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The Exhibition Program of the National Library of Medicine presents lively and informative exhibitions that enhance the public and scholarly awareness and appreciation of the National Library of Medicine’s collections. The Program conducts scholarly research in science, medicine, and history; interprets that research for presentation to diverse audiences; designs and develops engaging displays; and produces educational outreach programs. The Exhibition Program makes traveling versions of its exhibitions, which are hosted by America’s libraries and medical centers. The Exhibition Program promotes public education about science, medicine, and history through its creation of interactive exhibitions, multimedia displays, traveling exhibitions, web sites, symposia, films, lectures, and publications. The Program expands the local community’s knowledge about the Library’s collections though outreach to community groups, senior centers, schools, universities, and professional groups. The Exhibition Program manages a robust tour program for Library visitors, which features special presentations by National Institutes of Health scientists and other Library programs.

Alan Turing would probably have laughed at the idea of being called a great philosopher, or any kind of philosopher. He called himself a mathematician. But his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence has become one of the most cited in modern philosophical literature. This is principally because he brought the new and rigorous mathematical concept of computability to bear on traditional problems of mind and body, free-will and determinism.

The RaceSci Website is a resource for scholars and students interested in the history of "race" in science, medicine, and technology. RaceSci is dedicated to encouraging critical, anti-racist and interdisciplinary approaches to our understanding of the production and uses of "race" as a concept within the history of science. Instead of assuming race as a natural category that science then uncovers, this site assembles scholarly works that look at how cultural processes of racialization have profoundly shaped knowledge about humanness, health, and even our understanding of "nature" itself.

During the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries, most Americans healed themselves, as their ancestors had for centuries. Professional medical assistance was either too far away, too expensive, or both. Even wealthy urban families usually attempted some sort of home health care before the doctor was called. This care was usually administered with the aid of books and pamphlets such as those discussed here and displayed in the exhibition.
Today these books are important for what they tell us about how medicine was practiced not in hospitals or laboratories, but in the home, where most practice took place, whether lay or professional. They are also important for the insight they provide into popular ideas about health as well as disease, about diet, exercise, prolonging life, sex, mental health - everything, in short, relating to our bodies and our selves. These concerns are universal, and books about them were ubiquitous then as well as now.

The Museum offers three floors of exhibitions that explore the rich diversity of American history, from "First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image" to "America on the Move."

The American Red Cross, as one of the nation's premier humanitarian organizations, is dedicated to helping people in need throughout the United States and, in association with other Red Cross societies, throughout the world. It depends on generous contributions of time, blood, tissue, and money from the American public to its national headquarters and chapters and blood regions throughout the country in support of its lifesaving services and programs.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is one of only three broadcast museums in America. It opened to the public on June 13, 1987, after five years of development, led by Chicago broadcaster Bruce DuMont. The MBC will move from its current home in the Chicago Cultural Center into its new home at State & Kinzie Street in downtown Chicago, which will open in 2005.