Welcome to midweek! Here are some of the stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL recently…
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All the News That’s Fit to Link
Welcome to midweek! Here are some stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL lately….
Cushing/Whitney Travel Award
One of the partners in the MHL, Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, is offering the fifth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the historical library. The historical library “holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical …
All the News That’s Fit to Link
Welcome to midweek! Here are some stories that have come across our desks recently at the MHL…
All the News That’s Fit to Link
Welcome to midweek! Here are some stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL recently…
Digitizing Dorothea Lynde Dix at the National Library of Medicine
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was one of the most influential lay social reformers to focus on the care and treatment of the mentally ill in 19th-century America. After starting a career as a school teacher in Massachusetts, Dix became aware …
All the News That’s Fit to Link…
And here are some recent news stories from the world of text digitization and digital humanities that have come across the MHL feeds…
Blog Redesign in Progress!
As you may have noticed if you visit our website regularly, we’ve made some changes to the look of the place. At the minute, we’re still trying to get all the rough edges smoothed out: testing out color schemes, arrangement of …
MHL at two million images: a behind-the-scenes look at the project
This month, the Center for the History of Medicine contributed its two-millionth page-image to the Medical Heritage Library. That number translates into almost 6,000 volumes that have been digitized in their entirety (and downloaded over 90,000 times), or nearly two-thirds …
MHL Project Updates
On August 10th, 2011, MHL project members met at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to discuss the future of the MHL project. This was the first meeting under our NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant.
Recent articles in history of medicine
- "Confinement of the Higher Orders": The Social Role of Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, c. 1820-60
- "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 Radical Proposition: The Brief but Exceptional History of the Seattle School Clinic, 1914-21
- A Short History of Medical Genetics
- Alienists, Attendants and the Containment of Suicide in Public Lunatic Asylums, 1845-1890
- Arthur W. Frank’s: Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology
- Bacteriology in the Service of Sanitation: The Factory Environment and the Regulation of Industrial Anthrax in Late-Victorian Britain
- Biological Aging and Social Characteristics: Gerontology, the Baltimore City Hospitals, and the National Institutes of Health
- Birth Attendants and Midwifery Practice in Early Twentieth-century Derbyshire