{"id":6539,"date":"2021-03-05T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rare-book-room\/exhibits\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:12:26","slug":"exhibits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rare-book-room\/exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rare Book Room features exhibits of the works of notable individuals and special aspects of the history of the health sciences on a regular basis. In addition, the <em>Anatomia Universa<\/em> of Paolo Mascagni is permanently displayed. The Rare Book Room also features Samuel Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary of the English Language and the desk used by Sir William Osler while he was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, England.<\/p>\n<p>Frankenstein. Open House, March 22, 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.lib.uiowa.edu\/histmed\/frankenstein\/index.html\">Digital Exhibit <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans in Medical Experiments: Issues of Social Justice. Exhibit, Spring, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>WWI: Medical Issues at Home and in the Field. Exhibit, Fall, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Early Modern England: Medicine, Shakespeare, and Books. Open House, March 23, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.lib.uiowa.edu\/histmed\/shakespeare\/\">Digital Exhibit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>College of Medicine, 1870-1928. Exhibit, Fall, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Syphilis and Paul Ehrlich: an Historical Case Study. Exhibit, July, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Cholera and the Broad Street Pump. Exhibit, January, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Dentistry: Innovations and Curiosities, Exhibit. Fall, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The Black Death: the Plague, 1331-1770, Open House. March 28, 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.lib.uiowa.edu\/histmed\/plague\/\">Digital Exhibit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cutting for the Stone. Exhibit, October 2012<\/p>\n<p>Bonesetters in Europe in the 15th-17th Centuries. Exhibit, September, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Apothecary. Exhibit, November 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rare Book Room features exhibits of the works of notable individuals and special aspects of the history of the health sciences on a regular basis. In addition, the Anatomia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"parent":6445,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-hardin-rbr.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","hardin","wp-json","wp","v2","pages","6539"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7838,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6539\/revisions\/7838"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}