We are open to the public, please see our website for hours:
https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/ Admission is free.
The Dittrick Medical History Center is comprised of the museum, archives, and collections of rare books, artifacts, and images. The Center originated as part of the Cleveland Medical Library Association (est. 1894) and today functions as an interdisciplinary study center within the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Operating as usual
Lecturer, historian Kelly O'Donnell explores the role of investigative journalists role in the 1960s-1970s public outcry over the safety of oral contraceptives. Join us Thursday, March 31st in person or via live stream. Registration: https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/
Join us on March 31st when Kelly O'Donnell presents the 2022 Skuy Lecture. See our web site for details: https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/
Our Annual Skuy Lecture is coming up on March 31st we hope you will join us in person or virtually!
Dittrick Medical History Center, 2022 Annual Percy Skuy Lecture The Case Against the Pill?: The Controversy Over Birth Control Side Effects, 1965-1975 Presented by Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD Thursday, March 31st, 2022 12-1 pm, in the Powell Room of the Allen Memorial Library, Case Western Reserve Uni...
We are excited to once again be open to all visitors. Please see our website for new hours.
https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/
Don't forget to register for next weeks webinar:
https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/
2021 Annual Percy Skuy Lecture Thursday, April 1 at 6:00 pm Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement Dr. Lauren Macivor Thompson is a historian of early-twentieth-century women’s rights, medicine, law, and public health. She serves ...
These students are really helping out and I'm sure learning many life lessons...https://www.cleveland.com/business/2020/03/cuyahoga-county-disease-detectives-cwru-medical-students-track-coronavirus-in-one-of-ohios-hotspots.html
To keep up with the surge of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Cuyahoga County, medical students and residents from Case Western Reserve University have stepped in to bolster the county’s health worker staff, which was stretched to capacity.
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All items in the Dittrick Museum store are on sale, shop at: https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/shop/
Ever wonder how the arrival of "the pill" shaped the history of other contraceptive technologies? Join us May 2 for the 2019 Skuy Lecture with Jessica Borge. Register now! https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/
The Dittrick Museum will be temporarily closed starting Monday, April 22nd, 2019 until further notice due to repairs to our building. Our annual Skuy lecture will be held May 2nd in the Library, we hope to see you there! see:https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/
Dittrick Museum of Medical History, CWRU
Our other galleries will be open at regular hours for more information on visiting the museum see: http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/museum/visit-the-museum/
Our other galleries will be open at regular hours for more information on visiting the museum see: http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/museum/visit-the-museum/
The Dittrick Museum will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, January 30th and 31st. Stay safe, keep warm!
https://thedaily.case.edu/internet-things-collaborative-caps-successful-first-year-additional-2-2m-grant/
This is good news, some interesting work is going on...
CWRU, CSU initiative designed to shape region into digital innovation leader The Internet of Things Collaborative (IoTC), a partnership between Case Western Reserve and Cleveland State universities, is bringing together industrial, governmental, educational, neighborhood and nonprofit entities in th...
"Tracing Addiction: Pre-Victorian Knowledge of the O***m Poppy" exhibit is now open! More information at: http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/
The Dittrick Museum will close at 11:00am Friday, December 21st. For complete holiday hours see:http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/
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Happy Thanksgiving! The Museum will close at 3pm. Weds. for complete holiday hours see: http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/museum/visit-the-museum/
A detail from our 1930's doctor's office featuring enamel over metal furniture and an autoclave for sterilizing instruments.
Happy Halloween from the 1870's Doctor's office at the Dittrick Museum...
It was great to see some new faces and greet our old friends at the Zverina Lecture yesterday...
A few photos from the recent "Beyond the museum walls, Medical collections and Medical Museums in the 21st Century" Conference. Barcelona, Sept.19th-22nd, 2018
This is great news...
http://thedaily.case.edu/1-million-gift-davee-foundation-fund-history-scholarships-case-western-reserve-university/
Driven by a love of the printed word, the late Adeline Barry Davee graduated with a master’s degree in English from Flora Stone Mather College—just a year after earning a bachelor’s in the subject in 1931. Hired by her alma mater’s history department to assist its then-chair—Robert C. Bink...
James Edmonson presenting at the "Beyond the museum walls, Medical collections and Medical Museums in the 21st Century".
We are working on a Rare Book catalog which will highlight some gems of the extensive collections here. Detail from Georg Agricola’s "De re metallica", (1556) which is a principal landmark of Renaissance science and technology, the earliest detailed printed treatment of everything that had to do with metals, metallurgy, and mining.
I think we need a bigger boat!
In honor of the opening of "The Meg" we are sharing a photo of this Megalodon tooth from the Dittrick Museum's collections.
Check out our online exhibit and related book: Haunting Images: Photography, Dissection and Medical Students...http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/online-exhibits/haunting-images-2/
Are cadaver labs for med students disappearing... https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-07-19-schools-and-colleges-try-virtual-reality-science-labs-but-can-vr-replace-a-cadaver
When Case Western Reserve University launches a new health education campus with the Cleveland Clinic next year, one feature will be conspicuously ...
The Dittrick Museum will be closed on Saturday, July 7th. Regular hours resume Monday July 9th.
Come see the new installation in University Circle and visit the Dittrick Museum. But not on the 4th or the 7th of July, we will be closed. We will be open July 5th and 6th.
Over the past week, a new public art installation has taken shape at Toby’s Plaza: Judy’s Hand Pavilion, part of this summer’s FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. The piece, designed by Chicago-based artist Tony Tasset, is a silver hand that stands at about 25 feet t...
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Read about pivotal artifacts on our website...
http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/online-exhibits/explore-the-artifacts/dosimeter-victoreen-condenser-r-meter-1928/
X-ray diagnosis and radiation therapy constituted dramatic advances for medicine, but each posed a potential health hazard. Patients and pioneering radiologists risked burns and even deadly cancers from radiation overexposure. Initially, radiotherapists estimated the dosage on the basis of reaction....
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Come in and see our new exhibit, "Dissection of the brain in woodcut: A visual exploration of Renaissance anatomy from Gersdorff to Vesalius". More info at: http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/
Work continues on the upcoming exhibit"Dissection of the brain in woodcut..."
This portrait of Vesalius is from a superb illuminated copy of de Humani corporis fabrica (1555) preserved in the Riccardiana Library of Florence.
(http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/2018/04/04/•dittrick-to-host-international-society-for-the-history-of-neurosciences/)
Nice write upon the Museum in the Westlake Bay Village Observer...
http://www.westlakebayvillageobserver.com/read/2018/04/03/dittrick-medical-history-center
The Westlake & Bay Village Observer brings you fresh local news for the Westlake / Bay Village area, written and produced by local residents.
We are busy working on an upcoming exhibit, "Dissection of the brain in woodcut prints".This historiated Q was used in both editions of Vesalius’ de Humani corporis fabrica (1543 & 1555) It shows putti vivisecting a pig. The pig has been restrained on a board. One putto is cutting into the pig’s neck, while another reads from a book, and a group of others observe. Above the Q are two winged putti, and below the Q one putto is playing with a knife, while another tests the sharpness of the point of the Q.
Dittrick will host the 23rd Congress of the International Society for the History of Neurosciences. More details: http://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/2018/04/04/
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Vittorio Marchis enthralled a packed house last night at the Dittrick, where he explored our connection and symbiosis with machines, featuring the "dissection" of an EKG machine to the tunes of Kraftwerk's Electro-Kardiogramm....
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