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Past Events by Category

Merleau-Ponty, Descartes, and the Meaning of Painting

Thursday, June 23, 2022

William D. Adams, PhD, Former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Former President, Colby College
Category: History

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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A Galaxy of Genius? The Enduring Dream of Controlling Human Heredity

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Nathaniel Comfort, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Category: History

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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

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