History of Medicine Seminars for 2008

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• January 7 (Mon) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitors Center
  Joint meeting with the Washington Society for the History of Medicine
  Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University, "The Birth of a New Profession: Nurse Midwifery in America"

• January 31 (Thurs) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Mark Dimunation, Library of Congress, "Forged in Fire: Reconstructing Thomas Jefferson’s Library"

• March 19 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Catherine Rakow, LCSW, "Contributions to Bowen Family Systems Theory from the National Institute of Mental Health Research Project 1954-1959"

• April 16 (Wed) 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Joint program with the Washington Society for the History of Medicine and the Office of NIH History
  Guenter Risse, University of California, San Francisco/ University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, "Bridging The East-West Divide: Genesis Of A Chinese Hospital In San Francisco"

• April 23 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Christine Ruggere, Johns Hopkins University, "Doctors' Ladies" or Another Look at Chinese Diagnostic Manikins.

• May 7 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Joint program with the Office of NIH History
  Edmund Ramsden, London School of Economics, "Finding humanity in rat city: John B. Calhoun's experiments in crowding at the NIMH."

• July 15 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Robert Martensen, NIH History Office, First Annual James Cassedy Memorial Lecture, "Medicine by the Numbers: Revisiting James Cassedy's America."

• July 24 (Thur) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Chin Jou, Princeton University, "Prescribing Bodies: Medical Critiques of Fat and Thin, 1890-1930."

• August 13 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Nicole Archambeau, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Despair as Sickness and Sin at the Time of the Black Plague."

• September 23 (Tues) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, moved to Lister Hill Auditorium
  Stanley Joel Reiser, MD, MPA, PhD, George Washington University, "Universal Health Insurance Provided by Government: Explaining Historically Why America Has Resisted This Concept."

• October 24 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Mark Waddell, Michigan State University, Viper’s Flesh and Unicorn’s Horn: The Quest for a Magical Panacea

• November 21 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor's Center
  Lester Friedman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, "Through the Looking Glass: Medicine and Media."

• December 17 (Wed) 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Bulent Atalay, PhD, University of Mary Washington, "Leonardo and the Unity of Art and Science"

Seminar Schedules for: 2009   2007   2006   2005   2004   2003   2002   2001   2000   1999   1998   1997

NLM Special Programs for 2008

• African American History Month Lecture
  "New Histories for New Politics: Making African-American Health History Matter."
  Samuel Roberts, Columbia University
  Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
  Lister Hill Center, Building 38A

• Women's History Month Lecture
  "Reading the Written Body: Our Bodies, Ourselves"
  Susan Wells, Temple University
  Monday, March 31, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
  Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

• Asian-American History Month Lecture
  "From White Woman's Burden to Orientalized Motherhood: The Strange Career of Dr. "Mom" Chung."
  Judy Wu, Ohio State University
  Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
  Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Awareness Month Lecture
  "Safe Space?: Risk, LGBT Anti-Violence Activism, and the Unequal City"
  Christina B. Hanhardt,
  Assistant Professor, American Studies Core Faculty, LGBT Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
  Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
  Lister Hill Visitors Center, Building 38A

• Hispanic History Month Lecture
  "Locating Latinos: Medicine and the Borderlands of Citizenship"
  Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin College
  Monday, October 6, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
  Lister Hill Visitor's Center, Building 38A

Last reviewed: 17 December 2008
Last updated: 17 December 2008
First published: 24 September 2007
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