Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 5:30 (reception), 6:30 (subscription dinner), 7:45 (lecture)
The First Sadoff Library Lecture on Legal Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry
Joseph Bloom, MD (Dean, Drexel University School of Medicine)
“A Twenty-Eight Year Follow-Up of Individuals Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Oregon”

Thursday, September 22, 2005, 6:15
The Section on Medical History presents:
Samuel Roberts, PhD (History, and History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University).
[Prof. Roberts will discuss his research on health and disease among African Americans in the nineteenth century]

Thursday, September 29, 2005, 6:15
The Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Award and Lecture
[Co-sponsored with the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine]
Audrey E. Evans, MD (Professor Emeritus, The University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Pediatric Urology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
“Health Care for Children, Then and Now”

Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 6:15
Section on Medicine and the Arts Salon
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD (Psychoanalyst, and Consulting Psychiatrist, The Curtis Institute of Music)
“The Last Days of Frederick Delius: Devotion, Collaboration and the Salvation of Music”

Thursday, October 20, 2005, 6:15
The Section on Medical History presents The 2005 Samuel X Radbill Lecture
Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD (History, Duke University)
“Immensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War.”

Thursday, November 10, 2005, 6:15
Section on Medical History
Speaker and topic to be announced.

Thursday, March 16, 2006, 6:15
The Section on Medical History presents The 2006 Kate Hurd-Mead Lecture
[Co-sponsored by with the Drexel University College of Medicine]
Joan Lynaugh, PhD,RN, FAAN (Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, and former Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursin)g.
Title to be announced [Dr. Lynaugh will discuss her historical research on education and the health professions].

Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 6:15
The Wood Institute for the History of Medicine presents “The Medical World of Benjamin Franklin” with funding from the Barra Foundation
Lisa Rosner, PhD (History, Stockton College)
“Poor Richard’s Recipes: Franklin and Popular Medicine in 18th-Century Philadelphia”

Thursday, May 11, 2006, 6:15
The Wood Institute for the History of Medicine presents “The Medical World of Benjamin Franklin” with funding from the Barra Foundation
Toby Gelfand, PhD (Hannah Chair of the History of MedicineUniversity of Ottawa)
“Franklin and the Medical World of Paris”

Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 6:15
The Wood Institute for the History of Medicine presents “The Medical World of Benjamin Franklin” with funding from the Barra Foundation
Andrew Cunningham, Cambridge University, England.
“A Number of Friends: Benjamin Franklin and the Medical Reformers of London.”

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