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Calendar / Announcements 1999 Neuroscience History Resources

January 1999

• Ghosts in the medico-military machine: Prosthesis, "phantom limb" and the American Civil War by Lisa Herschbach [Lecture] (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, New York, USA, 6 January 1999)
  
  
• BSHS postgrad conference [Conference] (British Society for the History of Science: Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Manchester: Manchester, England, 11-13 January 1999)
  
  
• From brain to mind by Susan Greenfield [Lecture] (Michael Faraday Lecture, The Royal Society: London, UK, 12 January 1999)
  
  

February 1999

• The brain and the self: An unhappy partnership in inter-war Britain by Rhodri Hayward [Lecture] (University of Leeds: Leeds, UK, 3 February 1999)
  
  
• Better living through genetics: The past, present, and future of enhancement technologies by Sheila Rothman and David Rothman [Lecture] (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, New York, USA, 17 February 1999)
  
  
• ArtMedicine: Discoveries in medicine through the scientific study of art by Carlos H. Espinal [Lecture] (National Library of Medicine: Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 17 February 1999)
  
  
• International workshop on the history of science: Implications for science education [Symposium] (Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research: Mumbai, India, UK, 22-26 February 1999)
  
  
• Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) [Conference] (Inaugural Meeting: University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA, 26-27 February 1999)
  
  
• Borders and bridges: Exploring the relationships between humans and animals [Conference] (University of California, Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, California, USA, 27 February 1999)
  
  

March 1999

• Visual prostheses to make the blind see: Past, present and future by Robert Greenberg [Lecture] (UCLA: Los Angeles, California, USA, 4 March 1999)
  
  
• Philosophical issues in evolutionary theory [Conference] (Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mind, World and Knowledge, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading: Reading, England, 6 March 1999)
  
  
• The hand, the body, and the mind as represented in Renaissance art by Claire Sherman [Lecture] (National Library of Medicine: Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 17 March 1999)
  
  
• Internet resources for neuroscience history by Russell A. Johnson [Workshop] (Neuroscience History Affinity Group, UCLA: Los Angeles, California, USA, 19 March 1999)
  
  
• History across the disciplines [Conference] (Atlantic Graduate Student History Conference at Dalhousie University: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 20-21 March 1999)
  
  
• Masters of clinical medicine in nineteenth-century Dublin by Noel G. Boyle [Lecture] (Programs in Medical Classics, UCLA: Los Angeles, California, USA, 23 March 1999)
  
  

April 1999

• Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology [Conference] (University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 9-10 April 1999)
  
  
• Neuroscience 2000: A new era of discovery [Conference] (National Academy of Sciences: Washington DC, USA: 12-13 April 1999)
  
  
• Drawing from nature: Art & illustration in the natural-history sciences [Conference] (Natural History Museum: London, UK: 12-16 April 1999)
  
  
• Technology and identity [Conference] (Cornell University: Ithaca, New York, USA, 16-18 April 1999)
  
  
• American Academy of Neurology (AAN) [Conference] (51st Annual Meeting: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 17-24 April 1999)
  
  
• Cajal Club Meeting [Conference] (Washington, D.C., USA, 18-19 April 1999)
  
  
• A recreation of the Cajal-Golgi Debate of 1906 by Jim Culberson and Dennis Overman [Performance] (1999 Cajal Club Meeting: Washington, D.C., USA, 19 April 1999)
  
  
• Henry K. Beecher and Maurice Pappworth: Character in the development of modern research ethics by Paul Edelson [Lecture] (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, NY USA, 28 April 1999)
  
  

May 1999

• American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) [Conference] (72nd Annual Meeting: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, 5-9 May 1999)
  
  
• The sciences in later medieval culture [Conference] (Special Session, 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies: University of Michigan: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, 6-9 May 1999)
  
  
• Recovering Vesalius' Fabrica: Words and Images [Lecture and Exhibit] (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, NY USA, 10 May 1999)
  
  
• The first cocaine epidemic by David Musto [Lecture] (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, New York, USA, 19 May 1999)
  
  
• Philosophy Problems in the Neurosciences [Conference] (Fifth Meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science: Konstanz, Germany, 26-29 May 1999)
  
  

June 1999

• Scientific Discovery [Conference] (Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science: University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, 3-5 June 1999)
  
  
• Laboratory History and Sociology [Conference] (SUNY, Stony Brook: Stony Brook, New York, USA, 10-12 June 1999)
  
  
• Cheiron XXXI [Conference] (31st annual meeting, International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences: Carleton University: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 10-13 June 1999)
  
  
• Philosophy of experimental inference: Induction, reliability and error [Conference] (NEH [National Endowment for the Humanities] Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Experimental Inference: Virginia Tech: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 14 June - 23 July 1999)
  
  
• Frontiers of the mind in the 21st century [Conference] (Library of Congress: Washington DC, USA, 15-17 June 1999)
  
  
• From the Edwin Smith Papyrus to Joseph Lister: Highlights in the evolution of surgery from the rare book and instrument collections at the New York Academy of Medicine [Exhibition] (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, New York, USA, 15 June - 30 September 1999)
  
  
• TENNET X [Conference] (Tenth Conference on Theoretical & Experimental Neuropsychology: University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, 17-19 June 1999)
  
  
• Y2K minus 40: Computerizing neuroscience at UCLA by Thelma Estrin [Lecture] (Neuroscience History Affinity Group meeting, UCLA: Los Angeles, California, USA, 18 June 1999)
  
  
• The human condition [Exhibition] (University of Texas at Austin: Austin TX, USA, 18 June - 8 August 1999)
  
  
• Defiant modernism: Technological innovation, 1938-1968 [Conference] (The Science Museum, British Society for the History of Science and the Institute of Contemporary British History: London, UK, 25-26 June 1999)
  
  

July 1999

• Individuals and institutions in the history of medicine [Conference] (6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine: Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 1999)
  
  
• International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) [Conference] (1999 Meeting: Oaxaca, Mexico, 7-11 July 1999)
  
  
• American foundations and the development of modern biomedicine in Europe [Conference] (Rockefeller Archive Center: Pocantico Hills, New York, USA, 19 July 1999)
  
  

August 1999

• Mid-Atlantic Conference in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology [Conference] (2nd Annual Conference for graduate students; University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 6-8 August 1999)
  
  

September 1999

• Scientific books [Conference] (Annual Study Conference, The Rare Books Group of the (UK) Library Association: Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK, 8-10 September 1999)
  
  
• Bodies/Machines [Conference] (Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 10-11 September 1999)
  
  
• Women in the history of science: Biography, autobiography, tasks, results, problems [Conference] (Women's Commission, DHS/IUHPS: Newnham College, Cambridge UK, 10-12 September 1999)
  
  
• On time [Conference] (Liverpool, England, 16-18 September 1999)
  
  
• The neurosciences and psychiatry: Crossing the boundaries [Conference] (Joint Congress of the Eauropean Association for the History of Psychiatry (EAHP), European Club for the History of Neurology (ECHN), and International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN): Zürich and Lausanne, Switzerland, 14-18 September 1999)
  
  
• On time: History, science, commemoration [Conference] (British Society for the History of Science, Royal Historical Society, and National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside: Liverpool, England, 16-19 September 1999)
  
  
• 150th Anniversary of the birth of Ivan Pavlov (26 September 1999)
  
  

October 1999

• Mephistos 1999 [Conference] (18th Annual Conference: Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 1-2 October 1999)
  
  
• Society for Neuroscience (SFN) [Conference] (29th Annual Meeting: Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 23-28 October 1998)
  
  

November 1999

• History of Science Society (HSS) [Conference] (75th Annual Meeting: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 3-7 November 1999)
  
  
• Observe and heal: Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) and the beginnings of a comprehensive medicine of mind and body by Dora B. Weiner (UCLA Programs in Medical Classics: Los Angeles, California, USA, 17 November 1999)
  
  
• Cajal On Consciousness: International Centennial Conference Honoring Santiago Ramon y Cajal [Conference] (Zaragoza, Spain, 29 November - 1 December 1999)
  
  

December 1999

• From Galvani to Hodgkin and beyond: two centuries of electrophysiology [Conference] (Ferrara, Italy, 3-4 December 1999)
  
  
• Galvani e il galvanismo [Conference] (Bologna, Italy, 6-7 December 1999)
  
  
• The comparative anatomy of the brain in the 17th century: From religious anthropocentricity to systematic biology by Larry Kruger (UCLA programs in Medical Classics: Los Angeles, California, USA, 7 December 1999)
  
  

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