Past Events by Category
Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine: A Laboratory of Humanitarianism: Military and Civilian Captivity during the First World War
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Matthew Stibbe, PhD, Professor of Modern European History, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, and 2019 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow
Category: History
The Measure of Black (Un)Fitness: Legacies of Slavery in the Early Eugenics Movement
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Rana A. Hogarth, PhD, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Category: History
George Deacon and the Circulation of Homeopathic Therapies in Peru (1880-1915)
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Patricia Palma, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Tarapacá, Arica, Chile
Category: History
The Evolution of Minority Health Research
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
Category: History
What History Reveals: Slavery and the Development of U.S. Gynecology
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD, The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine & Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Category: History
Narratives of Pandemics Past: Archival Approaches to Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Alexandre White, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine
Category: History
Molecular Medicine in the War on Cancer: Success or Failure?
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Robin Scheffler, Ph.D., Science, Technology, and Society Program, MIT
Category: History
A Galaxy of Genius? The Enduring Dream of Controlling Human Heredity
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Nathaniel Comfort, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Category: History
Reframing Lessons from the Syphilis Study Done at Tuskegee (1932-1972) to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Vaccine Hesitancy to Vaccine Confidence
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, Professor of Health Policy & Management, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Director of Maryland Center for Health Equity
Category: History
Peril in the Air: Pollution Activism on Film
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Sarah Eilers, MA, MLS, Archivist, Manager, Historical Audiovisuals, History of Medicine Division, NLM, NIH and Angela Saward, Wellcome Collection, London
Category: History