Past Events by Category
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
When People are Data: How Medical History Matters for Our Digital Age
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Joanna Radin, PhD- Associate Professor, Program in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University
Category: History
Research Symposium: Reporting, Recording, and Remembering the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, Chief, History of Medicine Division, NLM, NIH; E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Virginia Tech; Nancy Bristow, PhD, University of Puget Sound.
Category: History
The Girl in the Lion Cage: Regulating Hypnotism in Nineteenth Century France
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Katrin Schultheiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History, George Washington University
Category: History
Biomedical Research in France and Its Institutionalization, 1940–1970: At the origins of INSERM
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Pascal Griset, Director, Institute of Science Communication; Professor, Modern History, Sorbonne Université, France
Category: History
The World Health Organization’s Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978: What Was It Then, Where Is It Now?
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Ted Brown, PhD, Professor of History and Medical Humanities, University of Rochester
Category: History
James Cassedy History of Medicine Lecture - Mind-Body Problems: Lobotomy, Science, and the Digital Humanities
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Miriam Posner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Information Studies Department, University of California Los Angeles
Category: History
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and His Influence in the Changing Business of Healthcare and the Delivery of American Medicine
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Andrew T. Simpson, Ph.D., 2017 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Category: History
Viral Networks, Reconnected: A Digital Humanities/History of Medicine Research Forum
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Brett Bobley, Director, Official of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for Humanities; E. Thomas Ewing, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech; Katherine Randall, doctoral candidate in rhetoric and writing, Department of English, Virginia Tech; Jeffrey S. Reznick, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, NIH
Category: History