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.mil
301-319-3303

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."

Andrew Giambrone

June 1, 2018, p. 8-11
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/21007233/independent-scholars-uncover-the-traumatic-treatments-lgbtq-people-suffered-at-st-elizabeths

NY Times photo essay on medical tools

Photos of Gynecological Tools From Centuries Past

By Remy Tumin

April 16, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/lens/historical-gynecological-tools.html

And the photographer's website is : https://www.lindseybeal.com/parturition/

Thanks to Alan Hawk of the NMHM who pointed out the article.

Mutter Museum featured in Washington Post

In Philadelphia, a medical museum puts the human body on display

By Liz Langley
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

John Kelly of the Washington Post on AMM building

Answer Man reconstructs the history of two very cool 19th-century Mall buildings

Washington Post

The medical museum was at 10th and E streets NW in a building that had ... Thus the remedy: a new home for the Army Medical Museum at Seventh ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/answer-man-reconstructs-the-history-of-two-very-cool-19th-century-mall-buildings/2017/11/04/ee66bdba-bf2f-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html

He includes a Post citation that I didn't know about...

Cushing's brain collection at Yale

In a basement on Yale's campus, a 'shop of horrors' concealed medical history

By Bob Tedeschi @bobtedeschi

October 31, 2017

https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/31/brains-yale-cushing-center/

Australia want's skull in Mutter Museum repatriated

Australia seeks soldier's skull held at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum

Newsworks.org

This July 12, 1999, file photo shows a portion of the two floors of the Mutter Museum, a medical museum in Philadelphia. Australian politician Lynda ...

NMHM gets some executive branch interest

Readout of Second Lady Karen Pence's visit to the National Museum of Health and Medicine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/25/readout-second-lady-karen-pences-visit-national-museum-health-and

Minor Civil War medical museums article in the Washington Post

A triage trail reveals the breakthroughs — and horrors — of Civil War medicine

Washington Post

My interest was piqued years ago during a visit to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, which is full of Civil War-era artifacts such as Union ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-triage-trail-reveals-the-breakthroughs--and-horrors--of-civil-war-medicine/2017/09/06/c2c6cb6e-786c-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html