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, October 28, 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
NMHM's former location becomes lede to New Yorker story
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Barts Pathology Museum article
Body Snatchers And Abnormalities In Jars: A History Of Barts Pathology Museum
Friday, August 21, 2015
NMHM to move under Defense Health Agency
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3 US Organizations Set To Join Defense Health Agency NMHM was founded as the Army Medical Museum in 1862 and is home to a National Historic Landmark collection of more than 25 million objects. | ||||||||
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Robert Osborn-illustrated booklet online
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Lincoln conspirators skull's reburial, 20 years ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-exhumed-skull-of-a-would-be-assassin-and-its-long-journey-home/2015/07/03/cd2e7bd0-1ff2-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html
Thursday, June 25, 2015
National Library of Medicine historian Michael Sappol on WWII animation
The Inside Story
Circulating Now on June 25, 2015
By Michael Sappol
Inside Out, Pixar's latest hit animated feature, is mainly set on the inside of a young girl's brain. Riley, an eleven-year-old, is operated by a committee of characters, each representing an emotion, who collectively try to deal with her troubles at school and home. It seems like a very contemporary way to depict consciousness, and critical reaction from psychologists and neuroscientists has been largely favorable.
But, strangely, the film echoes an older and quite obscure piece of animated cartooning: a 1944 movie made during wartime for the U.S. Coast Guard, The Inside Story. That film, now preserved in the historical audiovisual collection of the National Library of Medicine, deals with the typical emotional problems suffered by men entering the military service and argues that psychotherapeutic approaches may help.
Continued at http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2015/06/25/the-inside-story/
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Civil War medicine by National Library of Medicine historians
Six Ways the Civil War Changed American Medicine
150 years ago, the historic conflict forced doctors to get creative and to reframe the way they thought about medicine
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Buffalo medical museum featured on tv
Fascinating, strange collection to discover at UB's Medical Museum
June 3: Civil War medicine presentation at National Archives
William G. McGowan Theater & YouTube
Civil War Medicine & Surgery
Archives specialist Rebecca Sharp will discuss The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. This published source contains information about Civil War medical and surgical procedures as well as case studies. Video | Captioning | Presentation slides | Handout 1 | Handout 2.