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Past Events by Category

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

Read more 251 views - Runtime: 01:16:55
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

Read more 327 views - Runtime: 01:03:06
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

Read more 1,110 views - Runtime: 01:29:56
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate
Category: History

Read more 351 views - Runtime: 01:02:54
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

Read more 836 views - Runtime: 00:59:06
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

Read more 335 views - Runtime: 00:53:03
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

Read more 1,346 views - Runtime: 01:08:35
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

Read more 239 views - Runtime: 00:56:22
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

Read more Watch on YouTube 357 views - Runtime: 01:02:08
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

Read more 239 views - Runtime: 01:01:30