THE PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY OF
MEDICINE is hosting many events throughout the spring semester. Their next
event is “Global to Local to Global Again: Immigrant and Refugee Health in Minnesota,”
on Friday, February 9 from 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM in Moos Tower Room 2-690 with
speakers Dr. Neal Holtan and Dr. William Stauffer. For a schedule of events, see below.
Upcoming Spring 2018 Lectures of Interest in the History of Medicine
Friday, Jan. 26, 2018
Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series
A Charles E. Culpeper Lecture in the History of Medicine
Speaker: Nancy Tomes, Dept. of History, Stony Brook University, “’Recovery’ as Concept, Model, and Movement in the Mental Health Field: The Challenge of Writing a ‘History of the Present’”
3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall
Friday, Feb. 9, 2018
Driven to Discover: The History of Minnesota’s Medical Innovations Lecture Series
Speakers: Dr. Neal Holtan, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Physician and Historian, and Dr. William Stauffer, Prof. of Medicine and Pediatrics, Univ. of Minnesota, "Global to Local to Global Again: Immigrant and Refugee Health in Minnesota."
12:15pm-1:15pm, Moos 2-690
**NOTE: Please be aware of day, time, and location!!
Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series
A Charles E. Culpeper Lecture in the History of Medicine
Speaker: Cynthia Connolly, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, “A ‘Big Business Built for Little Customers:’ Children and the Flavored Aspirin Market in the United States, 1948-1973.”
3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall
Friday, Feb. 23, 2018
Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series
Speaker: Nahyan Fancy, Dept. of History, Depauw University, “Did Humoral Theory Undergo any Changes in Post-Avicennian Medicine? Examples from the Commentaries of Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288) and his Successors in Western Eurasia.”
3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall
Monday, Mar. 5, 2018
Program in the History of Medicine Lunchtime Lecture Series
A Bruce and Sally Kantar Lecture in the History of Medicine
Speaker: Kim Heikkila, Ph.D., Oral Historian, author of Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam
12:20pm-1:10pm, 555 Diehl Hall
Friday, Mar. 23, 2018
Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series
A Charles E. Culpeper Lecture in the History of Medicine
Speaker: Rebecca Kluchin, Dept. of History, California State University-Sacramento, “Court-Ordered Cesarean Sections in 1980s America.”
3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall
Monday, April 30, 2018 (Please note this is LAST Monday of April)
Program in the History of Medicine Lunchtime Lecture Series
A C.C. and Dawn Clawson Lecture in the History of Medicine
Co-sponsored by the Environmental Humanities Initiative and the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine
Speaker: Nancy Langston, Ph.D., Prof. of Environmental History, Michigan Technological University, title TBD
12:20pm-1:10pm, 555 Diehl Hall
For additional information, contact the Program in the History of Medicine at hmed@umn.edu or 612-624-4416.
