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Making Exhibition Connections: Lamar Soutter Library

August 15, 2019 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Guests, Making Exhibition Connections, Series One comment

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions. These

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Making Exhibition Connections: St. Charles City-County Library

July 11, 2019 Circulating Now Exhibitions, Guests, Making Exhibition Connections, Series One comment

Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions. These

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Men digging a ditch marked with string.

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Discovering the Cause of Yellow Fever

June 7, 2019 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Films & Videos, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data, Series 7 comments

By Tannaz Motevalli, Sarah Eilers, Laura Hartman, and Erika Mills In the previous blog post “Data Science in Politics of

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Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research before “Data”

June 5, 2019 Circulating Now Collections, Exhibitions, Revealing Data, Series 4 comments

When data is processed and analyzed it becomes actionable information.

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A Great War Postscript: Spring 1919

April 25, 2019 Circulating Now Archives & Manuscripts, Collections, The Great War Leave a comment

At last, Dr. Bayne-Jones received word that he would be released from army service in May 1919. By early June, he was back in the U.S. for the first time in over two years.

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Naming, Networks, and Power in Histories of Medicine in Africa

April 4, 2019 Circulating Now Guests, News, Revealing Data One comment

Sarah Runcie, PhD, on her article in the new open-access book Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History

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Networked History: Developing Quantitative Models of Qualitative Phenomena

April 2, 2019 Circulating Now Guests, News, Revealing Data One comment

Andrew Ruis, PhD, on his article in the new open-access book Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History

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Detail of a network diagram visualizing the closeness and betweenness of authors.

A Network of Number Doctors: Biostatistics at the NIH

March 28, 2019 Circulating Now Guests, News, Revealing Data 2 comments

Christopher Phillips, PhD, on his article in the new open-access book Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History

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A network diagram shows connections of varying strength between words related to influenza.

Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods

November 16, 2018 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data One comment

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic.

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A pie chart showing a little more than a third of deaths attributed to various respriratory diseases, with influenza at 4.7% and all other causes at 58.2%

Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic

November 15, 2018 Circulating Now Collections, Guests, Rare Books & Journals, Revealing Data 2 comments

Historical medical journals provide unique perspectives on the development of expert understanding of transmission, morbidity, and impact during an epidemic.

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