Schedule of Events, 2005-06

Thursday, September 22, 2005, 6:15 PM Co-sponsored by the Section on Public Health
SAMUEL ROBERTS, PHD (HISTORY, AND HISTORY AND ETHICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY).
“Between Geography and Heredity (Especially of African-Americans): Interpreting House Infection Theory in the Early U.S. Anti-Tuberculosis Movement”

Thursday, October 20, 2005, 6:15 PM
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.”

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 7:30 PM
Special program on the history of nephrology, to commemorate “Renal Week” in Philadelphia
STEVEN PEITZMAN, MD (MEDICINE, DREXEL UNIVERSITY)
"Finally Showing How the Kidney Works: A. N. Richards and Micropuncture in Philadelphia, 1921-1924”
SANDRA MOSS, MD (MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY)
“Everything But the Kitchen Sink: Inventing the Artificial Kidney”

Thursday, March 16, 2006, 6:15 PM
The 2006 Kate Hurd-Mead Lecture [Co-sponsored by the Drexel University College of Medicine]
JOAN LYNAUGH, PHD,RN, FAAN (FORMER DIRECTOR, BARBARA BATES CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF NURSING, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)
“Nursing the Great Society: Impact of the Nurse Training Act of 1964”

All the above lectures are free and open to all.

Sunday, April 9, 2006, 10:00 AM
HISTORY OF MEDICINE WALKING TOUR [details, including cost, to be announced. Registration will be limited]

Special Lecture Series organized by the Wood Institute for the History of Medicine and supported by the Barra Foundation

“THE MEDICAL WORLD OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”

[Free to Fellows of the College of Physicians and members of the Section on Medical History. For others, pre-registration is $25 for the series, or $10 for each lecture. For students and others of low income: $12 for the series, or $5 per lecture. Registration at the door: $15 or $8 for students]

Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 6:15 PM
LISA ROSNER, PHD (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STOCKTON COLLEGE)
“Poor Richard’s Recipes: Franklin and Popular Medicine in 18th-Century Philadelphia”

Thursday, May 11, 2006, 6:15
TOBY GELFAND, PHD (HANNAH CHAIR OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA)
“Franklin and the Medical World of Paris”

Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 6:15
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM (RESEARCH FELLOW, HISTORY OF MEDICINE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY)
“A Number of Friends: Benjamin Franklin and the Medical Reformers of London.”