The Welch Medical Library is hosting a NLM traveling exhibition; it will be on display on the second floor of the Welch Medical Library, East Reading Room, 1900 E. Monument St., May 6 – August 10, 2024.
The National Library of Medicine produced Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives, guest curated by historian and educator Catherine Jacquet, PhD (Louisiana State University). The traveling exhibition and companion website tell the story about nurses working to reform a medical profession that failed to acknowledge domestic violence as a health issue and not a legal matter. Beginning in the late 1970s, these nurses were in the vanguard as they pushed the larger medical community to identify victims, adequately respond to their needs, and work towards the prevention of domestic violence.
Confronting Violence includes an education component with a university module and a digital gallery that features a curated selection of fully digitized items from the historical collections of the NLM, which are also available in their entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and companion website.