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Digital Collections

Materials from the Library's rare book room and historical collections that have been digitized for online research and enjoyment:

New York Milk Committee Ephemera

Materials issued between 1910 and 1917 or 1918 by the New York Milk Committee and its Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality, dealing with their work in the Blue Front milk stations in New York City where they distributed milk and educated mothers

The Resurrectionists

Broadsides, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the body snatchers and murderers William Burke and William Hare, their accomplices, and their victims

The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Approximately 300 colorful pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the U.S. and France between 1875 and 1895 that were used to advertise a wide range of goods

Special Event

The NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health Presents:

The Lilianna Sauter Lecture:
Escaping Melodramas: Historical Thinking and the Public Health Service Studies in Tuskegee and Guatamala

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
5:30PM-7:00PM

The U.S. government has now apologized for Public Health Service studies in both Tuskegee (1932-72) and Guatemala (1946-48). This talk will argue that much of the literature on these studies treats them as object lessons on what not to do, casting the doctors as monsters, and turning the studies into historical relics attributable to "racists" from a distant time and place. Dr. Susan M. Reverby will investigate how we can think of racism, scientific certainty and ethical malfeasance outside a melodramatic framework, if this is even possible.

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S class materials are being returned to the Library and should be
available in January of 2012.

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Library's renovation project

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