Dr. Dana Atchley interviewing a patient, 1958. Photo by Elizabeth Wilcox, courtesy Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library.
The History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series presents Nuisance or Necessity? Historical Perspectives on the ‘Informed’ Patient, by Nancy Tomes, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University, New York.
Join UCSF Archives & Special Collections on Friday, December 2, at noon in the Lange Room for an afternoon talk with medical historian and author Paul Blanc MD MSPH as he discusses the toxic legacy of viscose rayon portrayed in his new book, Fake Silk. Dr. Blanc poses a basic question: When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? His work tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of “fake silk,” or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as rayon textiles and tires, cellophane, and everyday kitchen sponges. His research uncovers the grim history of a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry workers while also releasing toxic carbon disulfide into the environment. Continue reading
Please join us for the next in the series of Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lectures on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 12:00 noon in the UNC Health Sciences Library, Room 527. Refreshments provided! Our speaker will be Justin Barr, MD, PhD, General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University Medical Center. Continue reading
Do you want to attend a Halloween event that won’t affect your waistline and is free of Disney princesses and Minions? Here’s your chance! Visit the UNC Health Sciences Library on Monday, October 31 at NOON (HSL 527) to view books, photographs, and medical equipment that will make you appreciate today’s medical and dental practices. This event is also a celebration of American Archives Month and North Carolina Archives Month.
~This post is courtesy Dawne Lucas, Special Collections Librarian.
Please join us on Tuesday, October 25, at 4 p.m. for our next Trent History of Medicine Lecture Series at Duke University.
Cali Buckley will present “The History and Legacy of Ivory Anatomical Manikins.” Continue reading
Join UCSF Archives & Special Collections on Friday, October 21, at noon for a talk with Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, chief of the History of Medicine of the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest biomedical library, located on the Bethesda, Maryland, campus of the National Institutes of Health. Continue reading
Pediatric Orthodontic Clinic at what was then called the Columbia University School of Dental & Oral Surgery (now renamed the College of Dental Medicine), ca. 1930.
The History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series presents: “A Dental School on University Lines”: The Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, 1916-2016, Allan J. Formicola, D.D.S., Professor Emeritus of Dental Medicine; Dean Emeritus of the College of Dental Medicine on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 (Lecture, 6pm; Reception and Book Signing, 7pm). Continue reading
