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Calendar / Announcements 1998 Neuroscience History Resources

February 1998

• The Fraternity of Dissectors: Anatomical Dissection, Gender and Professional Identity in 19th-Century America by Michael Sappol of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia [Lecture] (New York Consortium on the History of Medicine meeting: New York Academy of Medicine, New York NY, USA, 3 February 1998)

March 1998

• Pain and Suffering in History: Narratives of Science, Medicine, and Culture [Symposium] (UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA, 13-14 March 1998)

April 1998

• Intimate Portraits: Body Imaging Technologies in Medicine & Culture [Symposium] (University of California, San Francisco, USA, 4 April 1998)
  
  
• The Art of Anesthesiology: An Illustrated History of Pain Control by Fred J Spielman, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina [Lecture] (Society for Medical History of Chicago: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 7 April 1998)
  
  
• By Reason of Insanity: American Psychiatry and the Trial of Charles Guiteau [Exhibit] (New York Academy of Medicine, New York NY, USA, 13 April - 30 June 1998)
  
  
• PET: Where It Came From, Where It Is, and Where It Is Headed by Michael E. Phelps, Norton Simon Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology; Associate Director, Laboratory of Structural Biology and Molecular Medicine; Director, Crump Institute for Biological Imaging, UCLA [Lecture] (Molecular and Medical Pharmacology Seminar, UCLA: Los Angeles CA, USA, 15 April 1998)
  
  
• Camillo Golgi e le Neuroscienze = Camillo Golgi and the Neurosciences [Conference] (Darfo Boario Terme, Italy, 16-18 April 1998)
  
  
• Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Neurasthenia as an American Cultural Phenomenon, 1880-1915 by Barbara Will of Dartmouth College [Lecture] (History of Medicine Seminar, Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 16 April 1998)
  
  
• American Academy of Neurology [Conference] (50th Annual Meeting: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 25 April - 2 May 1998)
  
  
• Toward a Science of Consciousness 1998: "Tucson III" [Conference] (University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona, USA, 27 April - 2 May 1998)

May 1998

• Anesthesia History Association (AHA) [Conference] (6th Annual Meeting: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6 - 7 May 1998)
  
  
• American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) [Conference] (71st Annual Meeting: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 7 - 10 May 1998)
  
  
• Visible women: Anatomical illustration and human dissection in Renaissance Italy by Katharine Park of Harvard University [Lecture] (1998 Dibner Library Lecture, National Museum of American History: Washington, DC, USA, 20 May 1998)
  
  
• What rodent feet and human brains have in common by Elizabeth Vrba of Yale University [Lecture] (Marschak Colloquium, UCLA: Los Angeles, CA, USA, 22 May 1998)
  
  
• The museum collection of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society by Matthew H. Kaufman of University of Edinburgh [Lecture] (Collection and Comparison in the Sciences: A Series of Seminars, Museum of the History of Science: Oxford, UK, 27 May 1998)

June 1998

• The collection and the catalogue: Musaeum Regalis Societatis and Musaeum Kircherianum by Nick Wilding of European University Institute, Florence [Lecture] (Collection and Comparison in the Sciences: A Series of Seminars; Museum of the History of Science: Oxford, UK, 3 June 1998)
  
  
• International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) [Conference] (3rd Annual Meeting: Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 7-9 June 1998)
  
  
• Fourth International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain [Conference] (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 7-12 June 1998)
  
  
• Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences [Conference] (30th Annual Meeting: University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA, 18-21 June 1998)

• Mid-Atlantic Conference in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (MAC) [Conference--graduate students] (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 31 July - 2 August 1998)

• Phineas Gage 150th Anniversary [Symposium] (Cavendish, Vermont, USA, 12 - 13 September 1998)
  
  
• Mephistos 1998 [Conference] (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 17-20 September 1998)
  
  
• Neurons, gland cells, and vesicles: The historical context for the emergence of neuroendocrinology by Alan G. Watts of University of Southern California [Lecture] (Hedco Neuroscience Building, University of Southern California: Los Angeles, California, USA, 23 September 1998)
  
  
• From medical ethics to bioethics: Historical and philosophical perspectives [Conference] (Wellcome Trust Regional Forum: Grey College, University of Durham: Durham, UK, 25-26 September 1998)
  
  
• Von Economo's sleeping sickness and Oliver Sacks's awakening by Robert C. Collins of University of California, Los Angeles [Lecture] (Center for the Health Sciences, UCLA: Los Angeles, California, USA, 30 September 1998)
  
  

• Science, medicine and technology in the twentieth century: What difference has feminism made? [Workshop] (Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 2-3 October 1998)
  
  
• International Society for the Study of Controversy [Symposium on the rhetoric of experiment] (Vercelli, Italy, 10-12 October 1998)
  
  
• Stumped: Thinking amputation in Victorian America by Erin O'Conner of University of Pennsylvania [Lecture] (Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 13 October 1998)
  
  
• Freud: Conflict and culture [Exhibition] (Library of Congress: Washington, D.C., USA, 15 October 1998 - 15 January 1999) (Online version of exhibition)
  
  
• Science and the projection of England by Sophie Forgan of University of Teesside [Lecture] (RICHST Research Seminar, Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology: London, England, 27 October 1998)
  
  
• A language for science: Reporting some debates concerning "life sciences" language in the second half of the eighteenth century by Marc Ratcliff of Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin [Lecture] (History of Science and Medicine Research Seminars, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: London, England, 28 October 1998)
  
  

• The dissemination of laboratory medicine in 19th century America: William H. Welch [Lecture] (National Library of Medicine: Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 3 November 1998)
  
  
• SLS in Florida: Thinking the Brain and Beyond [Conference] (Society for Literature and Science, Annual Meeting: Gainesville, Florida, USA, 5-8 November 1998)
  
  
• Functional specializations of thin primary afferent fibers [Symposium in honor of Lawrence Kruger] (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Los Angeles, California, USA, 7 November 1998)
  
  
• Webb Haymaker and "The Founders of Neurology" [Exhibition] (Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA: Los Angeles, California, USA, 7 November 1998 - 30 June 1999)
  
  
• Society for Neuroscience (SFN) [Conference] (28th Annual Meeting: Los Angeles, California, USA, 7-12 November 1998)
  • History events at SFN meeting
  • Grass Foundation Educational/Social Gathering
  • The hippocampus minor and man's place in nature: a case study in the social construction of neuroanatomy by Charles Gross [Lecture] (10 November 1998)
  
  
• Models in the sciences, technology and medicine: Displaying the third dimension [Symposium] (Wellcome Institute and the Science Museum: London, England, UK, 13-14 November 1998)
  
  
• Philosophical Problems in the Historiography of Science [Conference] (International Joint Conference of the Division of History of Science and the Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science: Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 14-15 November 1998)
  
  
• Measuring man: Electricity, technology and the Victorian body by Iwan Morus of University of Belfast [Lecture] (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester: Manchester, England, 17 November 1998)
  
  

• Helmholtz--Bringing physiology into musical acoustics by Erwin Hiebert of Harvard University [Lecture] (Goettingen Colloquium in the History of Science: Institute for History of Science, University of Goettingen, Germany, 1 December 1998)
  
  
• Medical Philanthropy in New York by Alexander Bearn of the American Philosophical Society [Lecture] (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, New York, USA, 12 December 1998)
  
  

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