Past Events by Category
Architecture and Mental Health Treatment: A Look Back at St. Elizabeths in Washington, D.C.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D., Curator, Capital Jewish Museum
Category: History
Dissecting Gender: Reframing Anatomical History Through the Female Body
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Allison Hill-Edgar, MD, MFA, Artist and Independent Scholar, New York Academy of Art, and the Fenimore Art Museum, and 2020 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow
Category: History
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate
Category: History
A Brief History of Eugenics in America: Implications for Medicine in the 21st Century
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Category: History
Placing Women in Medicine: Maude Abbott and the Archaeology of Friendships
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Annmarie Adams, PhD, Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine (Chair) and School of Architecture, McGill University
Category: History
Savages cry easily and are afraid of the dark: What It Means to Talk about Race and African American health
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Naa Oyo A. Kwate, PhD, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
Category: History
Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Ashley Bowen, Ph.D., Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, Science History Institute, Philadelphia
Category: History
Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Raymond S. Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center
Category: History
New Drugs, Old Problems: The Sulfonamide Revolution and Children’s Health Care Delivery in the United States, 1933-1949
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Cynthia Connolly, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
Category: History
DeBakey in Baghdad and Beirut: The Internationalization of Surgical Education, 1945–1970
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Sara Farhan, Ph.D., American University of Sarjah, 2019 NLM DeBakey Fellow
Category: History