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Black and white image of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children.

Describing Better: Adding Context

December 14, 2020

Part III of a series exploring our Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description.

Black and white photograph of three men and one woman standing at the bedside of an African American woman, who is sitting up in the bed. Two of the men are dressed in suits and are peering at a clipboard held by a man in a white coat. The standing woman is wearing a dark dress and looking at the woman in the bed. In the foreground is a man dressed in white scrubs.

Describing Better: Identifying Creators

December 1, 2020

This is Part II in a blog series about the Center’s Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. Read Part I here.    

Cartoon satire of a woman being inoculated from cow pox

Understanding the History of Vaccination

November 19, 2020

The history of vaccination is highlighted in a new online research guide, Vaccines: An Evolving History. 

Describing Better: Introduction

November 18, 2020

This is Part I in a blog series about the Center for the History of Medicine's Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description.

Head and shoulders portrait of John Collins Warren

October 14: John Collins Warren: Man of Science, Faith, and Influence

October 12, 2020

Learn about the life and influence of John Collins Warren with Sarah Alger, Director of the Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dominic Hall, Curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum in the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, and Bill Pearson, Director of Health and Science Ministries, Park Street Church and Visiting Scholar, Harvard Program on Human Flourishing.

Myra Logan (front row, right) with Louis Tompkins Wright (front row, center) and other members of the Aureomycin research group at Harlem Hospital (1949).

Women in Medicine Month: Myra Logan

September 29, 2020

September is Women in Medicine Month! The Center for the History of Medicine celebrated by researching Myra Logan, the first woman to perform open heart surgery. 

A map of tuberculosis spread throughout the world.

Contagion Exhibit Newly Available!

July 22, 2020

The Center for the History of Medicine announces the re-opening of the Contagion exhibit. Harvard Library created the exhibit in 2008 as part of the Open Collections Program (OCP).

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Perspectives in Change Website Now Live

July 8, 2020

Explore the history of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for students of color and other underrepresented groups at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM).

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S. Burt Wolbach and the 1918 Flu

July 8, 2020

How did the 1918 flu outbreak at Camp Devens lead to a research push to identify its cause? Check out the...

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Feeling the urge to purge? Acquisitions staff are here to help!

June 5, 2020

Feeling the urge to purge? Before you toss those papers, Longwood Medical Area faculty and staff are invited to watch this video and contact the Center for the History of Medicine for help with appraising their professional and research records.

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Countway Launches LMA COVID-19 Archive

June 5, 2020

The Countway Library is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with the HMS Arts and Humanities Initiative...

Doctors at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts wearing personal protective equipment

How One Hospital Handled the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

April 16, 2020

In 1918, no hospital was spared the responsibility of caring for those afflicted by the worldwide influenza epidemic...

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