Small rectangular package containing needle and tubing for drawing blood
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New mini-exhibits in the Allen Memorial Library!

If you've visited our building, the Allen Memorial Medical Library in person this month, you may have noticed two new Dittrick Medical History Center exhibit cases on the 2nd-floor landing. We will regularly display exhibits in progress, unusual combinations of artifacts, and new collections research in these publically accessible "mini-exhibits." One display, At the Dittrick, we're exploring... presents new themes and ideas we're developing for larger exhibits, events, and research projects. The second exhibit, What's New (and Old) at the Dittrick? displays modern medical devices alongside their technological ancestors. Click here to see the online version of our newest mini-exhibit, At the Dittrick,...

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Amanda Mahoney
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The next Chief Curator: Amanda L. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.N.

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that a Search Committee, chaired by Alan J. Rocke (Distinguished University Professor and Emeritus Professor of History at CWRU), recently fulfilled its charge of recommending to Dean Cyrus Taylor a candidate for Chief Curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum. Dean Taylor accepted the Search Committee’s recommendation after a personal on campus interview, and offered the position to Dr. Amanda L. Mahoney. Dr. Mahoney accepted the invitation and will begin at the Dittrick on December 3, 2018. Dr. Amanda L. Mahoney brings to the Dittrick ample hands-on museum...

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Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture, October 25th 6:00 pm, 2018

Hidden in plain view: Discovering the work of a 16th-century anatomist hidden in the historiated initials of Andreas Vesalius—Surprising images of the healing, stealing, dissecting, and vivisecting of bodies. Presented by Dr. Douglas J. Lanska De humani corporis fabrica of 1543, by the Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius, threw Renaissance anatomy into a tumultuous chaos, and ultimately overturned Galenic doctrines that had survived from the 2nd century—over 1300 years! The sublime anatomical figures of Fabrica are today widely recognized and admired. But few among us have given much notice to the historiated initials, the large blocked letters of the alphabet featured at...

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