History of Medicine Seminars for 2011

December 5 (Mon) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD., Chief, History of Medicine Division, NLM, The Future of NLM's History of Medicine Division.
December 1 (Thurs) 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Dan Cohen, George Mason University, The Future of Digital History.
November 9 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
James Labosier, History of Medicine Division, NLM, Today began in 1872: Traces of the library John Shaw Billings inherited and how he expanded it.
October 27 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A
Stephen J. Greenberg, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, NIH, NLM at 175: A Librarian’s View.
September 26 (Mon) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A
David M. Morens, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, The Forgotten Indispensable Man: Joe Kinyoun and the Birth of NIH.
August 25 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Gareth Edel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Graduate Student “Summer of Seminars”: From Health Travel to Medical Tourism.
August 11 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Joy Getnick, SUNY – Albany, Graduate Student “Summer of Seminars”: The Drinking Age Debates.
August 9 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Christopher McDonald, Princeton University, Graduate Student “Summer of Seminars”: Biorhythms and the Limits of the Personal Computer Revolution.
May 17 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Jane E. Schultz, Indiana University, Nursing and Medicine at the Crossroads: A Civil War Nurse's Candid Testimony.
April 19 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Andrea Carlino, University of Geneva, Anatomy and Espionage: The Courtly Adventures of a Physician in Late Sixteenth Century France.
February 10 (Thurs) 10:00 -11:00 p.m. -- NLM Conference Room B, Building 38, Mezzanine
Jill L. Newmark, Exhibition Specialist/Registrar, National Library of Medicine, Within These Walls: Contraband Hospital and the African Americans Who Served There.
February 7 (Mon) 10:00 -11:00 p.m. -- NLM Conference Room B, Building 38, Mezzanine
Christie Moffatt, Manager, Digital Manuscripts Program, National Library of Medicine and Susan Speaker, Historian, Digital Manuscripts Program, National Library of Medicine, The National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Web site, featuring the newly-released collection on Charles R. Drew.
January 27 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
Ann Jannetta, University of Pittsburgh, Japan’s Vaccinators: Medicine as an Agent of Change in Nineteenth Century Japan.

Lecture Schedules for: 2012

Seminar Schedules for: 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997

NLM Special Programs for 2011

December 13 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A
Speakers TBA, Program welcoming the publication of Hidden Treasure: 175 Years of the National Library of Medicine.
Hispanic History Month Lecture
The Young Lords and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Public Health in New York.
Johanna Fernandez, PhD, Baruch College, CUNY
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
NLM Visitor Center, Building 38A.
Fourth Annual James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture
The Image of Modern Medicine: Aesthetic Belonging and the American Doctor, 1880-1950.
John Harley Warner, Yale University
Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Awareness Month Lecture
1987: AIDS in America.
Cindy Patton, Simon Fraser University
Thursday, June 2, 2011, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
NLM Visitor Center, Building 38A.
Asian American History Month Lecture
Picturing Yoga: Yogic Bodies and the Art of Transformation, 1700 to the Present.
Sita Reddy, Smithsonian Institution
Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 2:00 - 3:30 p.mp
NLM Visitor Center, Building 38A.
Women's History Month Lecture
Reproductive Technologies and the Posthuman Future: Are We There Yet?
Val Hartouni, University of California – San Diego
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A.
African American History Month Lecture
Intensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War.
Margaret Humphreys, Duke University
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A