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 ... |
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.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
McGill Medical Museum featured in local paper
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