Digital Projects

Historical and contemporary sources for research and education

Medicine in the Americas 1610-1920 features American medical books made possible in part through NLM's participation in the Medical Heritage Library, a digital curation collaborative among the world’s leading medical libraries.

Films and Videos encompasses historical public health and training films, with searchable transcripts.

Profiles in Science contains archival collections of twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health.

Historical Anatomies on the Web features images from important anatomical atlases.

Cholera Online contains English-language monographs dating from 1817 to 1900 addressing the cholera pandemics of that period.

Turning the Pages allows users to leaf through medical masterpieces from past centuries.

Visible Human Project contains complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of male and female human bodies.

Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection examines how these postcard images are informed by cultural values; ideas about women, men, and work; and by attitudes toward class, race, and national differences.

Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions explores the factors that have shaped the changing definitions of some of our most potent drugs, from medical miracle to social menace.

From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry is an exhibition exploring some of the processes, problems, and potential inherent in technologies that use life.

Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture is an exploration of the rise of AIDS in the early 1980’s and the evolving response to the epidemic over the 30 years that followed.

Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness, and cultural life of Native peoples.