Histories of Latino/a and Latinx Medicine in California – A New Exhibit in Lane Library

At Lane Library, we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a new exhibit from our Medical History Center.

In 1883 Mariano Edward Gonzalez received his MD degree from Cooper Medical College – the school that later became Stanford University’s School of Medicine. He was one of the school’s first Latino graduates. But the histories of Latina, Latino, and Latinx medicine in California go back much further to the days when California was part of the Spanish Empire and, subsequently, part of Mexico. It is a history that continues down to the present at Stanford Medicine and throughout California.

You can learn more about this history in a new exhibit in Lane Medical Library. Visit the library to see the full exhibit!

An online version of the exhibit is also available in both English and Spanish on the Medical History Center website.

For more information about the exhibit, or to learn about additional resources to explore the histories of Latina, Latino, and Latinx medicine, please contact Dr. Drew Bourn in the Medical History Center in Lane Library, at: dbourn@stanford.edu