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Head Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine

Education

• MLIS, University of South Carolina
• PhD, History of Medicine and Science, Yale University
• MA, History, Yale University
• MPhil, History of Medicine, University of Cambridge
• BA, Biological Sciences, Wellesley College

Areas of interest

• History of medicine
• Medical ethics
• Medieval and early modern medicine and natural history
• Religion and medicine
• Archives
• Preservation
• Book history

Selected publications

Hague-Yearl, M. 鈥溾�楧ear brother-in-trouble鈥�: Casey Wood鈥檚 enduring presence in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine.鈥� In Victoria Dickenson and Lauren Williams, eds., Special issue on Casey Albert Wood. Papers/Cahiers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. 2022; 59(1):151-175. DOI: . [Published 5 July 2023]

Dysert, A., & Hague-Yearl, M. (2023). Medieval Medical School: A primary source critical reading activity. In H. G. Rempel & R. Hamelers (Eds.),听Teaching critical reading skills: Strategies for academic librarians, Vol. 1: Reading in disciplines and for specific populations (pp. 33-43). American Library Association.

Yearl, M. 鈥�,鈥� Hektoen International. Winter 2020.

Yearl, M. 鈥�,鈥� Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2019;95:652-655. DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2019-137183.

Yearl, M. 鈥�.鈥� Postgraduate Medical Journal 2019;95:637-641. DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2019-136745.

Yearl, M. 鈥淢edicine for the wounded soul,鈥� Wounds in the Middle Ages, ed. Cordelia Warr and Anne Kirkham, Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 109-128.

Yearl, M. 鈥淏loodletting as recreation in the monasteries of medieval Europe,鈥� Between Text and Patient, ed. Eliza Glaze and Brian Nance, Florence: Sismel, 2011, pp. 217-243.

Selected talks and presentations

鈥淩eceived racism: teaching and learning about human variation in France, 1810s-1830s,鈥� American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 2022

鈥淢aude Abbott from a librarian鈥檚 perspective,鈥� Maude Abbott Symposium 2022, Montreal, QC, March 2022.

鈥淪tepping up when pleas for donations fall flat: documenting and collecting community responses to COVID-19,鈥� Society of American Archivists (SAA) annual meeting, August 2021.

鈥淐overing the feminine form in Osler鈥檚 Library and the Osler Library of the History of Medicine,鈥� Images et imaginaires du sexe f茅minin : discours et repr茅sentations, 16^e-21^e, Victoria, BC, May-June 2021.

With D. Cooper Owens, H. Tilley, and R. Vietrogoski, 鈥淔irst Do No Harm: Racism and Memory in the History of Medicine,鈥� Plenary workshop (virtual), AAHM Annual Meeting, May 2021.

鈥淩epresentation, unconscious bias, and suggestions of supremacy at the Osler Library,鈥� LAMPHHS (Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences) annual meeting, May 2021.

With H. Swick, 鈥淭he American Osler Society at Fifty: Preserving its Past and its Future,鈥� American Osler Society annual meeting, Pasadena CA, April 2021.

With F. Palluault, Virtual moderated discussion, 鈥淎ppreciating and preserving: archives and special collections,鈥� , Oxford University, March 2021.

Response: 鈥淗ow might we assess historical figures, such as Sir William Osler, given today鈥檚 societal values?鈥� , 海角社区, February 2021.听

鈥淭he humoral basis of race difference? Depictions of race in medicine within the holdings of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine,鈥� workshop to complement Jonathas de Andrade, Counter-Narratives and other Fallacies, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, October 2019.

鈥溾�楴ecessary for the doctor, unnecessary for the artist鈥�: the anatomical 茅tudes of Charles Monnet, Margaret Brooke, and Jean-Galbert Salvage,鈥� Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) and Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN), Vancouver, BC, June 2019.

鈥淔ire and the resilience of the Osler Library,鈥� American Osler Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, May 2019.

鈥淕ive blood and receive the spirit: monastic applications of an ancient medical practice,鈥� Angelical conjunctions: Crossroads of religion and medicine, 1200-1800, Montreal, QC, April 2019.

鈥淭he Wellesley College Artifacts Project,鈥� NEA Spring Meeting, Hyannis, MA, March 2017.

鈥淣ew paths in archival discovery,鈥� NEA Spring Meeting, Portland, ME, March-April 2016.

鈥淭he Pemberton Mill Relief Committee and the Economics of Industrial Medicine in 1860,鈥� AAHM Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT, April-May 2015.

Exhibitions

"The library represents the mind of its collector...and its curators," Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, January - August 2023

鈥淭he end of life from a historical perspective,鈥� Created to coincide with Projection Week, to encourage dialogue surrounding end-of-life decisions and care, RBSC reading room, McLennan Library, October 2019

鈥淭he human zoo: medicine and showbusiness,鈥� Curated to complement speaker series public conversation with Alberto Manguel and Susan Swan, October 鈥� December 2019

鈥淩eligion and medicine in the early modern period,鈥� RBSC reading room, McLennan Library, April 2019

鈥淒e musei fabrica,鈥� Osler Library of the History of Medicine, co-curated with Maude Abbott Medical Museum staff and Text鈥檃rt, Summer 2018

鈥淚mpossible Pathologies,鈥� Osler Library of the History of Medicine, co-curated with Larose-Osler Artist-in-Residence Lucy Lyons, Fall 2017

Teaching

• PIAT 4th-year medical student selective, "Representation in medicine," spring 2023; spring 2024

Professional Activities

• Board Member, Medical Heritage Library
• With colleagues from Wellcome Collection, working group co-convener, 鈥�,鈥� Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Awards, Honours, Fellowships

• Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) Publication Award, Best article 2020,听鈥�,鈥澨�Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2019;95:652-655. DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2019-137183.听
• Folger Institute Fellowship, 2020-2021. Project title: "Bloodletting in the first 150 years of printing: a window into vernacular medicine."
• Osler Librarian

Links

Yearl, M. with Jacquelyn Sundberg, "One minute wonder: K. Shibata's pocket phantom." February 2024. .

Yearl, M. with Greg Houston, 鈥淥ne minute wonder: Johannes Remmelin鈥檚 Catoptrum microcosmicum of 1619.鈥� February 2023. .

Alam, H. 鈥淪earch is on for rare Isaac Newton book, with three copies available in Canadian university libraries.鈥� The Canadian Press, 1 January 2021. Globe and Mail link:

Susan Schwartz, 鈥�,鈥� Montreal Gazette, 9 November 2019.

Material, research assistance, and non-verbal appearance on Radio-Canada, 鈥�,鈥� 15 September 2019.

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