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History of Medicine Seminars for 2007

  • December 12 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    Peter Keating, Université du Québec à Montréal, "Who's Minding the Data? A History and Sociology of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Cancer Trials."
      - Comment by Michael Proschan, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

  • December 3 (Mon) 4:00 - 6:00 p.m -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
    Bernadette Wegenstein, "Made Over in America." (Film Premier)

  • November 6 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    Joint Program with the Washington Society for the History of Medicine Kathryn Hoffmann, University of Hawaii, Manoa, "When Sleeping Beauty Walked Out of the Anatomy Museum: Anatomical Shows that Inspired Art, Made Fairground Fame, and Altered the Face of a Saint."

  • October 31 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
    Anita Guerrini, PhD, University of California - Santa Barbara, "Animals, Anatomy, and Natural History in Louis XIV's Paris."

  • October 25 (Thu) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    Isabelle Dussauge, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden, "Anatomy Remediated: Aligning Recent and Older Technomedical Gazes."

  • October 18 (Thu) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    Leslie Adrienne Miller, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, "The Resurrection Trade: A Poetry Reading."

  • August 29 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    Courtney Fullilove, Columbia University, "Proprietary Medicines & the Development of Intellectual Property Rights in 19th Century America."

  • August 21 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    Rachel Core, Johns Hopkins University, "Controlling TB to Boost Production: the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association and China's First Five Year Plan."

  • August 1 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    Kristen Ehrenberger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Telescopic Body: Visualizations Of Normal Anatomy And Social Pathology In Weimar Germany."

  • July 25 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
    Marie Jenkins Schwartz, University of Rhode Island, "Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South."

  • April 17 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
    Adriane Fugh-Berman, Georgetown University, "Pursuing the Hormonal Fountain of Youth: 1889 to the Present."

  • February 21 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
    Richard Sha, American University, "A Physiology of the Imagination: Romanticism, Pathology, Transcendence."

  • January 29 (Mon) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
    John A. Buchtel, Johns Hopkins University, "The *OTHER* Hopkins Collections: Rare Books at the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University."

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NLM Special Programs for 2007

  • African American History Month Lecture
    "No Boundaries: A Cancer Surgeon's Odyssey and the Contributions of African American Surgeons to Medicine."
    LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., MD.
    Monday, February 26, 2007, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
    Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

  • Womens' History Month Lecture
    "Leona Baumgartner and the New York Department of Public Health: Déjà Vu All Over Again."
    Julia Frank, MD, George Washington University,
    Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
    Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

  • Asian-American History Month Lecture
    "The Case of SARS and Chinese Medicine."
    Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University
    Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
    Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Awareness Month Lecture
    "United in Anger: A History of Act-Up."
    Sarah Schulman and James Hubbard, Act-Up Oral History Project
    Thursday, June 7 2007, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
    Bldg 45, Natcher Center Balcony B

  • Hispanic History Month Lecture
    "A Fever For Empire: U.S. Disease Eradication in Cuba as Colonial Public Health"
    Mariola Espinosa, PhD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Tuesday
    Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
    Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A