Exhibits at the WHSC Library
The WHSC Library celebrates its a 100-year Anniversary with look back at popular exhibits
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library is proud to announce the opening of our latest exhibition, "Moving Forward, Looking Back: A Retrospective on WHSC Library Exhibits." The exhibition highlights the efforts of Emory faculty and library staff, past and present, to tell the history of medicine, nursing, public health, and the health sciences from an Emory perspective and to showcase the library’s diverse collections.
Excellence of program and faculty featured in "History of Teaching Medicine at Emory" exhibit
The history of Emory University School of Medicine is on display in a new exhibit at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. “History of Teaching Medicine at Emory” highlights significant achievements and people who have built Emory’s School of Medicine into one of the top medical schools in the Southeast...
Historic perspective of Emory nursing features archival materials at Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Artifacts and archival documents bring an Emory perspective of nursing to life in “To Care for Others: 100 Years of Nursing at Emory.” This exhibit, which opens April 22 at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library explores Emory’s nursing program through the past century, from its original 1907 graduating class...
Pioneer of Vascular Surgery: Daniel C. Elkin, MD is focus of new exhibit
Emory surgeon and professor Daniel C. Elkin, who became a leader in the vascular surgery field in the early- and mid- 20th century, is the subject of an exhibit at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library. Pioneer of Vascular Surgery: Daniel C. Elkin, MD,” which opens April 10, will focus on Elkin’s life and his contributions to Emory University...
Emory medical unit in two world wars is focus of exhibition at the Health Sciences Center Library
The stories of Emory doctors, nurses, and enlisted men who comprised Base Hospital 43 during World War I and World War II will be the focus of “When the Emory Unit Went to War,” an exhibition that opens Monday, April 28 at Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library...
Medical Treasures at Emory Puts Historical Books, Artifacts on Display
A reminder of when doctors had a rudimentary understanding of human anatomy, performed surgery without antiseptic and used primitive forms of anesthesia for operations and dental work.
“Medical Treasures,” on display through March, 2014, features materials from the WHSC Library’s historical collections, which include 18th- and 19th-century works on human anatomy, pathology, surgery, midwifery and alternative medical practices...
