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April 12, 2019

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

March 5, 2019

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

February 19, 2019

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

February 11, 2019

Staff at the Center for the History of Medicine are pleased to announce that the Charles Wild papers...

February 4, 2019

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that the Rose E. Frisch papers...

January 28, 2019

The Center recently acquired donor prospect records of the Office for External Relations...

January 17, 2019

While processing the papers of Mark Rosenberg, center staff came across records related to Rosenberg’s activities as a photographer.

January 16, 2019

Center staff are currently working on a new finding aid for the James Jackson papers. Jackson was born October 3, 1777 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Jonathan...

November 27, 2018

Dr. Fe del Mundo is celebrated in today’s Google Doodle. She was the founder of the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines... 

July 10, 2018

The Center is pleased to announce that it has received S.T. Lee Innovation Grant funding for its 2018 proposal, “Beyond the Beyond Box.” The application was one of nineteen proposals...

June 4, 2018

Respiratory Health Effects of Respirable Particles and Sulfur Oxides, commonly called the Harvard Six Cities Study, followed...

October 13, 2017

In 1946, Frances Glessner Lee donated the first ten models of what have become known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death to Harvard Medical...