The Health Science Center Library regularly sponsors traveling exhibitions from the National Library of Medicine.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
The Health Science Center Library in Gainesville has hosted numerous traveling exhibits from the National Library of Medicine that have included an inhouse exhibit associated with the topic.
Above: Part of the inhouse exhibit for the traveling exhibition "Fire and Freedom"
These exhibits include:
2008 "The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic." This traveling exhibit was originally hosted through the Exhibition Alliance and records the objects contained in suitcases packed by people moving into the facility- the Willard State Hospital.
2010 "Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2011 "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2011 "Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2012 "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2013 "A Voyage to Health" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2015 "The Literature of Prescription" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2016 "Surviving & Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2017 “Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War”, October 23 - December 2 and “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine”, November 13 - December 23 hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2018 "Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying event highlighted in the associated libguide.
2019 "For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2019 "Pictures of Nursing:The Zwerdling Postcard Collection" hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
The inhouse exhibit included information on nursing postcards and also on how illnesses and professions are publicized- depicted- in popular media.
2020 Fire & Freedom: Food & Enslavement in Early America hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide.
2023 This Lead is Killing Us -August 28th- October 5th, 2023 Hosted through the NLM exhibits program with accompanying events highlighted in the associated libguide
Collaborations between the Health Science Center Library Archives and the Harn Museum of Art have resulted in two exhibits- one on the historical depiction of plants- many used for medicinal purposes, and the creation of an exhibit, "Monsters and the Monstrous," based on images selected by students in the course "What Makes a Monster."
The Health Science Center Library also collaborates to bring exhibits to the library exhibit space. One such exhibit was based on a photo essay documenting the effort of the Chinese government to eradicate malaria from the Comoro Islands and was created in concert with a symposium on Mosquito borne illnesses.
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