Dittrick Museum

Can’t visit the Dittrick Museum of Medical History over break? Take a look at its online exhibits, which feature audio lectures, written histories, photos and recommended readings on a variety of topics. Some of the current exhibits explore: Smallpox, The history of birth control, Lake View ...

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine marks milestone with medical museum exhibit Reaching out into the community with dental care is hardly a new idea among Northeast Ohio dentists or students, faculty and staff at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. ...

Join the Graduate Society of Medical Humanities and Graduate Council of Arts and Sciences for free food and drinks during happy hour at the Jolly Scholar Thursday, Oct. 26, at 4:30 p.m. After happy hour, the group will walk to the Dittrick Medical History Center to attend a talk by Lindsey Fitzharr...

“How Medicine Became Modern” exhibition opens at tech symposium Friday You can put your hands directly on history starting this weekend at the Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western Reserve University. On Friday evening, the Dittrick Museum, on the third floor of the Allen Memorial Medical...

In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery and shows how advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875 transformed the field. A free book event and reading will be held Thursday, Oct. 26, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Dittri...

This year, students, friends and family members are invited to tour campus and the surrounding city. If you wonder about the history of modern medicine, you should wander through the open house of CWRU’s one-of-a-kind museum, the Dittrick Museum of Medical History. History not your thing? Get a gl...

Brandy Schillace Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists―welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative―or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our current age as Brandy Schillace presents “Clockwork Fu...

The Dittrick Museum of Medical History will host a talk titled “How Medicine Became Modern: Technology in Museums and Education” Oct. 13–14. The symposium will focus on the role of technology in museums and education. It will mark the official grand opening of the “How Medicine Became Modern” digit...

Brandy Schillace, senior research associate and public engagement fellow at the Dittrick Medical History Center, was recently named the new editor of Medical Humanities. Schillace will take over the role July 1. Published by BMJ, a health care knowledge provider, Medical Humanities is the official...

On April 1, 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote her famous “Letter to a Friend” from the Turkish Embassy, describing the process of smallpox inoculation. With that letter, she became one of the earliest vaccination advocates, joined over the next 300 years by celebrities and scientists, pop cultur...