All Exhibitions and Digital Projects by Subject

• Medical History |
• Public Health |
• Medicine and Technology |
• Physicians and Scientists |
• NLM and NIH |
• The Arts and Medicine |
• Special Collections at NLM |
• Public Programs

• Medical History

  • Images from the History of Medicine (2009)
  • Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory (2009)
  • The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984 (2008)
  • Harry Potter – Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine (2009)
  • Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos (2008)
  • Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia (2008)
  • AIDS Ephemera (2008)
  • Against The Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health (2008)
  • Genealogical Research in the History of Medicine (2008)
  • Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images (2007)
  • Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Pysychiatry through 1900 (2007)
  • Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons (2007)
  • Animals as Cold Warriors: Missiles, Medicine, and Man's Best Friend (2006)
  • From 'Monsters' to Modern Medical Miracles: Selected moments in the history of conjoined twins from medieval to modern times (2006)
  • The Horse: A Mirror of Man: Paralells in Early Human and Horse Medicine (2006)
  • Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body (2006)
  • Medicine in the Americas (2005)
  • IndexCat Homepage (2005)
  • History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive (2004)
  • Turning the Pages Online (2004)
  • So, What's New in the Past? The Multiple Meanings of Medical History (2004)
  • Mental Disease Moving Images Pre-1950 (HMD) (2004)
  • NLM's Motion Pictures and Video about PHS (HMD) (2004)
  • Shelflist of Islamic Medieval Manuscripts in the NLM (2004)
  • Resources on the History of Psychiatry (2004)
  • Changing the Face of Medicine (2003)
  • Dream Anatomy (2002)
  • Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (2002)
  • Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
  • Midwifery, Nursing, and Obstetrics MSS (HMD) (2002)
  • Tropical Medical MSS (HMD) (2002)
  • Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2001)
  • Directory of History of Medicine Collections (2001)
  • Historic Medical Sites in the Washington, DC Area (2000)
  • Emotions and Disease (2000)
  • Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (2000)
  • "That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine" Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman, M.D. (2000)
  • Breath of Life (1999)
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
  • Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
  • Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994)
  • Cesarean Section -- A Brief History (1993) (2008)
  • Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (1993) (2009)

• Public Health

  • AIDS Ephemera (2008)
  • Against The Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health (2008)
  • Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images (2007)
  • Chinese Public Health Posters (2006)
  • Tempest in a Teapot: Tea & Politics & Health (2004) (2009)
  • Visual Culture and Public Health Posters (2003)
  • Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
  • Smallpox: A Great and Terrible Scourge (2002)
  • Breath of Life (1999)
  • Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
  • "If You Knew the Conditions ...;" Health Care to Native Americans (1994)
  • Images from the History of the Public Health Service (1994)
  • Origins of the NIH (The Flags and Organizations Under Which It Has Served) (1987) (2009)

• Medicine and Technology

  • Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia (2008)
  • Animals as Cold Warriors: Missiles, Medicine, and Man's Best Friend (2006)
  • Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body (2006)
  • Guide to Oral Histories in Medicine and the Health Sciences (2006)
  • Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
  • The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet (2001)
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
  • New Frontiers in Health Communication (1986) (2008)

• Physicians and Scientists

  • Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory (2009)
  • Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Pysychiatry through 1900 (2007)
  • Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons (2007)
  • Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (2002)
  • Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
  • Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2001)
  • "That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine" Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman, M.D. (2000)
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
  • Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
  • Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez (1994) (2009)
  • Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (1993) (2009)

• NLM and NIH

  • Here the Frailest Leaves: The National Library of Medicine's Bathtub Collection (2008)
  • John Ballard Blake, Ph.D. (2007)
  • Stanley Jablonski: Beneath the Surface (2005) (2008)
  • Turning the Pages Online (2004)
  • Short Publications (HMD) (2004)
  • Finding Aids (2001)
  • We Were Here First: The History of the NLM Site... (1998)
  • An Online Art and Architecture Tour of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (1996)
  • A Photographic Gallery: Images of NLM and NIH (1994)
  • The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century [Work by May Lesser] (1994) (2009)
  • New Frontiers in Health Communication - Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986 (1986) (2008)

• The Arts and Medicine

  • Harry Potter – Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine (2009)
  • Do Mandrakes Really Scream? Magic and Medicine in Harry Potter (2007)
  • Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
  • Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
  • Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez (1994) (2009)
  • The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century [Work by May Lesser] (1994) (2009)

• Special Collections at NLM

  • Images from the History of Medicine (2009)
  • Time, Tide, and Tonics: The Patent Medicine Almanac in America (2005)
  • Turning the Pages Online (2004)
  • Francisco Goya Prints at the National Library of Medicine (2004)
  • Historical Anatomies on the Web (2003)
  • Early Western Manuscripts in the NLM (2002)
  • Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (2002)
  • Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2001)
  • Directory of History of Medicine Collections (2001)
  • Medieval Manuscripts in the NLM (2001)
  • Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (2000)
  • Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994)

• Public Programs

  • History of Medicine Seminars