History of Medicine Seminars for 2009

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• January 14 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Gail Kern Paster, Folger Shakespeare Library, "The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and the History of Medicine in Shakespeare."

• April 15 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor Center
  Catherine Kudlick, University of California - Davis, "Disability History and History of Medicine: Rival Siblings or Conjoined Twins?"

• May 12 (Tue) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor Center
  Christian Warren, The New York Academy of Medicine & Brooklyn College, "Rickets: Hubris and Neglect in American Public Health."

• August 6 (Thur) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor Center
  R. Allen Shotwell, Indiana University - Bloomington, "The Anatomist and the Book in the Early Sixteenth Century."

• August 13 (Thur) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor Center
  Julia F. Irwin, Yale University, "Poster Children and the Construction of American International Identity."

• August 27 (Thur) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Visitor Center
  Miriam Posner, Yale University, "Conventions of Display: Cultures of Exhibition in Twentieth-Century Medicine."

• September 9 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Helen Horowitz, Smith College, "Underneath the Whirls: Rethinking Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sex, Nervous Breakdown, and S. Weir Mitchell."

• November 4 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, Lister Hill Auditorium
  Professor Rashid Bashshur, University of Michigan
  Professor Gary Shannon, University of Kentucky
  "The History of Telemedicine."

• November 19 (Thur) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. -- Bldg 38A, NLM Visitor Center
  Prof. Andrea Tone, McGill University, "The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers."

Seminar Schedules for: 2008   2007   2006   2005   2004   2003   2002   2001   2000   1999   1998   1997

NLM Special Programs for 2009

• Black History Month Lecture
  "Opening Doors: Celebrating the Journey and Achievements of African American Academic Surgeon"
  Margaret A. Hutto, The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
  Jill L. Newmark, National Library of Medicine
  Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
  Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

• Women's History Month Lecture
  "Student Bodies"
  Heather Prescott, Central Connecticut State University
  Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
  Lister Hill Visitor Center, Building 38A

• Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian and Transgender (GBLT) Awareness Month Lecture
  "Derek Jarman's Six-Pronged Attack on AIDS"
  William Pencak, Professor of History and Jewish Studies
  The Pennsylvania State University
  Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
  Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

• Second Annual James Cassedy Memorial Lecture
  "The Information RX"
  Nancy Tomes, Professor
  Stony Brook University
  Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
  Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A

• Hispanic History Month Lecture
  "Gender, the Maize God, and the Politics of Fertility: Mayan Ritual Bloodletting in Ancient Mesoamerica"
  Gerardo Aldana, Professor
  University of California at Santa Barbara
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m
  Lister Hill Visitor Center, Building 38A

Last reviewed: 12 November 2009
Last updated: 12 November 2009
First published: 25 November 2008
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