CONFERENCE

Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics

December 5-6, 2005

**If you missed the conference and would like to watch the lectures online, please go to: http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp to watch the videocast. Thank you!

The Office of NIH History is sponsoring a major two-day conference to be held in the Lister Hill Auditorium (Building 38A) on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, on December 5-6, 2005.  The conference is to honor Dr. Victoria A. Harden, Director, Office of NIH History, on her retirement.

The keynote speaker will be evolutionary geneticist and social critic Richard C. Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University, who will discuss "The Effects of the Socialization of Biomedical Research." 

The NIH community, scientists, historians of medicine and science, and the interested public are invited.  Questions should be addressed to Dr. Caroline Hannaway, conference organizer, at hannawayc@mail.nih.gov.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Monday, 5 December 2005

Lister Hill Auditorium, NIH

Monday, 5 December 2005

8:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks & Introduction of Speaker
Caroline Hannaway (National Institutes of Health)
Michael Gottesman (National Institutes of Health)

Alan Schechter (National Institutes of Health)

8:45 a.m. Keynote Address
Richard C. Lewontin (Harvard University), “The Effects of the Socialization of Biomedical Research”

9:30 a.m. Coffee break

9:45 a.m. Morning Session
Chair: Caroline Hannaway

Daniel Kevles (Yale University), “Genes, Disease, and Patients: Cash and Community in Biomedicine”

Angela Creager (Princeton University), “Virus Research Between Lay Health Organizations and the Government, 1935-1955"

Bernardino Fantini (University of Geneva), “From Genetic Diseases to the Genetics of Disease: The Evolution of Theories of Genetic Determinism and the Implications for Health Strategies”

12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Afternoon Session
Chair: Alan Kraut (American University)

Guenter Risse (University of California, San Francisco), “House of Science: Clinical Investigation in Hospitals”

Susan Lederer (Yale University), “Transplant Nation: Heart Transplants and the NIH”

3:00–3:15 p.m. Coffee break

3:15 p.m. Buhm Soon Park (National Institutes of Health), “‘Why Does NIH Need an Intramural Program?’ Biomedical Research in the Federal Government after World War II”

Carsten Timmermann (University of Manchester), “Clinical Research in Post-War Britain: The Role of the Medical Research Council”

6:30 p.m. Conference Reception and Dinner, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bethesda


Tuesday, 6 December 2005

8:30 a.m. Introduction

8:45 a.m. Morning Session
Chair: Elizabeth Fee (National Library of Medicine)

J. Rogers Hollingsworth (University of Wisconsin), “The Path Dependency of Institutional and Organizational Factors that Shape Major Scientific Discoveries”

Keith Wailoo (Rutgers University), “The Cultural Politics of Pain and Pain Research in America, 1950-2000"

10:15–10:30 a.m. Coffee break

10:30 a.m. Gerald N. Grob (Rutgers University), “The National Institute of Mental Health and Mental Health Policy, 1946-1965"

Darwin Stapleton (Rockefeller Archive Center), “The Critical Role of Laboratory Instruments at the Rockefeller: Biomedicine as Biotechnology”

12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Afternoon Session
Chair: Suzanne Junod (FDA)

Warwick Anderson (University of Wisconsin), “The Global Reach of United States Biomedical Research”

Leo B. Slater (National Institutes of Health), “The Shape of Infectious Disease Research: Antimalarial Drugs, 1920-1950”

3:00-3:15 p.m. Coffee break

3:15  p.m. Stuart Blume (University of Amsterdam), "Towards a History of  'the Vaccine Innovation System,' 1950-2000"

David Cantor, “Radium, Cancer Research, and the End of the New Deal”

4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
Caroline Hannaway

TO REGISTER:

Send an email to: hannawayc@mail.nih.gov with the subject line: Biomedicine Conference.

Include the following information: Your name, your institutional affiliation, your mailing and email addresses.

Please note:

• There will be a banquet for the conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda at 6:30pm on Monday, December 5. The cost for the banquet is $60.00. Those wishing to attend should send a check for that amount made out to FAES and mail it to:

Dr. Caroline Hannaway

Office of NIH History

National Institutes of Health

Building 31/Room 5B38/MSC 2092

Bethesda, MD 20892-2092

Checks must be received by November 30th. Please note: NIH mail takes extra time to arrive. If you have any questions, email Dr. Hannaway at hannawayc@mail.nih.gov. If you require a vegetarian option, please let us know when you mail your check.

• More information on security and transportation issues for visitors to the NIH campus can be found here.

  Please note: Non-NIH employees should plan to allow extra time for vehicle inspection and obtaining a visitor's pass to the NIH campus. Visitors arriving by vehicle should enter at the Rockville Pike & South Drive entrance. Access to NIH by Metro's red line (at Medical Center) remains convenient and is recommended. Further visitor information, including detailed directions, shuttle information, and maps of the NIH campus, may be obtained at http://www.nih.gov/about/visitorsecurity.htm and http://dtts.ors.od.nih.gov/visitor_access_map.htm .