Thursday!

You have until Thursday to grab your free ticket for our 10th anniversary conference.

The conference runs from 11 to 5 (EST) and you can check out the full program with links to all the abstracts below!

11:00am-12:00pmWelcome and Keynote 

• Welcome: Emily R. Novak Gustainis, President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jaipreet Virdi, Assistant Professor for the Department of History at the University of Delaware
  Digitized Disability Histories

12:00pm-1:00pm

Presentations

Moderator: Robin Naughton, Vice-President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Assistant Professor, Web and Digital Services Librarian, Queens College, CUNY

• Helene Cazes, Ph.D., University of Victoria, British Columbia
  Searching for female perfection in the MHL collections
• Amber Hinde, Ph.D. (candidate), University of Glasgow, Scotland
  ‘A doctor’s advice and prescription is now worth more than any soothing syrup’: Writing ‘Scientific Motherhood’ in Early Twentieth Century Britain

1:00-2:30Break

1:15pm-2:15Lunch and Learn
Moderator: Polina Ilieva, Board Member, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; AUL for Archives and Special Collections, University Archivist, UC San Francisco

• Catherine DeRose, Program Manager for the Digital Humanities Lab, Yale University, and Peter Leonard, Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Yale University
  Visualizing Medical Heritage Collections at Scale
• Krista Stracka, Rare Book Cataloger for the Rare Books and Early Manuscripts Section in the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine
  Rarity factor: Unveiling unique materials from the National Library of Medicine
• Kate Tasker, Industry Documents Library Archivist, University of California, San Francisco and Rachel Taketa, Tobacco Projects Assistant, University of California, San Francisco
  Smoke on Screens: Audiovisual Evidence of the Tobacco Industry’s Harms to Public Health

2.30pm – 3.30pm
Presentations

Moderator: Beth Lander, Secretary/Treasurer, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Managing Director, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)

• Jonathan Jones, Ph.D., Civil War Era Postdoctoral Scholar, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, Pennsylvania State University
  Drugs and Digitization: Investigating Opiate Addiction in the U.S. Civil War Era with the Medical Heritage Library
• Whitney Arnold, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California (UCLA)
  Medicine in the Monthly Review: A Large-Scale Analysis of Medical Texts and Discourses

3:30-3:45Break

3.45pm – 4.45pm
Presentations

Moderator: Melissa Grafe, Board Member, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Ph.D, Head of the Medical Historical Library, John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical Historical, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University

• Caterina Agostini, Ph.D. (candidate), Rutgers University
  Diet, Weight, and the Authority of Books: Santorio’s Medical Method
• E. Thomas Ewing, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ariel Ludwig, Ph.D,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jessica Brabble, student, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  A Properly Made Mask: Historical Lessons from Popular Culture and Medical Discourse during the 1918 Flu Epidemic

4:45pm-5:00pm

Closing

• Closing: Robin Naughton, Vice-President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Assistant Professor, Web and Digital Services Librarian, Queens College, CUNY