{"id":174,"date":"2013-02-21T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/?p=174"},"modified":"2013-02-21T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:20:34","slug":"spotlight-on-wellcome-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/spotlight-on-wellcome-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on: Wellcome Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>In this series, I\u2019ll be highlighting a digital resource or collection of primary resource materials in the history of medicine. You can find a lengthy list of these at our history of medicine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-findinfo\/subjects\/health\/history-medicine\">subject guide<\/a> and feel free to share any resources you\u2019ve found useful!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomelibrary.org\/\">Wellcome Library<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s most important medical libraries, is home to a number of specialized collections representing the history of medicine and medicine in society, including a substantial <a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomelibrary.org\/about-us\/about-the-collections\/moving-image-and-sound-collection\/\">Moving Images &amp; Sound collection.<\/a>\u00a0 A digitized collection of these films dating from 1912 on called <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/wellcomefilm\">Wellcome Film<\/a> in particular is a fantastic resource in the history of public health and medical training during the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century and makes its A\/V material freely available to researchers for download as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a>, (they have a YouTube channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WellcomeFilm\">as well<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Wellcome\u2019s film of the month for February, a 1954 short technical film entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wellcometrust.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/01\/spot-the-midwife\/\">Relief of Pain in Childbirth<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this series, I\u2019ll be highlighting a digital resource or collection of primary resource materials in the history of medicine. You can find a lengthy list of these at our history of medicine subject guide and feel free to share &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/spotlight-on-wellcome-film\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[54,55,56,57,53,52],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eresources","tag-digitial-resource","tag-digitized-collections","tag-open-access","tag-primary-resources","tag-wellcome-film","tag-wellcome-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}