History of Medicine Seminars for 2001

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• January 10 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. David Cantor, "Radium, Cancer, and the Meanings of Hope in Mid-20th Century America"
  
  
• PROGRAM CANCELLED!
  February 14 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Eric Bailey, "The Cultural History of Afro-American Alternative Medicine"
  
  
• March 14 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Olivia Walling, "The Texas Longhorn and the Changing Milieu of Medicine, 1860 to 1900"
  
  
• April 11 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. John Swann, "Rainbow Diet Pills: The Limits of Regulation"
  
  
• May 16 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room G
  Dr. Phil Teigen, "The Mad Dog Excitement in Massachusetts: A Case Study of Rabies Before Pasteur"
  
  
• June 6 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B (Mezzanine)
  Dr. Nancy Dosch, "19th Century Hydropathic Therapeutics: Exercise as a Way to Wellness"
  
  
• September 26 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Shelley Mckellar, "Surgery in 20th Century Canada: Innovations of Dr. Gordon Murray"
  
  
• October 24 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Paul Theerman, "Psychiatry in the Service of Society: Dr. Julius Schreiber and the Institute of Social Research in Mid-20th Century America"
  
  
• November 13 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Bernard Unti, "The S.P.C.A. as a Gilded Age American Public Health Agency"
  
  
• December 19 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Prof. Elizabeth A. Fenn, "Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82"

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

NLM Special Lectures for 2001

• African American History Month Lecture
  February 14 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Michael Blakey, Howard University,
  "New York's African Burial Ground and the Struggle for Human Rights"
  

History of Medicine Seminars for 2000

• January 12 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Miriam C. Meijer, "Early 20th Century Ethics in Practice: Nancy B. Jenison, M.D."
  
  
• February 9 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room E
  Dr. Marcia L. Meldrum, "Pain without Cause: The Medical and Cultural Evolution of Causalgia"
  
  
• March 8 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg., 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Stephen Greenberg, "Plague, the Printing Press, and Public Health in London"
  
  
• April 26 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Alain Touwaide, "Medieval Transfers of Medical Knowledge in the Mediterranean: Byzantium, Bagdad, Salerno"
  
  
• May 3 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. David H. Serlin, "Reconstructing the 'Hiroshima Maidens': Plastic Surgery in the 1950s"
  
  
• June 21 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room D
  Dr. K. Walter Hickel, "War and the Politics of Disability in 20th Century America"
  
  
• September 20 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. - - Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Simon Baatz, Historian, NLM, "The French Connection: Pathological Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1820-1845"
  
  
• October 11 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. - - Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. James H. Cassedy, "Taking Historical Liberties with John Shaw Billings?: the Significance of the Surgeon General's Library"
  
  
• November 22 (Wed) 2:00-3:15pm - - Bldg 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Edward T. Morman, "Preservation in Libraries and the Future of Medical History"
  
  
• December 13 (Wed) 2:00-3:15pm - - Bldg 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Dale C. Smith, "Smallpox Vaccination in the 19th Century American Army"

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

History of Medicine Seminars for 1999

• January 14 (Thurs) 2:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Jerrold M. Post, "When Illness Strikes the Leader: the 20th Century"
  
  
• February 17 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher, Conf. Room F 1 and 2
  Dr. Carlos Espinel, "ArtMedicine: Discoveries in Medicine through the Scientific Study of Art"
  
  
• March 17 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Claire Sherman, "The Hand, the Body, and the Mind as Represented in Renaissance Art"
  
  
• April 14 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room F
  Prof. Harry Marks, "Pellagra Revisited: The Social History of Death"
  
  
• June 9 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room D
  Prof. Nicholas A. Casner, "The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health in Western United States"
  
  
• July 8 (Thurs) 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room A
  Dr. Michael Sappol, "The First U.S. Sex Education Book for Children, 1875"
  
  
• September 22 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. --Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room F
  Dr. David M. Morens, "Death in the Cannibal Islands, 1875: History of an Emerging Infectious Disease"
  
  
• October 13 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. --Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room E
  Prof. Luke Demaitre, "'The Hidden Terrors of the Abdomen': The Viscera in Early Anatomy"
  
  
• November 17 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. --Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room F
  Dr. Allen B. Weisse, "Problems and Pains of American Medical Certification"
  
  
• December 8 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. --Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Prof. Daniel P. Todes, "Earning a Nobel Prize: Pavlov and Russian Physiology before 1904"

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

NLM Special Lectures for 1999

• African American History Month Lecture
  February 11 (Thurs), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  
  Theme: "The African-American Medical Experience: Perspectives and Prospects"
  
  
  • Congressman Albert Wynn (4th Maryland Congressional District)
  • Prof. David McBride, Pennsylvania State University
  
  
  
• Women's History Month Lecture
  March 24 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Regina Morantz-Sanchez, University of Michigan, "The Life of Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones"

History of Medicine Seminars for 1998

• January 14 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room D
  Dr. Joseph Marchese, "Reorganization of Air Force Medical Services after WWII"
  
  
• February 3 (Tues), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room G
  Dr. Jill Jonnes, "Problems of Illicit Drugs in 20th Century America"
  
  
• March 4 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room F
  Mr. William H. Helfand, "The Artist looks at Disease and Death"
  
  
• April 8 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Karen Reeds, "St. John's Wort, Then and Now: Herbals and their Users Across Five Centuries"
  
  
• May 19 (Tues), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Warren T. Reich, "Betrayal of Care: The Moral Origins of Nazi Medical Abuses"
  
  
• June 24 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room A
  Dr. Richard D. Semba, "Cod Liver Oil Therapy in Early Twentieth Century Ophthalmology"
  
  
• July 8 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room D
  Dr. Suzanne White-Junod, "Politics and the 20th Century Regulation of Homeopathy: Dr. Royal S.Copeland"
  
  
• September 23 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room D
  Prof. Theodore M. Brown, "History of Psychosomatic Medicine in the U.S."
  
  
• November 3 (Tues), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Prof. Robert G. Frank, "The Dissemination of Laboratory Medicine in 19th Century America--William H. Welch"
  
  
• October 20 (Tues), 2:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Ruth Harris, "Dental Research from Fluoridation to AIDS"
  
  
• December16 (Wed), 3:00 p.m. -- Lister Hill Auditorium
  Prof. John C. Burnham, "De-Institutionalizing Mental Patients in the 1950s: One City's Experience"

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

NLM Special Lectures for 1998

• African American History Month Lecture
  February 5 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Gerard Fergerson, "The Forgotten Radicals: Health Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s"
  
  
• Women's History Month Lecture
  March 23 (Mon), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Marilyn Yalom, "The Breast: A Cultural History"

History of Medicine Seminars for 1997

• January 15, 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg.
  Dr. Miriam Meijer, "Buffon and 18th Century Theories of Race"
  
  
• March 26, 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg.
  Dr. Gert Brieger, "Trends and Prospects for the Field of Medical History in the United States"
  
  
• April 30, 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Fred Spielman, "The Art of Anesthesiology: An Illustrated History of Pain Control"
  
  
• June 18 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Dr. Ben Z. Swanson, "The National Museum of Dentistry: Programs and Exhibits"
  
  
• August 7 (Thur), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room A
  Dr. Russell C. Maulitz, "A Pilot Project to Digitize the Surgeon General's Index Catalogue"
  
  
• September 30 (Tues), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38, Conf. Room B
  Dr. Joel Howell, "Information Technology in the Early 20th Century American Hospital"
  
  
• November 25 (Tues), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room F
  Dr. Catherine Waldby, "A Look at the Visual Human Project: The Trace of Anatomy--from the Body in the Book to the Body on the Screen"
  
  
• December 5 (Fri), 2:00 p.m. -- Natcher Bldg., Conf. Room D
  Dr. Lisa Yarkony, "Public Health in 19th Century Lyon, France"

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

NLM Special Lectures for 1997

• Women's History Month Lecture
  February 19 (Wed), 2:00 p.m. --Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Spencie Love, "'One Blood': Charles R. Drew, M.D. and a Mythic Prescription for our Time"
  
  
• African American History Month Lecture
  March 20 (Thur), 2:00 p.m. -- Bldg. 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Judith W. Leavitt, "Personal Liberty or the Public Health: The Story of Typhoid Mary"

Last reviewed: 09 April 2008
Last updated: 24 September 2007
First published: 01 October 2002
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