The National Library of Medicine is proud to announce its next online Turning the Pages project featuring the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, the oldest surviving surgical text: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html . The Smith Papyrus was written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. This collaborative [...]
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Ann: Conventions of Display: Cultures of Exhibition in Twentieth-Century Medicine
Talk by Miriam Posner, Yale University Most medical historians have heard of anatomical museums and displays of anomalies in earlier eras. Few are aware, however, that exhibition has also been a crucial component of twentieth-century medicine. The prominence of exhibition in medicine suggests that historians should refine their notions of how medical ideas are communicated [...]
