Exhibits
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Previous exhibits
There's a Place for You: Oregon Women in the Health Sciences
January – March 2020
Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness
A National Library of Medicine/American Library Association traveling exhibition
September - December 2019
A Selected History of Retinal Illustrations, 1851–1900 and Beyond
June - September 2019
Queering OHSU: Honoring Our LGBTQ+ History
April - June 2019
The Artist Is In: A Visual Retrospective of Research, Education and Invention
January - April 2019
Student Life at OHSU, 1900 to present
September 2018 - January 2019
Passport to a Better World: Oregon Health Professionals Abroad
June - September 2018
Putting Marquam Hill on the Map: Early Campus Memories, 1915-1932
March - June 2018
Medicine on the Move: Kits, Cases and Carry-alls from the History of Healthcare
November 2017 - March 2018
OHSU Welcomes Winter
June - November 2017
For the Greater Good?: Public Health Regulation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
January - June 2017
Oregon Over There: Base Hospital 46 in World War I
September - December 2016
Midwives Hold the Future: Advancing Nurse Midwifery in the U.S., in Oregon, and at OHSU
June - August 2016
Mercury, Marriage, and Magic Bullets: Four Centuries of STD Prevention and Treatment
January - May 2016
Lines of Disharmony: Skeletal Malocclusions and Aesthetics in the Development of American Orthodontic Practice
September-December 2015
Pioneering Nursing Education in Oregon: Highlights from OHSU School of Nursing History
June-September 2015
Ophthalmology 1700-1900: Celebrating the collection of Jerry F. Donin, M.D.
January-May 2015
Impressions in Time: The Growth of the OHSU School of Dentistry
September 2013-December 2013
ONPRC Rare Book Collection
Summer 2013
Rare books on Health and Healing at OHSU Library
Spring 2013
Inside These Walls: 125 Years of Healing, Teaching and Discovery, 1887-2013
November 2012-February 2013
Herbert Miller and the Boys of North Pacific College
July-September 2012
Take a Byte Out of Time
April-June 2012
Stories of Frontier Settlement Doctors
January-March 2012
Celebrating Thirty Years of Work for a Healthy and Peaceful World
October-December 2011
Miles Lowell Edwards (1898 to 1982)
July-September 2011
Architectural Renderings: Neo-Classicism to Modernism
April-June 2011
Grace Phelps, RN: a Reverie in Sepia
January-March 2011
The Literature of Quackery: Amusement and Understanding
October-December 2010
Editions Medicina Rara Art Prints
July-September 2010
Beautiful Gross Anatomy
May-June 2010
A Persistent Vision
November 2009-January 2010
Music of the Heart: Rhythms and Murmurs
July-September 2009
Artifacts in the Kenneth C. Swan, M.D. Papers
January-March 2009
Roentgen Rays: Harnessed to Heal
October-December 2008
Olof Larsell, M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.: Biologist, Anatomist and Historian, A Noble Quest
August-September 2008
Images from the Scrapbook of George Weirs King, M.D. (1845-1929): Inventor, Physician and Surgeon
June-July 2008
Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians
February-May 2008
Japanese Relics of World War II
October 2007-January 2008
One of the Best of a Rare Breed: Melvin Paul Judkins, A Pioneer in Coronary Arteriography
June-September 2007
Anatomy at the Bleeding Edge
As an homage to the Body Worlds exhibit that opened June 6, 2007 at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry), we have installed a new display in the University Library: Anatomy at the Bleeding Edge. As usual, the exhibit brings together materials from our historical image, book, archives and museum collections, this time to highlight the history of anatomy and anatomical teaching at OHSU.
Notable items include:
- The Bourgery Atlas
- Da Vinci drawings
- Sketches from the Clarice Ashworth Francone Collection
- Images from Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, 2nd folio edition, 1955
- Images of early anatomy labs at the University of Oregon Medical School
April-May 2007
A Return from Oblivion: Portland's First Neurosurgeon, A.J. McLean
January-March 2007
Hope Blooms Under a Benevolent Moon: Valentine Prichard and The People's Institute
July-September 2006
Manuscript mysteries
Looking for a summer research project? Check out some of history's mysteries from the OHSU History of Medicine Collection: Manuscript books are by nature unique, since each is produced individually by an author, known or unknown, rather than mass produced as printed books are. This small exhibit features five bound manuscripts and one printed book with extensive manuscript annotations. All of these volumes are from the History of Medicine Collection in OHSU Historical Collections & Archives. We welcome interested scholars to take a closer look at any of the books on display.
Works included in the exhibit:
Artznei buch dem menschen zu villen krankheiten : gestellten fur mich zu mall...und mit meiner eigeuen hand und Gottes hillfe geschrieben im jar 1668. [Germany?, 1668]
Manuscript on pharmacology, begun January 12, 1733 / by Johann Conrad Keller. [Germany?, 1733]
Medical prescriptions. [circa 1871-1887]
Manuscript concerning procedures and treatment of diseases / by Thomas Goode. [first half 19th century]
Maladies du bas-ventre. [second half 18th century]
Larisch, E. Kurzes Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen in 20 Vorträgen. Marburg: Erhardt, 1870. (Manuscript annotations)
May-June 2006
Superlatives from the History of Medicine Collection
March-April 2006
Citizens of the Week: Five faculty from the University of Oregon Medical School recognized for their accomplishments in colorful posters.
January-February 2006
Richard Bright's "Reports of medical cases: selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy," 1827-1831
September-December 2005
Works of Galen, 1542 and 1561-62
May-June 2005
Pharmaceutical Company Art Prints: Advertising "Giveaways"
February-April 2005
Housing the Victims of the Great White Plague: The Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital
Fall 2004
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit)
Spring 2004
Bridging a Gap in our Historical Collections: The History of Dentistry Collection
Fall 2003
Colonel Strohm's Nurses
Summer 2003
Medicine and Surgery During the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Summer 2002
Esther Pohl Lovejoy: Pioneer Physician
Winter 2002
Clarice Ashworth Francone
Summer 2001
The Father of Intervention: Charles Theodore Dotter, M.D. 1920-1984
Spring 2001
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: The Father of Modern Anatomy and His Most Famous Work