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2006/2007 HISTORY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES LECTURE SERIES Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia All lectures are free and open to the public. All presentations, unless otherwise noted, will be held in the Wilhelm Moll Rare Book and Medical History Room on the Ground Floor of the Health Sciences Library. A recording of each lecture will become available the following day. These recordings are available via Webcast and Podcast at http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/lectures.cfm Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Please join us for the Grand Opening of the Kerr White Health Care Collection Web Site (http://historical.hsl.virginia.edu/kerr/) and Reception in honor of DR. KERR L. WHITE Remarks by Dr. Kerr L. White, Dr. Robert E. Reynolds, Acting Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences in the UVa School of Medicine, and members of the Library’s Web site team Wednesday, November 8, 2006 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. ART BELTRONE Military Artifact Historian and Author, with Lee Beltrone, of Vietnam Graffiti: Messages from a Forgotten Troopship (Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, Inc., 2004) Keswick, Virginia Vietnam Graffiti: Messages from a Forgotten Troopship An abandoned troopship that took soldiers to three wars, including Vietnam, was found loaded with historic relics in Virginia’s James River Reserve Fleet by military artifact historian Art Beltrone of Keswick. The relics, including graffiti-inscribed bunk canvases, provide a personal look at the mindset and emotions of young men going to war. Logs kept by the ship’s master, or captain, described the myriad of accidents that plagued sailors and soldiers alike during the voyage aboard the ship, which was more than two football fields in length. Some of these wounds were treated in the ship’s operating room. Before, during and after the presentation, a selection of graffiti-inscribed canvases found aboard the ship will be available for viewing and further discussion. Copies of the book Vietnam Graffiti: Messages from a Forgotten Troopship will also be available. Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. MARK E. WILLIAMS, M.D. Ward K. Ensminger Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care University of Virginia School of Medicine The History of Geriatric Medicine The presentation will review the care of elderly people throughout history, from ancient times to the present, and will emphasize cross cultural comparisons. Friday, March 2, 2007 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. VIVIAN PINN, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Women in Medicine: The Successes and Challenges of the 21st Century Dr. Vivian Pinn was the only African American and the only woman in her class to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1967. She was the first African American woman to chair an academic pathology department in the United States, and she was the first full-time Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the NIH. Dr. Pinn’s presentation will be the keynote address for the opening of the “CHANGING THE FACE OF MEDICINE: CELEBRATING AMERICA’S WOMEN PHYSICIANS” exhibit on display in the Health Sciences Library March 2-April 13, 2007 THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN THE JORDAN HALL CONFERENCE CENTER AUDITORIUM; RECEPTION TO FOLLOW IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. CHRIS FEUDTNER, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Director of Research & Attending Physician PACT (Palliative Care Team) & Integrated Care Service (ICS) General Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Author of Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003) What Can a Patient-Oriented History of Diabetes Teach Us about Medical Decision-making? What if many -- or even most -- medical decisions are made by decision-making processes that differ substantially from standard notions of weighing risks and benefits of treatment options? Drawing on a remarkable archive of letters that people with diabetes wrote over the course of decades to their physicians, the talk will examine how patients and doctors made decisions as this disease was transformed from an acutely lethal condition before the discover of insulin to a chronic and still too-often debilitating malady. Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. THE 11th ANNUAL KENNETH R. CRISPELL MEMORIAL HISTORY LECTURE JAMES H. JONES, Ph.D. Alumni Distinguished Professor, Emeritus University of Arkansas The Agony of Hope: The Decision to Put David Vetter into the Bubble David Vetter, who was known to the world as "David the 'Bubble Boy'' was born with a rare genetic disease called Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID). He lived all but a few days of his short life (1971-1984) in an isolator, trapped behind sheets of plastic, confined within a tiny space, untouched by human hands and unable to touch others in return. The presentation will examine the decision to place David in the isolator literally seconds after he was born, and will pay careful attention to the ethical issues that are raised by David's case, which from beginning to end blurred the lines between treatment and research. For further information or to be added to the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series mailing list, please contact Joan Echtenkamp Klein, Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections, at jre@virginia.edu or (434) 924-0052. 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/ ____________________________________________________________ STHC-L - Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives Forum STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sthc-l STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu STHC-L Archives -- Main Index STHC-L Archives -- 2006 Message Index |