Author: Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook

Freud, Reich, and Radical Politics: 1927-1933 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

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Thursday, September 14, 2017 – 4:00pm

Philip W. Bennett, Ph.D.: Retired Professor, Fairfield University

Sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

The first in a series of four lectures given as the 2017 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine. The Colloquium offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical perspective on their fields to discuss informally historical studies in progress.

Lahey Room, Fifth Floor
Countway Library
Harvard Medical School
10 Shattuck Street, Boston MA

Free and open to the public. For further information contact David G. Satin, M.D., Colloquium Director, phone/fax 617-332-0032, e-mail david_satin@hms.harvard.edu

Embroidering Medicine Workshop

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~This post courtesy Emily Miranker, MA, Events & Projects Manager, Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health.

Thursdays

September 14 through October 5, 2017

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

This four-week workshop explores The New York Academy of Medicine Library’s historical collections, examining relationships between medicine, needlework, and gender. We will focus on the areas of the collection invoking the ideals of femininity and domesticity, as well as needlework (in the form of ligatures, sutures, and stitching of the body). Participants will learn hands-on embroidery skills and basic stitches, selecting and transferring images to make embroidered pieces inspired by images in the collection. collection. All levels of needlework experience are welcome. Materials will be provided.

Each class starts with an exploration of books about medicine, surgery, natural history, homemaking, or textiles, in the Academy’s Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Reading Room.

Through graphic narratives, teaching, and needlework, Academy Library artist-in-residence Kriota Willberg explores the intersection between body sciences and creative practice. She teaches anatomy for artists at a variety of institutions including the New York Academy of Medicine Library, the Center for Cartoon Studies, and the Society of Illustrators.

REGISTRATION

$290 General Public

$250 Friends, Fellows, Members, Seniors and Students with ID

Advance registration required: NYAM.org/events/event/embroidering-medicine-workshop/

VENUE

The New York Academy of Medicine

1216 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10029

INSTRUCTOR

Kriota Willberg

The New York Academy of Medicine Library artist-in-residence.

Lung Tissue Talk

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On Tues., Aug. 22, from 6-7 p.m., the National Museum of Health and Medicine will host a presentation by Prof. Robin Cookie, an Australian pathologist, who has reviewed preserved lung specimens from casualties of gas poisoning during World War I. Prof. Cooke will talk about how microscopic examination of 100-year-old lung tissue may help inform today’s military medical researchers prepare to treat chemical warfare casualties in the future. Free. Open to the public.

Web link to more info: http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/index.cfm?p=media.events.2017.08222017

Or call (301) 319-3349 or email USArmy.Detrick.MEDCOM-USAMRMC.List.Medical-Museum@mail.mil.