SEMINARS

Work in Progress (WIPS) | Other Seminars

WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINARS (WIPS)

Unless otherwise stated the WIPS will be held as follows:

Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Locations:
Seminars will be held in a variety of locations; some off campus, some on campus. Locations will be announced with each pre-circulated paper.

For maps and visitor’s information see: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/index.htm

Format:
Papers are pre-circulated one week before the seminar. The seminar itself will open with a 5-10 minute introduction by the presenter. The remaining time will be devoted to discussion of the paper.

If you would like to participate in the WIPS, please email the organizer David Cantor, Ph.D. at cantord@mail.nih.gov and ask to be added to the mailing list. Please indicate which presentations you will be attending. Papers are only circulated to those attending seminars.

10/16/12
Pedigrees, Populations, and Politics: Conflicts Over Hereditary Disease in Britain Before the First World War
Judith Friedman, Office of History, National Institutes of Health

11/13/12
Stamping the Tramp: Newspapers and the Social Diffusion of Stigma toward the Undomiciled Poor in the United States, 1870-1929
Marian Moser Jones, Family Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park

12/11/12
Above the Law: Federal Efforts to Prevent Substance Abuse
Grischa Metlay, Office of History, National Institutes of Health

01/22/13
Imitation and Innovation: A Brief History of Me-too Drugs
Jeremy Greene, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

02/26/13
Traversing the Orthodox-Unorthodox Divide: The Early History of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, 1948-1991
Eric Boyle, National Museum of Health and Medicine

03/26/13
Curative Action: Joseph J. Kinyoun and the Diphtheria Antitoxin
Eva Åhrén, Office of History, National Institutes of Health

04/16/13
Academic Medicine's Changing Social Contract: From Medical Center to Health Sciences Center at the University of Oklahoma, 1950-1970
Sejal Patel, MITRE Corporation

05/07/13
The National Cancer Institute, scientific recruitment and film in the 1950s.
David Cantor, Office of History, National Institutes of Health