The Medical History Interest Group invites you to attend "Mariners' Maladies: Examining Medical Equipage from the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck" presented by Dr. Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton, RPA; Archaeologist, Fort Bragg...
The Medical History Interest Group invites you to attend Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the Turn-of-the-Century South presented by Todd Savitt, PhD, Professor, Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Brody...
Laupus Library is hosting the 4th annual Health Sciences Trick or Treat event on the evening of October 26th! We would like to extend the opportunity to you and your...
2018 marks several historical centennial anniversaries. Earlier this year, I curated an exhibit for the one-hundredth anniversary of World War I and described the experiences of North Carolina doctors and...
Chartered in 1967, The Country Doctor Museum (CDM) holds over 4,500 artifacts and documents related to rural healthcare in America. Because many of these objects were donated by heirs and...
The Medical History Interest Group invites you to attend "Paleopathology: Rewriting the History of Plagues and Diseases with Modern Molecular DNA Methods" presented by Richard J. Baltaro, MD, PhD, Professor...
The Medical History Interest Group invites you to attend The Health Principles Practiced at John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium presented by Roman Pawlak, PhD, RD, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition...
A daylong celebration at the oldest museum in the nation dedicated to the history of rural health care will be held Saturday, April 21. From 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., the Country Doctor Museum will host "History Alive! A 50th Anniversary Celebration" – a family-friendly event that aims to offer visitors a glimpse into the past. Free activities will include museum tours, a petting zoo and horse-drawn carriage rides from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m....
Join Laupus Library’s History Collections staff on April 16-19 for a series of demonstrations about preserving artifacts and manuscripts. Learn more about book preservation, caring for photographs, digitizing items for the database, performing conservation on artifacts and archival materials, packing and storing family heirlooms, and more. Handouts and supplemental materials will be available each day. ...
The Medical History Interest Group will host “Death and Diversity in Civil War Medicine,” presented by Dr. Margaret Humphreys, the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine at Duke University, on Mar. 26 at 4:30 p.m. in the Evelyn Fike Laupus Gallery. Humphrey’s talk will explore the ways in which social determinants of health, particularly nutritious food and nursing care, explain much of this differential mortality. ...