July 13: New National Library of Medicine history book premiere

You are cordially invited to a public symposium to mark the recent publication of Images of America: US National Library of Medicine, and the simultaneous availability via NLM Digital Collections of the complete book at:

 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ImagesofAmericaNLM

 and original versions of the 170+ images which appear in the book in black and white:

 https://go.usa.gov/xNfnw

 Learn more about this new, publicly-available publication here:

 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/illustrated-history-nlm-published-2017.html

 The symposium will be a part of the NLM History of Medicine Lecture Series and will take place this Thursday, July 13, 2016, from 2:30pm to 4pm in Lipsett Amphitheater on the first floor of the NIH Clinical Center, Building 10, on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD. PLEASE NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND VENUE.

 If you cannot join us onsite, you can watch the proceedings via NIH Videocasting: https://videocast.nih.gov/. You can also participate in the proceedings via Twitter by following #NLMHistTalk.

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

 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

Gallaudet University's aviation medicine exhibit

Deaf Difference + Space Survival Exhibit is an excellent exhibit on the use of deaf men with no sense of balance to experiment on how they and the Mercury 7 astronauts would deal with weightlessness and centrifugal forces. If you're around Washington, DC, it's well worth seeing. An account of the experiments is here - https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-being-deaf-made-difference-space-research

My photographs of a tour with historian Jean Bergey and original volunteer Harry Larson (and Navy Medicine historian Andre Sobocinski) can be seen here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/42072348@N00/albums/72157684118530696

A poison garden featured on NPR

Welcome To The Poison Garden: Medicine's Medieval Roots

Joanne Silberner

April 27, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/27/525143152/welcome-to-the-poison-garden-medicines-medieval-roots

Budapest's ‘Hospital in the Rock’ medical museum

Interesting feature on a cave hospital used in WWII and the Hungarian uprising that is now a museum - http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170421-budapests-secret-underground-hospital

Pharmacy museums featured on Atlas Obscura

What Ho, Apothecary! 18 Intriguing Pharmacy Museums

Take a calmative and visit one of these preserved drug preparers.

By Molly McBride Jacobson, Staff Writer

http://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/pharmacy-museums-world

WWI material at Rose Melnick Medical Museum

World War I centennial display opens April 29

Youngstown Vindicator
http://www.vindy.com/news/2017/apr/16/world-war-i/?newswatch

... at www.digital.maag.ysu.edu., by clicking on digital collections and then on the Rose Melnick Medical Museum and Base Hospital 31 glass slides.

April 6: Stephen Greenberg on WWI medical photography

World War I Centenary Forum: The Frances Dupuy Fletcher Photo Album

by Circulating Now on April 5, 2017

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2017/04/05/world-war-i-centenary-forum-the-frances-dupuy-fletcher-photo-album/

Stephen J. Greenberg, will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on "The Frances Dupuy Fletcher Photo Album" as part of the Library's World War I Centenary Forum. Circulating Now interviewed him about his work.

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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Museum: 020 7188 4400

Direct line: 020 7188 2830

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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/