News

September 16, 2019

The Center is pleased to announce the acquisition of the personal and professional papers of Dr. Thomas Jay Smith, Professor of Industrial...

September 9, 2019

The Center is pleased to announce the acquisition of the personal and professional papers of Dr. Nancy M. Kane.

August 14, 2019

This fall, the Countway Library will begin a multi-floor renovation requiring...

August 14, 2019

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

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: 

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.

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…

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.

July 15, 2019

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

July 8, 2019

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

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...

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.