Introducing Sarah Bernstein!
We have had the pleasure of working with Sarah Bernstein, the Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Intern, during the 2023-2024 academic year. Sarah has accomplished many projects, including curating an exhibit featured below. You can read more about Sarah and her internship experience. Thank you, Sarah!
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Research Travel Grants
Congratulations to our 2024-2025 research travel grant recipients.
Brian Martin, Ph.D. candidate, University of Alabama, History Department, “Racial Theory and African American Medical Care in the U.S. Civil War.”
Ava Purkiss, Faculty, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, “After Anarcha: Black Women and Gynecological Medicine in the Twentieth Century.”
Baylee Staufenbiel, Ph.D. candidate, Florida State University, Department of History, “The Seven-Cell Uterus: De Spermate and the Anatomization of Cosmology.”
Warren Dennis, Ph.D. candidate, Boston University, “Hard Power Paths: Gender and American Energy Policy, 1960-2000.” (With support from the Louis H. Roddis Endowment.)
You can find a complete list of all Rubenstein Library Research Travel Grant recipients on our blog.
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Edward Parker Read (1868?-1944) was a Black pharmacist, jurist, entrepreneur, and activist based in the Philadelphia area. This collection includes printed items that advertise a range of products and services provided by Read's business entities: patent medicines, herbal remedies, mineral-spring tonics, and more. Company and product names reflect interests in folk medicine, spiritualism, and Native American imagery. These items also reflect an interest in economic development and social networking within the Black community.
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A picture book that tells the story of Mimi, a young girl with a mischievous streak. Mimi visits a farm where she plays with livestock, falls into a trough, and attempts to ride a sheep, yet does not wash her hands despite being told how germs spread. She then gets a cold that turns into tuberculosis. This work is an example of the global effort encouraging tuberculosis vaccination including advertisements for anti-tuberculosis stamps on the verso of each leaf.
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Memento Mori: The Art and Craft of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
5:30 p.m.
Rubenstein Library Room 153
Join us for an evening of discussion on collecting, the history of medicine, and Memento Mori. Our keynote, Memento Mori: The Art and Craft of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, will be presented by Joanna Ebenstein, founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. Mary Trent Jones and Rebecca Trent Kirkland will share their recollections of growing up with the Josiah Charles Trent Collection, a remarkable collection of history of medicine materials collected by their father and mother. The event will be recorded.
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We have worked with a variety classes and groups this spring. Below are a few courses we partnered with for instruction:
- Ancient Sex Ed
- History of the Book
- Magic, Science and Religion since 1400
- Premodern Disease
- Writing 101: Burnout
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Medicine Without Physicians: A History of Home Remedies
On display in the Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room is a new exhibition curated by Sarah Bernstein, Medicine Without Physicians. The exhibit will be on display through October 12, 2024. You can also view the exhibition online.
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