Have you submitted your paper, panel, roundtable, workshop, or poster proposal for #AAHM2024 yet? We want to see you in Kansas City! Proposals are due Oct 2.

TOMORROW: Take a tour through the many facets of Civil War medicine seen through the collections of the Library. Learn about unique treasures – from a remarkable album of Army Medical Museum patient photographs by surgeon Reed Bontecou and more! Tune in: go.loc.gov/LZzC50PLL4h

YJBM's Sept 2023 issue on Big Data has been published on PubMed Central. Read the entire issue here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/issues/446… cover art by Peter Harris

New collection alert: the Migs Woodside papers are now open to researchers! Read a new blog post from Julie Golia re: Woodside's substance abuse advocacy work as the founder and President of the Children of Alcoholics Foundation. nypl.org/blog/2023/09/2…

Mandrakes alert! Tara Nummedal will share her archival finds @ the CHSTM Objects, Images & Spaces of Health WG on Fri Oct 13th @ 11 EST. Alisha Rankin start with convo w/ a comment. Please do join us! Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histsci #materialculture #histknow

We’re hiring!! Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Open Rank T/TT position in Science and Technology Studies: Community Engagement and Community-Based Research careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/4941…

Do you research the cultural meanings of movement? Do you have 500-1500 words to say about it? Then send us a pitch for our new series edited by the fabulous Natalia Mehlman Petrzela!!! nursingclio.org/write-for-us/

A small thing in the moment but a welcome one: today's mail brought the latest issue of History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, a special issue on commerce and psychedelics. It looks great. @LucRichert

So delighted to get this today! Congrats @Sacrobosco2013 ! It’s a book we *need* now. Subtle and beautifully written.

#SundayReads: Anthony Grafton on Renaissance polymath Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s occult insights into the structure of the universe: publicdomainreview.org/essay/agrippa-… #magic

"Promising Future, Complex Past: #AI & the Legacy of Physiognomy," a new NLM online exhibition, presents the history of physiognomy (the discredited practice of assessing mental character based on physical attributes) & its influence on computer science. loom.ly/dkauk9M

We are happy to announce the temporary exhibition Surgeons' Hall Museums ‘In Safe Hands: The Battle for Midwifery’ is now online as a Digital Exhibition! For those unable to make it to Edinburgh to see this in person, we are bringing the exhibition to you! archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk

Cover image now available for our forthcoming book 'Understanding Baby Loss'. Publication date 21 November. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526163189/ Manchester University Press The BSA BSA Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group ASDS

What is a Colonial Archive? November 9-10: A participatory symposium centered on the challenges of working with materials entangled with colonialism's myriad histories bit.ly/3FGZEZu Whitney Humanities Center (@yalewhc.bsky.social) Yale MacMillan Center

The McNeil Center & Penn Press will inaugurate a new prize this summer for an exceptional dissertation in early American studies. The award includes a book contract, research funds, and a manuscript workshop at the Center. Applications open August 1!

I am pleased to announce that The NYPL now offers the first Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship to support advanced research on NYPL's materials from the Arab world,Turkey,Iran,South Asia, Central Asia, and their diasporas in the United States 1/ nypl.org/fellowships/mi…

Spread the word! New application schedule for Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships & Travel Grants Applications for the 2025-26 Fellowship year will now be accepted beginning 1 JUNE & the application deadline is 1 NOVEMBER info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/vi… apply: apply.interfolio.com/142501

Wow! I had no idea. Thanks for sharing Michael D. Barton My first book is the free e-book this month UChicagoPress. Happy Reading!

Excited that my new book, Personhood, will be out with Yale University Press this spring, and so honored by the first blurb from Julian Zelizer, who calls the book powerful, "the definitive history of the concept of fetal personhood, past present, and future." More on the book soon!

We are excited to share that NY Public Library has acquired the archive of Oliver Sacks, pioneering physician and beloved author. The complete record encompasses over 80 years worth of documents, from Sacks’s birth in 1933 until his death at 82 in 2015. Learn more: nypl.org/blog/2024/10/0…