Tag Archives: Civil Rights

Exterior view of the Savannah Health Center. An African American woman is standing by an automobile. January 14

The Medical Civil Rights Movement and Access to Health Care

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Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Beatrix Hoffman. Dr. Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s most recent exhibition, For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform.  With the extension to open enrollment at HealthCare.gov in the news, here is the second of two […]

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Deatail of the title of a document. December 15

Nurses on the Cutting Edge

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This post is the third in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University and guest curator of NLM’s exhibition Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives. From California to Kentucky, Maryland to Massachusetts, nurses were […]

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Deatil from the cover of the pamphlet Working on Wife Abuse. November 25

Medicine and Wife Abuse in the 1970s

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This post is the second in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University and guest curator of NLM’s exhibition Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives. Every year November 25th marks the UN’s International Day […]

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Three women sitting at a table, one leans forward gesturing.. October 15

Domestic Violence in the 1970s

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This post is the first in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, and Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University and guest curator of NLM’s exhibition Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives. During the early 1970s, domestic violence remained largely […]

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Man seated at a desk with a model of the heart on the desk. May 01

Remembering Levi Watkins Jr., 1945–2015

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By Jill L. Newmark and Margaret A. Hutto In an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1980, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., a young African American cardiac surgeon made history when he stopped the heart of a 57 year old woman and successful implanted the first automatic cardiac defibrillator. From his humble […]

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A group of people, black and white, men and women, in suits and dresses march under a banner reading Medical Committee for Civil Rights February 18

The History of Race in Randomized Controlled Trials

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Laura E. Bothwell spoke today at the National Library of Medicine in recognition of African American History Month on “The History of Race in Randomized Controlled Trials: Ethical and Policy Considerations.”  Dr. Bothwell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Circulating Now interviewed her about her work. Circulating Now: Tell […]

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A group of people, black and white, men and women, in suits and dresses march under a banner reading Medical Committee for Civil Rights August 28

MCCR was There

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By Elizabeth A. Mullen As crowds gather today on the Mall in Washington, DC—on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—we remember that participants in the March came from all parts of society.  In this photograph a contingent of medical workers, doctors, nurses, and others march under […]

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