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digest 1998-01-29 #001


11:27 PM 1/28/98 -0800
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:38:34 -0800
From: Michael Sappol 
Subject: Brownbag Lunch Seminars
Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19103-3097
(215) 563-3737, ext. 297
HISTORY OF MEDICINE BROWNBAG LUNCH SEMINARS, SPRING 1998
Thursdays, 12:30-2:00PM.  Bring your own lunch; beverages are provided.
Feb. 19  James Trent (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,
Department of Social Work) "'Who Shall Say Who Is a Useful
Person':
Abraham Myerson and the Psychiatric Opposition to the Eugenics
Movement."
Feb. 26  Nancy Siraisi (Hunter College and Graduate Center, City
University of New York, History):  "In Search of the Origins of
Medicine: Egyptian Wisdom and Some 16th-Century Physicians."
Mar. 5  Sue Wells (Temple University, English): "Legible Bodies:
19th-Century Women Physicians and the Rhetoric of Dissection."
Mar. 12  Mike Sappol (Scholar-in-residence, Francis C. Wood Institute,
College of Physicians of Philadelphia):  " 'Anatomy Out of Gear':
The
Rise and Fall of the Popular Anatomical Museum in 19th-Century
America."
Mar. 19  Jennifer Tuttle (University of California at San Diego): Dr.
S.
Weir Mitchell and Literary and Medical Discourse in America, 1869-1911
Mar. 26   Rebecca MacLennan (Columbia University, History, History):
Prison Reform and Medical Models of Deviant Sexuality in the
Progressive
Era
Apr. 2  David Rosner (Columbia University, History Department and
School
of Public Health):  "The Professional Abandonment of Black Children
in
Post-World War II New York City."
Apr. 9 David Harley Serlin (New York University, American Studies):
"Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens: Cosmetic Surgery during the
Cold
War."
Apr. 16  Barbara Will  (Dartmouth College): Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and
Neurasthenia as an American Cultural Phenomenon, 1880-1915.
Apr. 23  Luise White (Emory University; Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington, DC):
" 'Bandages on your mouth':  experience and narrative in the
history of
colonial medicine in eastern Africa."
Apr. 30  Andrea Balis (Hunter College and City University of New York
Graduate Center):  "The Popular Reception of Sulfa Drugs"
This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Benjamin and Mary
Siddons Measey Foundation.