SAVE THE DATE: STHC Roundtable Program

• Date:   Tue, 16 May 2006 16:06:37 -0400
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• From:   Joan Klein   < JRE AT hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu >
• Subject:   SAVE THE DATE: STHC Roundtable Program
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Please join us for the Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) Roundtable 
Meeting on Thursday, August 3, 4:30-6:00 p.m. There will be both a business 
meeting and a program, "Science and Society: In Their Own Words." The program 
is a session proposal that was not accepted for the SAA joint meeting: "We 
received a record number of submissions-more than 140-for a schedule that 
had room for about half that number, making the competition extraordinarily 
difficult… We all regret that yours was one of many excellent proposals for 
which we simply could not find room." We hope you will agree that the 
STHC Roundtable offers a perfect venue for the session.

An agenda for the business meeting will be sent out via this listserv 
before the meeting. Please let Janice Goldblum (JGoldblu@nas.edu) and me 
(jre@virginia.edu), STHC Co-Chairs, know of anything you would like to 
see on the agenda. Please be thinking of session ideas to submit to the 
Program Committee for the 2007 SAA meeting in Chicago. You are encouraged 
to use the STHC listserv for getting feedback on session topics and 
speakers.


2006 STHC Program


Content Description:

The archives of scientists, physicians, and technologists encompass 
more than laboratory notebooks, patient records, anatomical drawings, 
or models of apparatus. Collections document individual careers and 
professional concerns as well as the intersections between science, society, 
and public policy and are valuable resources for social and cultural 
historians as well as historians of science. This session examines three 
distinct collections spanning American history from antebellum medicine to 
the twentieth century genetic revolution: Dr. James Carmichael's correspondence 
from patients, 1819-1830; the papers of Joseph Henry, widely considered 
the foremost American scientist of the 19th century and the first director 
of the Smithsonian Institution; and the papers of Joshua Lederberg, who 
received a Nobel Prize in 1958 for his work in bacterial genetics and was a 
pioneer in applying computer science to biomedical research. Speakers will 
examine these collections’ documentation strategies, usage, and the 
creation of affiliated databases, publications, and exhibits projects.

Roles of Speakers:

Joan Echtenkamp Klein (Historical Collections, University of Virginia 
Health Sciences Library) will discuss a unique collection of letters 
to an antebellum Southern physician that voices patients’ perceptions 
of illness and the website that makes the original letters available 
and provides context for them. Marc Rothenberg (The Joseph Henry Papers 
Project, Smithsonian Institution) will discuss how researchers utilize 
the ten published letterpress volumes, the website, and over 130,000 
documents in the Henry Papers database for research ranging from education 
reform in Japan to technological innovation in the lighting industry. 
Walter Hickel (History of Medicine Division, History Associates Incorporated 
and National Library of Medicine) will highlight the Joshua Lederberg 
papers and online archive, with particular attention to Lederberg's extensive 
role in science, space exploration, and national security policy. Alison 
Oswald (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution) 
will chair the session.


Purpose of Session:

To highlight the diverse and inter-disciplinary content of science, 
technology, and health care collections and collecting institutions 
and the contributions such collections have made to archival and 
manuscript practices and historical studies. 


Joan Echtenkamp Klein
Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator of Historical Collections
and Assistant Professor for Medical Education
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
University of Virginia Health System
P.O. Box 800722
1300 Jefferson Park Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0722
434-924-0052; FAX 434-243-5873; jre@virginia.edu
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/

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