This undated photograph, Nursing at Freedmen’s Hospital, shows an African American nurse cadet adjusting traction for a patient. Freedmen’s Hospital was established in 1862 to address the needs of thousands of African Americans who poured into Washington, DC during the Civil War, seeking their freedom. Alexander T. Augusta, MD (1825-90), a surgeon and a major in…
In honor of African American History Month, the National Library of Medicine in February presented two special exhibitions paying tribute to the work of famed Harlem photographers Morgan and Marvin Smith, and trailblazing physician Herman A. Barnett, III. Barnett, one of World War II’s famous Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots, became the first African American to…
Kathel Dunn has joined the NLM as Associate Fellowship Program Coordinator, replacing Barbara Rapp, who served for seven outstanding years as Program Coordinator before moving to the Office of Health Information Programs Development (OHIPD) in January 2008.
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