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Assailed at Home; Champions Abroad: The ACNM’s Push for Maternal Healthcare Advancements in Nigeria

November 14, 2024 benrichardson015cf3c356 Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Guests, News Leave a comment

An interview with Ogechukwu Williams, PhD, on her NLM History Talk and her research on the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) work in Africa.

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Revealing Data: American Soldiers and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

November 8, 2024 benrichardson015cf3c356 Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data Leave a comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dr. E. Thomas Ewing, who discusses the efforts of his students at Virginia Tech to

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In the Pursuit of Mental Well-being: Robert H. Felix and Mental Health in America

November 1, 2024 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Guests, News Leave a comment

An interview with Namhee Lee, PhD, on her NLM History Talk and her research on mental health in mid-20th century America.

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Ghostwriter: “By the Spirit of Benjamin Rush”

October 29, 2024 Circulating Now Collections, Rare Books & Journals Leave a comment

By Krista Stracka ~ All was quiet in the library on that day in 2019. There were no sounds of

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A diagram of light moving through the eye in an Arabic manuscript.

A Medieval Eye Diagram Travels to the Getty

October 24, 2024 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, News, Rare Books & Journals Leave a comment

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Kristen Collins and Nancy K. Turner, curator and conservator at The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Profiles in Science: Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality

October 15, 2024 Circulating Now Collections Leave a comment

By Christie Moffatt and Susan Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine recently launched a new thematic Profiles in Science

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Visionary Technology: Exploring Eyeglasses and Impairment in the NLM Collection

October 10, 2024 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Guests, News, Rare Books & Journals Leave a comment

An interview with Rachael Gillibrand, PhD, on herNLM History Talk and her research on how ocular health has influenced the design of eyeglasses throughout history.

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Gendering the Non-Binary, 1763, Part II

October 3, 2024 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Guests Leave a comment

By Allison Hill-Edgar ~ As described in Gendering the Non-binary, 1763, Part I, finding two unsigned engravings of intersex individuals

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Detail of the head and shoulders of a historical engraving of an artistically posed nude intersex person labeled as male.

Gendering the Non-Binary, 1763, Part I

September 26, 2024 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, Guests One comment

By Allison Hill-Edgar ~ For those of us who enjoy immersing ourselves in libraries and special collections, especially those that

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Ghāyat al-Itqān vs Ghāyat al-Bayān: Similarities and differences

September 19, 2024 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals Leave a comment

By Ayman Yasin Atat ~ During my recent visit to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) I explored the manuscripts

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