Ear Candy

If you’re looking for something for a little brain jumpstart after a long weekend (in the States, anyway), why not try our YouTube channel? We have all the sessions from our Spring Speaker Series and our tenth anniversary conference! For example, you can catch up on Aja Lans’s great session on Uncovering the Roots of Racism in Medicine. Continue reading

Statement on Dobbs v Jackson

As a collaborative digitization and discovery organization committed to providing open access to the history of medicine and health resources, the Medical Heritage Library, Inc. (MHL) works to ensure that researchers and other people have access to the historical records at the heart of evidence-based history. The June 24, 2022 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson to overturn the 49-year precedent of Roe v. Wade, as analyzed by… Continue reading

Summer 2022 Fellows: Genie Yoo

Hello! My name is Genie Yoo and I’m excited to be an Educational Resources Fellow (alongside my colleague Lorna Ebner) at the Medical Heritage Library this summer. In collaboration with librariansand curators, faculty and fellows, I will be curating a new collection on the theme of climate change and medicine. My goal is to create an accessible collection for students, educators, and the general public, highlighting the rich digitized resources available through the Medical Heritage… Continue reading

Summer 2022 Fellows: Lorna Ebner

Well hello, my name is Lorna Ebner, I am a Ph.D. candidate at Stony Brook University.  This summer I’ll be working to curate an online dataset for the Medical Heritage Library that highlights LGBTQ+ resource materials. Over the course of the next few months, I’ll be sifting through the over 300,000 available resources to create a narrated shelf of materials that focus on the LGBTQ+ community as it intersects with and around the history of… Continue reading