History of Medicine Lectures for 2012

September 26 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
Frederick W. Gibbs, PhD; Assistant Professor of History, Department of History and Art History Director of Digital Scholarship, Center for History and New Media George Mason University, "The Venoms Doo Cure the Diseases": Separating Poison and Medicine in Early Modern Europe.
July 13 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
Cassedy Memorial Lecture
John Parascandola, PhD (retired chief, HMD; Adjunct Professor, Dept. of History, University of Maryland, College Park)., "Pharmacology and Folklore: The Arsenic Eaters of Styria".
June 18 (Mon) 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
LGBTQ Awareness Month
Victoria Harden, PhD (retired NIH Historian), AIDS Research and the Gay Community.
May 30 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
Sunmin Lee, PhD, School of Public Health/Asian-American Studies Program, University of Maryland – College Park, Model Minority Myth: Health Disparities in Asian American Communities.
May 1 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
Simon Chaplin, Director, Wellcome Library, Digitizing the Foundations of Modern Genetics: Challenges and Opportunities.
April 19 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
Michael F. Suarez, S.J., D.Phil., Director, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, The Future for Books in a Digital Age.
March 22 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
A panel discussion with Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN; Cynthia Anne Connolly, PhD, RN, FAAN; and Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Nursing History and Health Policy: Moving from Advocacy to Analysis.
February 28 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
Gail Kern Paster, Ph.D., Folger Shakespeare Library, Shrew Taming and Other Tales of the Four Humors.
February 2 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A
Dr. Wanda Whitten-Shurney, CEO/Medical Director, Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc., Michigan Chapter, Introducing Dr. Charles Whitten: Scientist, Humanitarian, Family Man Introducing Dr. Charles Whitten: Scientist, Humanitarian, Family Man.

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