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Ic 079 Guide To Texas Medical Center Historical Resources Project Records, 1900-2009, John P. Mcgovern Museum Of Health And Medical Science
Ic 079 Guide To Texas Medical Center Historical Resources Project Records, 1900-2009, John P. Mcgovern Museum Of Health And Medical Science
Institutional Finding Aids
The John P. McGovern Museum Health and Medical Science Collection is an artificial collection of ephemera and artifacts from the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science. The ephemera includes a publication called "Headlines", "Muse News", and other printed marketing materials acquired by the McGovern Historical Collections staff, covering the years from 1998 to 2009. See more at IC 079.
“To Support The Southern Medical Public”: The Medical College Of Georgia As A Southern Information Agency, 1828–1861, Brenton Stewart
“To Support The Southern Medical Public”: The Medical College Of Georgia As A Southern Information Agency, 1828–1861, Brenton Stewart
Faculty Publications
A traditional perspective situates nineteenth-century southern academic library culture as a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. This article challenges that assertion and traditional beliefs about the South's indifference to cultural advancement by examining the print culture of one of the South's leading educational institutions, the Medical College of Georgia. An antebellum information agency, the Medical College of Georgia leveraged its medical library, museum, and journal to transform medical information production, dissemination, and consumption in the South and represents an important symbol of southern modernity. This article presents a distinct analysis of early nineteenth-century southern medicoscientific information culture.