McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum opens its collection to the public The "Holmes heart" has a special place among the 2,000 specimens in the collection of McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum, which opened its ... |
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.
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
McGill's Medical Museum opens to public
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Excellent article on WW1 Chemical Corps experiments in DC
The Chemists' War
One hundred years after the end of World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers is still cleaning up the relics of experiments that helped develop chemical weapons to counter the Germans' gas attacks.
By Theo Emery
Nov. 10, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/science/chemical-weapons-world-war-1-armistice.html
Friday, November 2, 2018
Civil War specimens scanned from NMHM
Lab 3-D scans human skeletal remains dating back to the American Civil War
November 1, 2018 by Brian Mcneill, Virginia Commonwealth University
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-lab-d-scans-human-skeletal.html#jCpFriday, October 12, 2018
Wayne Meyers, leprosy specialist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, has passed away
Thursday, October 11, 2018
McGill Medical Museum featured in local paper
Restored museum unlocks McGill's medical history The Maude Abbott Medical Museum provides visitors with insight into the rich history of medical studies at McGill as well as the rare opportunity to see ... |
Monday, October 1, 2018
Brain collection at India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
Visitors Can Touch Human Brains at This Indian Neuroscience Institute
It's like a petting zoo for organs.
Friday, September 21, 2018
More on the McGill Medical Museum and Gunter von Hagens
Experience: I will be plastinated when I die
The challenges I face are immense. Suffering from Parkinson's disease is like practising dying
Gunther von Hagens
Hearts, brains and bones: Visitors to new museum will 'come a little closer to death'
'We have virtually everything you can think of,' says pathologist Rick Fraser.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
McGill University reopens medical museum
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Facial reconstruction photos on NLM's blog
The National Museum of Health and Medicine also has thousands of these types of pictures.
Hidden Faces of WW1: Maxillofacial Portraits Preserved
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/08/02/hidden-faces-of-ww1-maxillofacial-portraits-preserved/
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Katherine Akey. Ms. Akey is Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Corcoran School of the Arts at the George Washington University and Fellow in the Living Legacy of World War One project at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She is also the line producer for the United States World War One Centennial Commission weekly WW1 Centennial News Podcast. Today she employs her considerable expertise to give us insight into a private and profound photographic collection of an American surgeon in the Great War, now held in the public trust at the National Library of Medicine.
Monday, July 23, 2018
July 23: Medical Museum Science Cafe: Confronting "Shell Shock": The American Experience during World War I
You are cordially invited to attend the following lecture to be held at the
National Museum of Health and Medicine, 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD
20910, on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, from 6-7 p.m.
Confronting "Shell Shock": The American Experience during World War I
During World War I, war-related psychological trauma was considered a new
manifestation of psychiatric breakdown. American military medicine was
challenged by establishing an entirely new medical specialty while treating
the stricken service member and assuring an anxious public back home. Explore
American psychiatrists' understanding of "shell shock" and what lessons they
did – or did not – learn from their experience. Presenter: Rachel Levandoski
is an historian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office
and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
FREE! Open to the public. No RSVP required.
Andrea Schierkolk
NMHM Public Programs
andrea.k.schierkolk.civ@mail.
301-319-3303
Friday, June 1, 2018
NMHM archives cited in Washington City Paper article
LGBTQ People Suffered Traumatic Treatments at St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Mentally Ill[in print as Asylum Seekers].
"This is coercive federal psychiatry. ...This whole idea of LGBT Americans being broken and in need of a cure—religious or psychiatric—is still a pernicious, damaging lie."
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21007233/independent-scholars-uncover-the-traumatic-treatments-lgbtq-people-suffered-at-st-elizabeths
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
NY Times photo essay on medical tools
Photos of Gynecological Tools From Centuries Past
By Remy Tumin
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Mutter Museum featured in Washington Post
In Philadelphia, a medical museum puts the human body on display
Washington Post February 8 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/in-philadelphia-a-medical-museum-puts-the-human-body-on-display/2018/02/07/5bfb0eaa-d45a-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html
Sunday, November 5, 2017
John Kelly of the Washington Post on AMM building
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Cushing's brain collection at Yale
In a basement on Yale's campus, a 'shop of horrors' concealed medical history
Monday, October 2, 2017
Australia want's skull in Mutter Museum repatriated
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
NMHM gets some executive branch interest
Readout of Second Lady Karen Pence's visit to the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Friday, September 8, 2017
Minor Civil War medical museums article in the Washington Post
Monday, July 17, 2017
Editorial on NMHM repatriation
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
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.
and original versions of the 170+ images which appear in the book in black and white:
Learn more about this new, publicly-available publication here:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/
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/