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	Audubon's Birds This exhibition serves as a model for an irregular series of displays from the set of Audubon prints over the next few years.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — May 1, 1996	Subjects Organismal Biology Art
	Between the Boards: Collections, Compilations and Curiosities from the John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine This exhibition celebrates the surprising discoveries while cataloging over 20,000 volumes from the John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine. It illustrates the ingenuity of the authors and other compilers, the creative scope of the personal and institutional collectors who brought these items together, the skill of catalogers who described the materials, and the exciting opportunities awaiting researchers.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 30, 2003	Subjects History of Science History of Print History of Medicine
	A Bibliographical Avocation: The Lester King Collection For the exhibit, Dr. King has chosen books that illustrate his view of the foundations of eighteenth century medical thought. This exhibit affords an opportunity to see these extraordinary books through the eyes of the man who has collected them, owned them, and used them in his own scholarly research.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Jan. 1, 1985	Subjects History of Medicine
	Dr. Bernard Fantus: Father of the Blood Bank In 1937, Dr. Bernard Fantus (1874-1940) established what is now recognized as the world's first blood bank when he opened a blood preservation laboratory at Chicago's Cook County Hospital.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 1, 2005	Subjects History of Medicine
	The Dr. Morris Fishbein Collection: An Exhibition of Selected Books in the History of Medicine and the Biological Sciences Works from the Dr. Morris Fishbein Collection, consisting of books from his personal library and others that support the research and teaching in the history of science and medicine.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 1 — Jan. 31, 1973	Subjects History of Medicine
	Imaging and Imagining: The Body as Text The Body as Text explores intersections between the arts and sciences across the history of anatomical representation and medical illustration of the human body.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 1, 2014	Subjects History of Medicine
	ReFraming Graphic Medicine: Comics and the History of Medicine Throughout the history of comics, the visual stories of health, illness and medical practice complement the traditional history of medicine. Spanning from the origins of comics to contemporary works of graphic medicine, this exhibit traces a unique visual history of the illness experience and the evolution of Western healthcare practices and broadens our understanding of how the history of medicine is constructed.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center May 9 — July 16, 2022 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History of Medicine Medicine Art
	Researching Chicago Medical History: Sources in the University of Chicago Library This exhibition highlights some of the most important archival source materials on Chicago medicine in the Special Collections Research Center, including selections from the medical manuscript collections originally acquired by the John Crerar Library.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Nov. 1 — Feb. 1, 2005	Subjects History of Medicine
	The Stork Club The materials in this exhibition were selected from the Morris Fishbein Papers. Dr. Morris Fishbein, physician, medical editor, writer, lecturer and prodigious fund-raiser, was associated with the American Medical Association from 1912-1948.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 1 — Dec. 1, 1980	Subjects History of Medicine