History of Medicine Seminars for 2007

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• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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 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."

• 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."

• 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 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."

• 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."

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

• 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

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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

Last reviewed: 09 April 2008
Last updated: 25 October 2007
First published: 06 October 2006
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