History of Medicine Seminars for 2006

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• January 17 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Carol Benedict, "Chinese Medical Uses of Tobacco, 1600-1800."

• February 1 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Susan Strasser, "Commodifying Lydia Pinkham: The Woman, The Medicine, The Company"

• March 10 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Marcos Cueto, "The Origins of the World Health Organization"

• April 19 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Matthew Warner Osborn, "The Theater of Addiction: Delirium Tremens in Antebellum Philadelphia."

• April 21 (Fri) 4:00 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Joint Program with Washington Society for the History of Medicine: Daniel Williams, "The Politics of Abortion"

• May 12 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Marcel Bickel, "The Textbooks and Manuals of the History of Medicine, 1696-2000"

• June 14 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Christian Bonah, “We need for digitalis preparations what the state has established for serumtherapy …' From collecting plants to international standardization: the strophantin case, 1900-1935."

• July 26 (Wed) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Ryan Noah Shapiro, "And then came the Nuremberg Trials...' A.C. Ivy and the Myth of the Nazi Ban on Vivisection"

• August 15 (Tue) 2:00-3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Liping Bu, PhD, "Public Health and Chinese Society from the 1930s to SARS "

• September 20 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Angela Belli, "The Art of Medicine: An Historical Perspective"

• October 17 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Herbert Reynolds, MD, NHLBI, "How Laënnec Changed Medical Practice."

• November 8 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Eva Åhrén, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, "Chief White Fox and Professor von Düben: Anatomy and Racial Science in late 19th and early 20th century Sweden."

• December 12 (Tue) 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Laurie Block, Independent Filmmaker, "Cure & Contempt: The Exhaustion of Benevolence."

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

NLM Special Programs for 2006

• African American History Month Lecture
  "Race and Health: New Directions for the History of Medicine."
  Kirby Randolph
  Thursday, February 23, 2006, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
  Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

• Womens’ History Month Lecture
  "When Abortion was a Crime."
  Leslie Reagan
  Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
  Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

• Asian-American History Month Lecture
  "US Naval Medicine Encounters Samoa"
  Damon Salesa
  Thursday, May 18, 2006, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
  Lister Hill Visitor's Center, Building 38A

• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Awareness Month Lecture
  "Why Changing Sex Is Easier than Changing Medicine: An Insider's History of Intersex Medical Reform"
  Alice Dreger
  Thursday, June 22, 2006, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
  Lister Hill Visitor's Center, Building 38A

Last reviewed: 09 April 2008
Last updated: 24 September 2007
First published: 08 November 2005
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