We’ve recently added a few new resources to our Tools for Digital Research page and wanted to take a minute to draw them to your attention. The Giant’s Shoulders: This is a monthly collation of author-submitted blog posts from other blogs …
Tag Archive: cross-disciplinary
Digital Connection: Historical Images from the NLM
The NLM, as well as being a valued partner in the MHL, has also created a great database of medical images, Images from the History of Medicine. The database features a variety of images, including postcards, broadsides, posters, public health …
Digital Highlight: Interdisciplinary Possibilities
One of the fascinating things about a collection like the Medical Heritage Library is how many interdisciplinary opportunities it offers. The history of medicine is an incredibly diverse field in and of itself — a quick glance down the list …
Recent Additions to the Collection
- Navy Medicine 1970 06
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 5 May 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 4 April 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 3 March 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 2 February 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 1 January 1970
- U.S. Navy Medicine Vol. 58 No. 6 December 1971
- U.S. Navy Medicine Vol. 58 No. 5 November 1971
- Navy and Marine Corps Medical News April 2013
- Navy and Marine Corps Medical News March 2013
Recent articles in history of medicine
- "An Army of Reformed Drunkards and Clergymen": The Medicalization of Habitual Drunkenness, 1857-1910
- "Breaking the Chain of Poverty": Family Planning, Community Involvement, and the Population Council/Office of Economic Opportunity Alliance
- "No Struggle, No Fight, No Court Battle": The 1948 Desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine
- "Our Sickness Record Is a National Disgrace": Adelle Davis, Nutritional Determinism, and the Anxious 1970s
- "Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show
- "Spitting Is Dangerous, Indecent, and against the Law!" Legislating Health Behavior during the American Tuberculosis Crusade
- "They Increase in Beauty and Elegance": Transforming Cadavers and the Epistemology of Dissection in Early Nineteenth-Century American Medical Education
- 'A constant irritation to the townspeople'? Local, Regional and National Politics and London's County Asylums at Epsom
- 'Go and see Nell; She'll put you right': The Wisewoman and Working-Class Health Care in Early Twentieth-century Lancashire
- 'The dangers attending these conditions are evident': Public Health and the Working Environment of Lancashire Textile Communities, c.1870-1939
