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Tag: Countway Library of Medicine
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Nation & World
Melting pot of American cuisine
A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.
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Nation & World
Saga of a Civil War surgeon
A lecture series on medicine in the Civil War continues at Harvard Medical School with a look at Zabdiel Boylston Adams, a descendant of an iconic American founding family who served heroically as both a doctor and an infantry officer.
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Nation & World
The narrative of cancer
Medical experts are coming to see cancer not as a disease of cells or even of genes, but as an “organismal disease,” Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning cancer history “The Emperor of All Maladies,” told a Harvard Medical School audience on Oct. 11.
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Nation & World
Doggone that stress
Back-to-school pressures don’t rise just for students. Faculty and staff can feel the pinch too. A new therapy dog at Harvard Medical School is one of many creative solutions employed around the University.
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Nation & World
The artistic side of science
The new Transit Gallery in Gordon Hall at Harvard Medical School lets students and staffers appreciate the fine arts while getting from place to place.
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Nation & World
Evolution of ‘final solution’
Child victim of Nazi medical experiments recounts the horrors, in opening an exhibit that explores how physicians embraced the thinking and practices that became the Holocaust.
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Nation & World
Putting things in their place
Two professors shake up Harvard’s museum collections with a new course and exhibit that aim to challenge the ways in which tangible things are classified in traditional categories.
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Nation & World
Nearer, better
Through analyzing the locations of authors of academic papers, researchers have determined that physical proximity of collaborators, especially between the first and last author, correlates with how widely the paper is cited.
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Nation & World
Art, printmaking, and science
Students in a History of Science class worked to create an exhibit that illustrates the importance of print technologies and printmaking, not only to the dissemination of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe, but also to its creation.
