The TMC Library Exhibit and Event

Exhibit:            June 23rd - July 19, 2014
Where:             TMC Library first floor

The traveling exhibit "Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War" from the National Library of Medicine, focuses on disabled veterans an their role as symbols of the fractured nation. Of the 3 million soldiers who fought in the civil war, more than half a million died, and as many were wounded but survived. Hundreds of thousands were permanently disabled by battlefield injuries or surgery, which saved lives by sacrificing limbs.



Free Lecture:   July 10, 2014
Where:              TMC Library first floor
Time:                 12:00 pm (noon)
Speaker:            Adrian Melissinos, PhD
                           UT Health Guest Lecturer
                           Board Member, Friends of the TMC Library
                           Partners, UT Health School of Nursing

Topic:  Come hear the remarkable story of Franklin Thompson, who joined the Union army and served behind enemy lines – all as a WOMAN DISGUISED AS A MAN. Sarah Emma Edmonds Seelye was born in Canada, and after the war, lived in La Porte and is now buried in Washington Cemetery (next to Glenwood) made possible through the efforts of the Grand Army of the Republic. How did this Canadian woman end up in Houston?

Come hear how this Canadian woman fought, nursed, spied, and survived the worst conflict in American history.

Free Shakespeare Event at the TMC Library

William Shakespeare, 1963
By permission of the
Folger Shakespeare Library

The TMC Library is hosting a free Shakespeare event on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm at The Texas Medical Center Library. 

The Shepherd School Crumhorn Collective musical ensemble will delight the audience with a musical performance of Renaissance wind music and an introduction of the unique musical instruments used during medieval times. Additionally, The Barony of Stargate, a local chapter of the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) will be on-site with a display of medieval weapons and clothing from that time period.

The event is free and open to the public.

“And there’s the humor of it” on Display at the TMC Library

“And there’s the humor of it”: Shakespeare and the four humors is a traveling exhibition developed and produced by the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library. The exhibit is on display at the TMC Library from February 13 - March 23, 2013.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality in the terms available to his age—that of the now-discarded theory of the four bodily humors –blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm. These four humors were understood to define peoples’ physical and mental health, and determined their personality, as well.

The traveling exhibition consists of 6 panels that examine the intersection of medical theory and literature of the four humors. These four bodily humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm—were understood by Shakespeare, and generations before him, to define people’s physical and mental health, and to determine individual’s personality, as well. See this exhibition to learn more about the language of the four humors and their influence in Shakespeare’s plays.

Visit the exhibit website  for more information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/shakespeare/index.html

Stamping Out Disease Exhibit

In connection with the Medical Ethics Series: Vaccines, Epidemics and Ethics, the exhibit, Stamping out Disease is now on display at The Texas Medical Center Library.

 

Infectious diseases kill 13 million people worldwide every year. Therefore, controlling disease is a global medical priority. The panels in the exhibit present a unique display of postage stamps and photographs that offers a visual record of the worldwide fight against infectious diseases and the effort to eradicate those diseases through widespread vaccination.

In addition to the Stamping Out Disease exhibit, The TMC Library has on display, information and artifacts about infectious diseases: neglected tropical diseases, smallpox and polio.

Stamping Out Disease is on loan from the Texas Medical Association, History of Medicine Committee.

NLM Exhibition Coming to the Library

Charlotte Perkins-Gilman Courtesy The Schlesinger Library,

Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

The TMC Library will be hosting the NLM exhibition Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Yellow Wall-Paper from May 29 - July 9, 2011.

In the late 19^th century, when women were beginning to challenge traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to justify unequal treatment of women. Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career supposedly to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story. The famous tale served as an indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women's professional and creative opportunities.

This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Detailed information about the exhibit and Library events, can be found at: http://www.library.tmc.edu/exhibit/