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Exhibition Review
"A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage."
Traveling exhibition. May 1999, Alexander
Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; June–Sept. 1999,
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and UMDNJRobert Wood Johnson Medical
School, New Brunswick, N.J.; Oct. 1999–Jan. 2000, UMDNJUniversity
Hospital & New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J.; Jan.–April
2000, Burlington County Historical Society, Burlington, N.J.; May 2000,
First Annual New Jersey Physicians Conference, Atlantic City, N.J.; May–July
2000, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, N.J.; Sept.–Dec. 2000,
Biomedical Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.;
Jan.–Feb. 2001, Merck & Co., Whitehouse, N.J. & Rahway, N.J.;
March–April 2001, UMDNJRobert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden,
N.J.; May–June 2001, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Co.,
Skillman, N.J.; Nov.–Dec. 2001, Bergen Regional Medical Center, Paramus,
N.J. (tentative). 24 15-sq.-ft. panels. Karen Reeds, exhibition curator;
David L. Cowin, honorary curator; Lou Storey, exhibition designer.
A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical
Heritage. By Karen Reeds. (Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
200 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8135-2933-6.)
Internet: dates, locations, downloadable
brochure <http://www.umdnj.edu/librweb/speccoll/exhibits.html>
(Sept. 25, 2001).
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The small traveling lobby exhibit is meant to be glimpsed in passing
and is often intended for a special audience—those working
in the building where it is displayed and those invited to the opening
of the exhibition. In the case of "A State of Health," the intended
audience includes pharmaceutical company workers; medical school
faculty, staff, and students; hospital employees and visitors; university
students and staff; and the security personnel found in all of these
institutions. I took it as a good sign, then, that when I visited
this exhibit at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden,
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Dr. Henry Leber Coit and his Babies' Hospital nurses
brought "certified milk" and sensible baby care advice
directly to mothers at the "Baby Keep Well" clinics
held weekly around Newark. In 1906, they distributed
a third of a million bottles of milk to five hundred
children. Courtesy The Newark Public Library.
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