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Center Launches New Landing Pages

August 14, 2019

The Center for the History of Medicine is delighted to announce the dramatic redesign of...

first class of women accepted to Harvard Medical School, posing outside on the building steps in 1945.

2019-2020 Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation Fellow

July 2, 2019

We are pleased to announce Heather Munro Prescott, Ph.D. as the 2019-2020 Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine Fellow: 

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Human Tissue Ethics in Anatomy, Past and Present

July 25, 2019

We are pleased to announce that the recording of the April 2019 symposium, Human Tissue Ethics in Anatomy, Past and Present, is now online.

Doctor's Birthing kit containing anesthesia artifacts, circa 1910

Warren Museum's Mystery Box Reveals a “Twilight” Story

July 25, 2019

Brigham and Women's hospital Archivist, Catherine Pate, explores the origin of a mysterious metal box filled with labeled glass bottles and anesthesia paraphernalia…

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Edris Rice-Wray Papers Open to Research

July 22, 2019

The Center is pleased to announce that the Edris Rice-Wray papers, 1937-1983 (inclusive), 1960-1970 (bulk) are now open to research.

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Wives of Aesculapius Records Now Open to Research

July 15, 2019

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that the Wives of Aesculapius Records...

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George Cheever Shattuck Papers Open to Research

July 8, 2019

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that the George Cheever Shattuck papers...

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A. Clifford Barger Papers Open to Research

July 1, 2019

The Center is pleased to announce the opening of the A. Clifford Barger Papers to researchers. The papers reflect the professional and personal work of Clifford Barger...

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Remembering Amalie Kass

June 10, 2019

Amalie was a great friend to the Archives for Women in Medicine and Countway Library, both as a patron but also as a researcher and writer.

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Reflections on the Birthday Book: Harvey Cushing at 150 by Michael P.H. Stanley, MD

April 12, 2019

On April 8th, 2019, I spent my last day of vacation at the Center thumbing an epistolary journey through the...

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Dr. Eleanor Mason and Early Research on Basal Metabolic Rate of Indian Women

March 5, 2019

As we prepare to celebrate International Women’s Day, it has been a pleasure to research and...

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Staff Finds: Dickinson-Belskie

February 19, 2019

While processing papers, Center staff came across photographs of Robert Latou Dickinson and artist Abram Belskie...

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