Third Annual NIH History
Day
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Above, left: the quilt's first square, created in 1987; Above, right: the quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1988.
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Please note: Non-NIH
employees may enter the NIH campus at only two
entrances: from Rockville Pike at South Drive and from Old Georgetown
Road at Center Drive. Your car will be stopped for inspection. You must
present a picture ID for admission to all NIH buildings and receive a
visitor's pass. Please leave enough time for these procedures. Access
to NIH by Metro's red line (at Medical Center) remains convenient and
is recommended. For detailed directions, shuttle information, and maps
of the NIH campus, click here.
For special accommodations, contact the Office of NIH History.
Office of NIH History
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room 5B38, MSC 2092
Bethesda, MD 20892-2092
Phone: 301 496 6610
Fax: 301 402 1434
Email: history@nih.gov
History Day Lecture
"'An Indescribable Experience': NIH Researchers and the AIDS
Epidemic, 1981-1990."
Victoria A. Harden, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health 11:00 am |
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Victoria A. Harden has done extensive research on the NIH response to the AIDS epidemic. In the 1980s and 1990s she interviewed dozens of NIH researchers, including scientists, administrators, and Clinical Center nurses about their experience.
Before beginning
her work on the history of AIDS research, she wrote Inventing the
NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937 (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1986) and, for the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth
Century Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). She has published
numerous articles about her research on AIDS history and is co-editor
of two books, AIDS and the Historian (NIH, 1989) and AIDS
and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (IOS
Press, 1995).
Above: Drs. Thomas Folks and Guido Poli discuss their AIDS research, c. 1985. For more photographs and documents related to the NIH response to AIDS see:
http://www.history.nih.gov/NIHInOwnWords/.
History Day 2005 T-shirts will be available at R&W stores!
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