Digital Projects by Subject
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Science and Society
- WHO: Picturing Health for All (2023)
- Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States (2021)
- Fifty Years Ago: The Darkening Day (2021)
- Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health (2021)
- Care and Custody (2020)
- This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities (2019)
- Rashes to Research: Scientists and Parents Confront the 1964 Rubella Epidemic (2019)
- Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America (2019)
- Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America (2016)
- For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform (2015)
- Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions (2014)
- [Archived] Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture (2013); (see Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture, 2021)
- A Voyage to Health (2013)
- Every Necessary Care & Attention: George Washington & Medicine (2013)
- [Archived] And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors (2012); (see And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors, 2022)
- Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness (2011)
- [Archived] Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development: Posters from China (2011); (see Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development: Posters from China, 2023)
- [Archived] The Public Health Film Goes to War (2011); (see The Public Health Film Goes to War, 2023)
- Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War (2011)
- Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine (2010)
- [Archived] Most Horrible and Shocking Murders: "True Crime" Murder Pamphlets in the Collection of the National Library of Medicine (2010); (see Most Horrible and Shocking Murders: "True Crime" Murder Pamphlets in the Collection of the National Library of Medicine, 2023)
- [Archived] Consumptive Disease: Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Posters, 1950 - 1980 (2010); (see Chinese Public Health Posters, 2023)
- An Odyssey of Knowledge (2010)
- [Archived] Physicians in the Shenandoah Valley: Henkel Family Letters, 1786–1907 (2010); (see "Physicians in the Shenandoah Valley: Henkel Family Letters, 1786–1907," 2023 in Circulating Now)
- [Archived] Health for the People: Continuity and Change in Asian Medicine (2010); (see Chinese Family and Child Health Education, 2023)
- [Archived] An Iconography of Contagion (2010); (see An Iconography of Contagion, 2022)
- The Literature of Prescription (2009)
- [Archived] Chinese Anti-Malaria Posters (2009); (see Chinese Public Health Posters, 2023)
- Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory (2009)
- The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984 (2008)
- Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter's World (2009)
- Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos (2008)
- [Archived] Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia (2008)
- AIDS Ephemera (2008)
- Against The Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health (2008)
- Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images (2007)
- [Archived] Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 (2007); (see Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900, 2024)
- [Archived] Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons (2007); (see Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, 2023)
- [Archived] Animals as Cold Warriors: Missiles, Medicine, and Man's Best Friend (2006)
- [Archived] Chinese Public Health Posters (2006); (see Chinese Public Health Posters 2023)
- From 'Monsters' to Modern Medical Miracles: Selected moments in the history of conjoined twins from medieval to modern times (2006)
- [Archived] The Horse: A Mirror of Man: Paralells in Early Human and Horse Medicine (2006); (see The Horse: A Mirror of Man: Paralells in Early Human and Horse Medicine, 2021)
- Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body (2006)
- [Archived] Medicine in the Americas (2005); (see Medicine in the Americas, 2023)
- [Archived] Turning the Pages Online (2004)
- [Archived] So, What's New in the Past? The Multiple Meanings of Medical History (see So, What's New in the Past? The Multiple Meanings of Medical History, 20)
- [Archived] Tempest in a Teapot: Tea & Politics & Health (2004)
- Changing the Face of Medicine (2003)
- [Archived] Visual Culture and Public Health Posters (2003); (see Visual Culture and Public Health Posters)
- [Archived] Dream Anatomy (see Dream Anatomy, 2002)
- [Archived] Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (see Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen, 2023)
- [Archived] Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
- Smallpox: A Great and Terrible Scourge (2002)
- [Archived] Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2001); (see Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2023)
- Visit Historic Medical Sites Near Washington, DC (2000)
- [Archived] Emotions and Disease (2000); (see Emotions and Disease, 2021)
- Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (2000)
- "That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine" Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman, M.D. (2000)
- [Archived] Breath of Life (1999)
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
- NLM's Motion Pictures and Video about PHS (HMD) (1998)
- Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
- [Archived] Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994), (see Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts)
- "If You Knew the Conditions ...;" Health Care to Native Americans (1994)
- Images from the History of the Public Health Service (1994)
- Cesarean Section -- A Brief History (1993)
- Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (1993)
- [Archived] Origins of the NIH (The Flags and Organizations Under Which It Has Served) (1987)
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The Technology of Medicine
- Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy (2023)
- From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry (2013)
- [Archived] Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia (2008)
- [Archived] Animals as Cold Warriors: Missiles, Medicine, and Man's Best Friend (2006)
- Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body (2006)
- Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
- [Archived] The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet (2001)
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
- [Archived] New Frontiers in Health Communication - Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986 (1986)
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Patients and Practitioners
- Rise, Serve, Lead! America's Women Physicians (2019)
- Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care (2016)
- Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives (2015)
- Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection (2014)
- Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory (2009)
- Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 (2007)
- [Archived] Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons (2007); (see Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, 2023)
- [Archived] Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (2002); (see Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen, 2023)
- Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest (2002)
- [Archived] Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2001); (see Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2023)
- "That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine" Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman, M.D. (2000)
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
- Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
- Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez (1994)
- Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits (1993)
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NLM and NIH
- Building a National Medical Library on a Shoestring (2011)
- Emergency Preparedness and Response: How to Safely Conserve Library Treasures in the Case of an Emergency (2011)
- Emergency Preparedness and Response: Safely stabilizing library collections in a water emergency - Mobile Version (2011)
- [Archived] Here the Frailest Leaves: The National Library of Medicine's Bathtub Collection (see Here the Frailest Leaves: The National Library of Medicine's Bathtub Collection, 2008)
- [Archived] John Ballard Blake, Ph.D. (2007)
- [Archived] Stanley Jablonski: Beneath the Surface (2005)
- Turning the Pages Online (2004)
- [Archived] We Were Here First: The History of the NLM Site... (1998)
- An Online Art and Architecture Tour of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (1996)
- [Archived] A Photographic Gallery: Images of NLM and NIH (1994)
- The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century [Work by May Lesser] (1994)
- [Archived] New Frontiers in Health Communication - Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986 (1986)
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Medicine and The Arts
- Medicine On Screen: Films and Essays from NLM (2019)
- Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! (2018)
- Medical Movies on the Web (2013)
- [Archived] And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors (see And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors, 2012)
- Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter's World (2009)
- [Archived] Do Mandrakes Really Scream? Magic and Medicine in Harry Potter (2007)
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (1998)
- Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera (1995)
- Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez (1994)
- The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century [Work by May Lesser] (1994)
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Special Collections at NLM
- Time, Tide, and Tonics: The Patent Medicine Almanac in America (2005)
- Turning the Pages Online (2004)
- Francisco Goya Prints at the National Library of Medicine (2004)
- Historical Anatomies on the Web (2003)
- [Archived] Early Western Manuscripts in the NLM (2002) (see Early Western Manuscripts in the NLM, 2021)
- [Archived] Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (2002); (see Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen, 2023)
- [Archived] Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2001); (see Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2023)
- Medieval Manuscripts in the NLM (2001)
- Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (2000)
- Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994)
Last Reviewed: January 24, 2024