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The Coller Rare Book Reading Room – the panoramic view
The Coller Rare Book Reading Room captured by Ardon Bar-Hama. Click for the full panoramic experience. The Coller Rare Book Reading Room has reopened. Renovations improved environmental conditions for...
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2014–2015 Helfand and Klemperer Research Fellows
By Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health We are pleased to announce the 2014–2015 Helfand and Klemperer Research Fellows: Laura Robson (University of Reading)...
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Celebrate Andreas Vesalius’s 500th Birthday With Us on October 18
On October 18, our second-annual Festival for Medical History and the Arts, “Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500″ will celebrate the 500th birthday of anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Vesalius’...
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Guest curator Riva Lehrer on Vesalius 500
Our “Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500″ festival guest curator, artist and anatomist Riva Lehrer, describes some of her thinking about bodies, anatomy and art. In 1543, when Andreas Vesalius...
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“The Pest at the Gate”: Typhoid, Sanitation, and Fear in NYC
By Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health The relationship between medicine and public health could be a complex one at the turn of the last century. In...
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Global Celebrations of Vesalius’s 500th Birthday
By Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health From the frontispiece of Vesalius’ Fabrica. Not in New York? Plan a trip and attend our “Art, Anatomy, and the Body:...
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Innovation in Digital Publishing
By Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health Here on the blog we normally write stories based on the content in our collections, upcoming events, and other issues...
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