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
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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:
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
.
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