Past Events by Category
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
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