History of Medicine Seminars for 2008

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"
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."
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
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.
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"
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"
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"
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"

Lecture Schedules for: 2012

Seminar Schedules for: 2011 2010 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