On Display at Falk Library through November 20, 2018
Exhibit Events:
October 26, 2018: African Americans in Civil War Medicine, Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD
3-4 PM: Lecture in Scaife Hall Lecture Room 1
4-5 PM: Reception in Falk Library
Information for our visitors:
Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries is a traveling exhibit featuring six panels from the National Library of Medicine that will be on display on the main floor in Falk Library, located at 200 Scaife Hall. This exhibit can be viewed during Falk Library’s hours of operation. Related materials will be in the display cases within the library.
Scaife Hall is located on the University of Pittsburgh campus. For directions, please consult the university's campus map and parking map.
About the exhibit:
Many histories have been written about medical care during the American Civil War, but the participation and contributions of African Americans as nurses, surgeons and hospital workers has often been overlooked. Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine looks at the men and women who served as surgeons and nurses and how their service as medical providers challenged the prescribed notions of race and gender pushing the boundaries of the role of African Americans in America.
Through historical images and period documents the exhibit explores the life and experiences of surgeons Alexander T. Augusta and Anderson R. Abbott, and nurses Susie King Taylor and Ann Stokes as they provided medical care to soldiers and civilians while participating in the fight for freedom. “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries opens the door to this rarely studied part of history and brings a voice to those that have remained silent for nearly 150 years,” says Curator Jill L. Newmark.
This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine with research assistance from The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.