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The Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia will be presenting a full semester's series of seminars this spring. This series is co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, Department of History and Sociology of Science, and Program in Health and Society.
Meetings will be at 12:00 noon on Wednesdays and will alternate between the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (CPP) and the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing (CSHN). For directions, please contact the Center (215-898-4502 or nhistory@pobox.upenn.edu.)
The schedule of seminars follows
January 16 (CSHN): Cynthia Connolly, Ph.D., RN (Columbia University School of Public Health, and office of Sen. Paul Wellstone)
"History and the 'Hill': The Uses and Misuses of History in a Political Setting"
January 23 (CPP): Gerard Fitzgerald (Carnegie-Mellon University and Chemical Heritage Foundation)
"Engineering Droplet Nuclei: William Firth Wells, Aerobiology, and the Evolution of Airborne Disease, 1933-1947"
February 6 (CSHN): Julie Fairman, Ph.D., RN (University of Pennsylvania)
February 20 (CPP): Arthur Daemmrich (Cornell University and Chemical Heritage Foundation)
March 6 (CSHN): Jean Whalen, RN (University of Pennsylvania)
March 20 (CPP): Edward Leonard, M.D. (Friends Hospital)
April 3 (CSHN): Richard Leiby, Ph.D. (Rosemont College)
April 10 (CPP): Speaker and title TBA
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