2002/2003 History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

Wednesday, 6 November 2002, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
DEBORAH LEIGH BLUM, MA
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication
The Cloth Monkey: The Life of Harry Harlow
Professor Blum is a Pulitzer Prizewinning science writer -- for her newspaper reporting about primate experiments and ethics, a professor of journalism, and Vice President of the National Association of Science Writers. She wrote Sex on the Brain, a 1997 New York Times Notable Book, and The Monkey Wars, a 1994 Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book. Her current book, Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, was published in October 2002.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Biomedical Ethics.
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Wednesday, 20 November 2002, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
ANDREA TONE, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology School of History, Technology, and Society
Bodies of Evidence: Locating the Lost World of American Birth Control
Dr. Tone is the author of Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America (2001). The book has been featured on national television and radio programs, including ABC World News Now and National Public Radio’s Science Friday; it was named one of the best books of the year (2001, social issues category) by the Washington Post.
Co-sponsored with Humanities in Medicine.
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Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
JEANNE GUILLEMIN
Senior Fellow, MIT Security Studies Program and
Professor of Sociology at Boston College
The 1979 Sverdlvosk Anthrax Outbreak: Researching Bioterrorism
Professor Guillemin’s book, Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak (1999), recounts the scientific inquiry into the source of the 1979 anthrax outbreak in the closed Soviet city of Sverdlovsk. She was a member of the team that identified the military cause of the lethal outbreak. During the anthrax scares of 2001 Guillemin was highly sought after by television and radio news programs as a knowledgeable spokesperson about the disease.
Co-sponsored with Humanities in Medicine.
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Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
PEYTON T. TAYLOR, JR., MD
Richard N. and Louise R. Crockett Professor and
Medical Director, University of Virginia Cancer Center
From Dunglison to Osler to Harrison: Principles and Practice of Medicine in Three Giant Steps
Dr. Taylor will reprise a presentation he gave at the Alpha Omega Alpha, the National Medical Honor Society, on the occasion of the organization’s 2001 Centennial Celebration.
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Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
DUANE J. OSHEIM, PhD
Professor, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Identifying Diseases in the Past: Chroniclers and the Black Death
Professor Osheim specializes in medieval and Renaissance history. One of his major research and teaching interests is the plague and public health in Renaissance Europe.
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL KENNETH R. CRISPELL MEMORIAL HISTORY LECTURE
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