Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections. This site showcases unique, rare, and important medical films enriched with contextual information, scholarly essays, and related resources. 
 

Read about the research of Consortium Fellow Menglu Gao, as she rethinks the conceptual relationship between addiction and empire in the nineteenth century, based on her research in the collections of the Wellcome and Yale University.

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The book is available in partnership with the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.

Consortium Fellow Kirsten Moore-Sheeley discusses the history and consequences of failures and challenges in vaccine research.

Celebrating the Physical Sciences and Embracing Diversity:
The 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

he National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research using the NLM collection

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Consortium NEH Fellow Shirley Kinney uncovers the fluid nature of a group of medical texts that were copied, translated and modified across Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

Three Shells
Mollusks, drawn by Lucy Say (1801-1886). Lucy Say was the first female member elected to membership of the Academy. Image courtesy of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University/Corbis.