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Countway and Hopkins Receive Mellon Foundation Grant

Psychiatrists Erich Lindemann (center right) and Lydia M. Gibson Hawes (center left) at an unidentified social event. Lydia M. Gibson Dawes papers, 1926-1959 (B MS c96). From the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

The Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School has received a $202,900 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library Resources (CLIR) …

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Recently, on Twitter…

Are you following the MHL’s Twitter feed yet? If not, here are some of the recent stories you may have missed! A new history of medicine and science voice on Twitter, James Edmonson, chief curator of the Dittrick Museum at Case Western …

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Internet Archive Updates

The Internet Archive — which houses the MHL collection — is going to be off-line periodically on 4/16 and 4/17 for updates. Check their Twitter feed for more current news!

The MHL Welcomes a New Content Contributor

The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group was established in 1990 as the Wellcome Trust’s History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group. In October 2010 it moved to the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, where it is supported …

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New Titles in the MHL!

Our latest content contributor, the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, has been adding lots of great new titles to our Internet Archive collection. Check some of them out!

The MHL Welcomes a New Content Contributor: Emory Contributes to the Medical Heritage Library

The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University is pleased to contribute digitized versions of over 180 titles selected from our Historical Collection to the Medical Heritage Library. Many scholars find these additions valuable for learning and research. …

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Dr. David Hosack: “Stormy Petrel” of American Medical Education

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Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series Dr. David Hosack: “Stormy Petrel” of American Medical Education By Michael Nevins, M.D., President, Medical History Society of New Jersey Wednesday, March 13: Refreshments, 5:30; Lecture, 6pm …

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New Titles in the MHL!

The National Library of Medicine has been adding new titles to the MHL collection — check out the full list at   the This Just In page or check out highlights below:

Lecture: “Neurosurgery before Neurosurgery”

John Browne,  "A Compleat Discourse of Wounds" (London, 1678).

Columbia University Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series Neurosurgery Before Neurosurgery by Dr. Eugene S. Flamm

Mirroring Medicine: Medals from the Collection of Dr. Ira Rezak

Medal issued to commemorate the 70th birthday of Louis Pasteur, 1892.

The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at the Columbia University Medical Center, one of the MHL partner institutions, is pleased to present “Mirroring Medicine,” an exhibition of medical-themed medals from the collection of Dr. Ira Rezak, Professor Emeritus of …

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