To give those who can’t travel to Bethesda, Maryland to see it in person a lively virtual experience, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a new, free iPad app that captures the contents of its popular exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, currently on display. NLM is the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health.
The app lets users explore video interviews with tribal elders, healers and other prominent people who practice traditional medicine, Western medicine or a combination of both. From their unique experiences and perspectives, they weave a tapestry of stories of the vibrant and diverse cultures of and medicine ways practiced by Alaska Natives, Native Americans and Native Hawaiians. Other video clips provide an exhibition overview and highlights of the 4,400-mile journey of a totem pole specially crafted for the exhibition, from Washington state to the NIH campus in Bethesda.
Population of focus: Alaska Natives, Native Americans and Native Hawaiians
Links to resource:
- To download the free app, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nlm-native-voices/id521226050?mt=8, click on the blue “View in iTunes” button on the left, beneath the app logo, and follow instructions.
- View the exhibition website
Date: 2013
Organization: National Library of Medicine