? What is your typical workday like?

The original film she discusses is at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, since the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology no longer exists. See the rest of the interview at https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2017/04/04/world-war-i-centenary-forum-masking-devastation/

Mobile Medical Museum featured on tv

Mobile Medical Museum full of interesting artifacts

  Mar 24, 2017
 By Lee Peck, FOX10 News Reporter
http://www.fox10tv.com/story/34994918/mobile-medical-museum-full-of-interesting-artifacts

Major exhibit on St. Elizabeths mental hospital opens in DC

When we thought mental illness could be cured with architecture

By Sadie Dingfelder
Express March 232017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2017/03/23/when-we-thought-mental-illness-could-be-cured-with-architecture/

New York Academy of Medicine archivist featured online

Rebecca Pou | Movers & Shakers 2017 – Digital Developers

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/03/people/movers-shakers-2017/rebecca-pou-movers-shakers-2017-digital-developers/

St. Elizabeths hospital exhibit at National Building Museum

Architecture of an Asylum: St Elizabeths 1852-2017
MARCH 25, 2017–JANUARY 15, 2018
http://nbm.org/exhibition/architecture-asylum-st-elizabeths-1852-2017/

I'm sure this will be a good exhibit and I plan to go see it. The hospital treated mentally-ill soldiers for much of the nineteenth century and there's a Civil War graveyard on the site.

St. Elizabeths had a historic collection, or museum, that was broken up in the 1990s with material going to the National Archives, the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Howard University, and at least two other places.

Here's the Medical Museum's description of its holdings:

SAINT ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL COLLECTION, 1861-1990
No finding aid,21 boxes, unarranged, inactive, unrestricted.
Material transferred when Saint Elizabeth's closed its museum due to being transferred from the federal government to the District of Columbia. Includes books, photographs,paintings, patient art, certificates, and pamphlets. Most photographs and paintings are portraits of staff. Objects also in Historical Collections.
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Additional material transferred to the National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American History, Howard University,Department of the Interior Museum, Department of Health and Human Services' SAMSUS, Smithsonian Institution Castle, National Archives, and the Octagon House.

The Octagon House is the architects society's museum and it got a large model of the hospital (over my objections).

Here's a short piece from the Washington City Paper on some of the Medical Museum's holdings:

What's Inside Box No. 1997.0015 OHA 293.23?

March 21: Shelley McKellar speaks on artificial hearts at NLM

[I saw a much earlier version of this research, and recommend this].

You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held on Tuesday, March 21, from 2pm to 3:30pm in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.  This special program will be the first annual NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. This is a new annual lecture at the NLM which honors the legacy of Michael E. DeBakey as it exists in modern medical practice and in the ongoing public service of the NLM.

This year, there will be two speakers at this inaugural event:

"'Intentional Impact' The Legacy of Michael E. DeBakey Beyond the Operating Room"

Shelley McKellar, PhD, The Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Associate Professor, with Joint Appointment with the Department of Surgery, Western University, Canada

"A Brief Look at Michael E. DeBakey's Role in Establishing the National Library of Medicine as It Is Today"

George P. Noon, MD, Professor of Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine

The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine is supported by a generous gift to the NLM by the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Foundation

This lecture will be live-streamed globally, and subsequently archived, by NIH VideoCasting:

https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=22006&bhcp=1

All are welcome.

Sign language interpretation is provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate may contact Stephen Greenberg at 301-827-4577, e-mail stephen.greenberg@nih.gov, or via the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).

In addition, we warmly welcome you to visit our blog, "Circulating Now," where you can learn more about the collections and related programs of the History of Medicine Division of the NLM:

http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/

Here also you can read interviews with previous lecturers:

http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/tag/lecture/

Due to current security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised to consult the NLM Visitors and Security website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/visitor.html

Sponsored by:

NLM's History of Medicine Division

Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, Chief

Event contact:

Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD

Section Head, Rare Books & Early Manuscripts

History of Medicine Division

National Library of Medicine, NIH

301-827-4577

stephen.greenberg@nih.gov

Rhode & Conner blog on Civil War plastic surgery

Mending the Broken Faces of War

February 15th, 2017
http://www.civilwarmed.org/facial-reconstruction/

Search for new Director - Florence Nightingale Museum in London

The Board of Trustees are currently recruiting for a new Director at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London – please see link below.

 

https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/6470232/director/

 

 

 

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Margaret Humprhies on Civil War Medicine

The Marrow of Tragedy: Disease and Diversity in Civil War Medicine

http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2017/02/15/the-marrow-of-tragedy-disease-and-diversity-in-civil-war-medicine/

Edward Jenner Museum in financial trouble

Museum At The Birthplace Of Vaccination Needs Booster Dose Of Funds To Stay Open

Tara Haelle

Jan 31, 2017

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2017/01/31/museum-at-birthplace-of-vaccination-needs-booster-dose-of-funds-to-stay-open/#d955ceb48cd1

Medical illustration blog at National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Military Medical Illustration: A Civil War Invention?

by JTH Connor and Michael Rhode

 February 4th, 2017
http://www.civilwarmed.org/medical-illustration/

Medical photography of the plague

What are Medical Photographs of Plague?

By Lukas Engelmann

By remedianetwork / January 31, 2017
https://remedianetwork.net/2017/01/31/what-are-medical-photographs-of-plague/

Ukranian pharmacy museum profiled

Under the Black Eagle Pharmacy Museum

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/under-the-black-eagle-pharmacy-museum

Michael Sappol on medical photography

Anatomy's Photography: Objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image 1860-1950

By Michael Sappol

By remedianetwork / January 23, 2017 / 

https://remedianetwork.net/2017/01/23/anatomys-photography-objectivity-showmanship-and-the-reinvention-of-the-anatomical-image-1860-1950/

Alexandria's real Civil War hospital featured on NLM blog

Mercy Street's Mansion House Hospital

By Stephen J. Greenberg

January 19, 2017

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2017/01/19/mercy-streets-mansion-house-hospital/#like-10817

University at Buffalo Museum of Neuroanatomy featured on tv

Unique Places: Buffalo's Brain Museum

http://www.wgrz.com/news/unique-places-buffalos-brain-museum/343981718

Dittrick Museum featured

Inside Cleveland's fascinating Dittrick Museum of Medical History (video, event schedule)

cleveland.com

Inside Cleveland's fascinating Dittrick Medical Museum. "Traditionally, the Dittrick had been a museum for doctors," said Edmonson. "But when we ...

Aug 20: Stanley Burns speaks at new Gettysburg PA medical museum

From: Stanley Burns

I will be giving the inaugural address at the opening of a new Civil War medical museum in Gettysburg, at the The Daniel Lady Farm. The farm and Barn was a Confederate staging area during the battle and now will be dedicated as part a new medical museum. I will be lecturing and also supervising an amputation. There will be re-enactors for various events.

The Daniel Lady farm on July 2, 1863  served as a staging area for Major General Edward Johnson's divisions of Confederate regiments for the attack on the Union Flank at Culps Hill. The farm was converted to a field hospital by July 3rd for seriously wounded Confederates who were then left at the hospital as the Confederates retreated south after the battle.

I will be lecturing on the amazing medical photographs of wounded soldiers taken by Dr Reed Brockway Bontecou, Surgeon-In-Charge of Harewood US Army General Hospital Washington DC, as well as my work as the on set medical consultant to PBS's Civil War drama, Mercy Street.

http://www.destinationgettysburg.com/event/details/10562

http://www.gbpa.org/Daniel-Lady-Farm.html

National Museum of Civil War Medicine criticized for logo

D.C. tourism guide rejects Frederick museum's ad containing Confederate Flag

By Jeff Abell
July 22nd 2016
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/ad-doesnt-fly-in-dc