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Showing posts with label history of medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of medicine. Show all posts
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Folger Shakespeare Library's medical exhibit tour tomorrow

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I saw this a couple of nights ago and it's an excellent exhibit. This bit is clipped from their e-newsletter. ...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Medical Museums Association Annual Meeting 2010

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The Medical Museums Association (or MeMA) will hold its 2010 annual meeting at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota April 27th and 28th. ...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

NY Times op-ed on Sigmund Freud's visit to the US

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Here's an interesting bit on the history of medicine... Freud’s Adirondack Vacation By LEON HOFFMAN Published: August 29, 2009 How an in...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Noteworthy Pathologists

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I've been processing a collection called the Registry of Noteworthy Research in Pathology. I expected to be thoroughly bored with the ma...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Medical exhibit at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is going on this week, and in the Wales section is a small exhibit on the history of medicine. Wales turns...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

PICTURING MEDICAL PROGRESS FROM PASTEUR TO POLIO draws on Otis Archives

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My friend Bert Hansen's got an excellent new book out, PICTURING MEDICAL PROGRESS FROM PASTEUR TO POLIO: A History of Mass Media Images ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Osler and the study of death lecture online

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John Erlen of the University of Pittsburgh sent in this video lecture link today, which I'm watching now. February 26, 2009 Paul Mueller...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Memorial to French doctors

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This relief is on an exterior wall at the Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine in Paris, kind of tucked away and probably not noticed much. ...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Trepanation

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You see old illustrations of this procedure and it kind of makes your skin crawl and makes you very glad it's not you under the awl or d...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Mememto Mori, or, The Head of Janus

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I made a rewarding visit to the Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine in Paris last month, but thoroughly grossing out my husband with its ext...
Friday, May 9, 2008

Lecture on The Early History of NIH Biomedical Computing

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This is at NIH. Lecture: The Forgotten Revolution: The Early History of NIH Biomedical Computing History of Biomedicine Lecture at the NIH ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Kidney transplantations

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The first kidney transplant took place not quite sixty years ago in 1950 , but became more common after anti-rejection drugs appeared in 196...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Cell-sorting tech

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Here's a story about recent biomedical history - " From the World of Modern Cell Science, A Long and Sorted Coming-of-Age Story , b...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Copper, wonderful copper

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Here's an interesting article on copper's disinfectant effects, and rediscovering them for germ control in hospitals - "Copper...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Vaccination, herd immunity, and selfishness

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Two main papers ran articles on vaccination today. Let's take a look at them. Remember I'm speaking for myself here as our disclaime...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

Book review on Italian syphilis lawsuit

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See "In the 1890s, a wet nurse contracted syphilis from a baby -- and sued." By Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Sunda...