Historical Library News
Feb 12, 2025
The Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library is welcoming applications for a fellowship for the study of medical photographic history. The Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical Photographic History supports the study of the history of medical photography at Yale, maximizing the research potential of the Stanley B. Burns, MD, Historic Medical Photography Collection. We welcome applications from all interested researchers, regardless of their institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or... Read More
Feb 12, 2025
The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library is pleased to announce its sixteenth annual Research Travel award for use of the Historical Library. The deadline is April 27th, 2025. The Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers outside of Yale who wish to use the Historical collections of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. In any given year the award is up to $2,000 for one week of research. Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food,... Read More
Oct 16, 2024
By Stéphan Ballard As I journeyed back through the mountains of the Adirondacks, it offered a moment to reflect on my path to Yale, the Cushing Library, and the fortunate opportunity granted by Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical Photographic History. My project, Operating Theater, is a photographic tribute to the intimate, transformative space of surgical practice, where I witnessed surgeons' precise, life-changing work. With its rare documentation of medical history, the Burns photographic collection became a portal into the dawn of modern medicine,... Read More
Sep 5, 2024
By Hannah Darvin, 2024 Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel I first came across Luke Fildes’s The Doctor while visiting Tate Britain as an art history student. I was struck by its size and subject matter. Measuring over 6 feet high and 9 feet wide, it depicts a child on the precipice of death, watched over intently by a physician who is prominently lit and placed at the center of the scene. His elevated social standing is articulated through his clothing, particularly his starched white collar, contrasting starkly with the humble cottage interior where the child lies... Read More
Aug 20, 2024
Exhibition curated by Terry Dagradi, Sofia Fertuzinhos PhD, Rolando Garcia Milian MLIS, Melissa Grafe PhD, Dana Haugh MLS, and Kaitlin Throgmorton MLIS. On view in the hallway and Cushing Rotunda from August 21, 2024 – February 2, 2025 Curated to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Bioinformatics Support Hub at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, the "Data as Art" exhibition invites visitors to explore the aesthetic potential of scientific data. This unique display challenges the conventional perception of data as purely objective, highlighting its capacity to inspire artistic... Read More
Mar 22, 2024
The Medical Historical Library is pleased to announce a new gift of the José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado papers. His papers are a gift of Caroline Stoddard Delgado, wife of Dr. José M. R. Delgado, and children José Carlos and Linda Delgado, 2024. José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado (1915-2011) was a Spanish physician, researcher, and professor who specialized in neurophysiology of the brain. He captured the world’s attention in the 1960s with his experiments using electrical stimulation of the brain to control the actions of mammals, primates, and human subjects. Delgado earned his medical degree and... Read More
Feb 20, 2024
On view in the hallway and rotunda from February 19th – August 16th, 2024 Curated by Melissa Grafe, Ph.D. and Laura Phillips, Ph.D. Mindscapes tells a story about mental health—its visibility, classification, and treatment—through the archival and visual art collections of the Medical Historical Library. Instead of a sweeping grand narrative of medical progress, Mindscapes presents a constellation of short stories that illuminate shifting cultural attitudes and scientific approaches to mental health over time. At stake in these stories are challenging, contested topics around mental health... Read More
Jan 5, 2024
Written by Jiemin Tina Wei, Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grant recipient, 2023-2024 December 29, 2023 What is the relationship between work and medicine? It may seem obvious, especially amidst this year’s wave of unionization of medical residents, that medicine is a form of work. But just as medicine can be work, work can be (and has been, in certain historical moments) medicine. My dissertation and book in progress, “Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1900-1950,” investigates the... Read More