Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Phineas Gage Skull of Phineas Gage. The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, [1] whose personal collection of 160 [2] unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens now forms the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection. [3]
Countway Library at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health [28] Dumbarton Oaks Research Library at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. Ernst Mayr Library at the Museum of Comparative Zoology [29] Fine Arts Library [30] Fung Library [31] Gutman Library at Harvard Graduate School of Education [32]
A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care.
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States, [2] and provides patient care, medical education, and research training through its 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes, including Massachusetts General Hospital ...
Longwood Medical and Academic Area: Medical: Housed in Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine Waterworks Museum, Boston: Allston–Brighton: Technology: website, late 19th-century former pumping station for the Chestnut Hill Reservoir: West End Museum: West End: Local History: West End neighborhood history and culture William ...
A large medical library, the Francis A. Countway Library, was being built expressly for the purpose of the merger. Harvard's library collection was established in 1782, the date of the founding of the medical school there, and the Boston Medical Library's collection was established in 1875. When Soutter came to Worcester in the late 1960s, he ...
Despite this remote style of administration, he was a highly effective dean who modernized the institution by merging the medical school with seven teaching hospitals, forming Harvard Medical Center,. [3] completing plans for the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, and doubling the size of Harvard Medical School's endowment.
Rothman R., Strangers at the bedside: a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making. New York, Basic Books, 1991; The Henry K. Beecher collection at The Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School