Located on the campus of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), the Waring Historical Library is named after its first directory, Joseph I. Waring, Jr. Persons with an interest in the history of medicine will find much to look over here, and as these materials do not circulate, the online materials are a nice boon to researchers. In the "Exhibits" area, visitors can look over online...

City dwellers past and present have often had romanticized notions of rural life and narratives of the countryside having health benefits over the "dirty city" are not uncommon. The digital exhibit Wellbeing and the Countryside, presented by the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at the University of Reading, addresses this idea. Using objects and photographs from MERL's archival collections, as...

Those interested in the history of medicine, psychology, and science will want to check out The Wellcome Library Blog, a highly engaging, frequently updated blog authored by the staff of the Wellcome Collection's Wellcome Library. Each blog entry is tagged, allowing visitors to browse topics of interest. In From the Collections, visitors will find posts that highlight and situate items from the...

This Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of effective vaccines to prevent polio. On April 12, 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk, a virologist working at the University of Pittsburgh with funding from the March of Dimes, announced his vaccine against the disease. In 1957, trials of Dr. Albert Sabin's vaccine began. Between 1955 and 1957, the incidence of polio...

For many decades, women who sought to become doctors were turned away at many institutions. This was not the case at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1850 the school trained thousands of women physicians who would later go on to teach in a diverse set of countries across the world. The story of these women and this institution is told in great detail through a set of...