Digital Projects by Subject

• Science and Society |
• The Technology of Medicine |
• Patients and Practitioners |
• NLM and NIH |
• Medicine and The Arts |
• Special Collections at NLM

• Science and Society

  • Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America (2016)
  • For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform (2015)
  • Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions (2014)
  • Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture (2013)
  • A Voyage to Health (2013)
  • Every Necessary Care & Attention: George Washington & Medicine (2013)
  • And there's the humor of it:  Shakespeare and the four humors (2012)
  • Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness (2011)
  • Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development: Posters from China (2011)
  • The Public Health Film Goes to War (2011)
  • Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War (2011)
  • Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine (2010)
  • Most Horrible and Shocking Murders: "True Crime" Murder Pamphlets in the Collection of the National Library of Medicine (2010)
  • Consumptive Disease: Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Posters, 1950 - 1980 (2010)
  • An Odyssey of Knowledge (2010)
  • Physicians in the Shenandoah Valley: Henkel Family Letters, 1786–1907 (2010)
  • Health for the People: Continuity and Change in Asian Medicine (2010)
  • An Iconography of Contagion (2010)
  • The Literature of Prescription (2009)
  • Chinese Anti-Malaria Posters (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)
  • Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images (2007)
  • Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 (2007)
  • Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons (2007)
  • Animals as Cold Warriors: Missiles, Medicine, and Man's Best Friend (2006)
  • Chinese Public Health Posters (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)
  • Turning the Pages Online (2004)
  • So, What's New in the Past? The Multiple Meanings of Medical History (2004)
  • Tempest in a Teapot: Tea & Politics & Health (2004)
  • Changing the Face of Medicine (2003)
  • Visual Culture and Public Health Posters (2003)
  • Dream Anatomy (2002)
  • Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (2002)
  • Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
  • Smallpox: A Great and Terrible Scourge (2002)
  • Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (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)
  • NLM's Motion Pictures and Video about PHS (HMD) (1998)
  • Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
  • Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994)
  • "If You Knew the Conditions ...;" Health Care to Native Americans (1994)
  • Images from the History of the Public Health Service (1994)
  • Cesarean Section -- A Brief History (1993)
  • Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (1993)
  • Origins of the NIH (The Flags and Organizations Under Which It Has Served) (1987)

• The Technology of Medicine

  • From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry (2013)
  • 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)
  • 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)

• Patients and Practitioners

  • Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives (2015)
  • Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection (2014)
  • Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory (2009)
  • Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry 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)
  • Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (1993)

• NLM and NIH

  • Building a National Medical Library on a Shoestring (2011)
  • Emergency Preparedness and Response: How to Safely Conserve Library Treasures in the Case of an Emergency (2011)
  • Emergency Preparedness and Response: Safely stabilizing library collections in a water emergency - Mobile Version (2011)
  • 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)
  • Turning the Pages Online (2004)
  • 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)
  • New Frontiers in Health Communication - Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986 (1986)

• Medicine and The Arts

  • Medical Movies on the Web (2013)
  • And there's the humor of it:  Shakespeare and the four humors (2012)
  • 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)
  • The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century [Work by May Lesser] (1994)

• Special Collections at NLM

  • 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)
  • Medieval Manuscripts in the NLM (2001)
  • Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (2000)
  • Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994)