Lecture: "Sister Kenny Goes to Washington: An Unorthodox Nurse, Polio, and Medical Politics in Postwar America" by Naomi Rogers (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, NY, 29 February 2000)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from CADUCEUS-L.
Note that Dr. Rogers' paper is available, whether you are attending the
lecture or not, on the Web. Papers from some of NYAM's previous
seminars are also available online; see
<http://www.nyam.org/history/seminars.html> for a list of Scholarly
Seminars since 1997. Note also that these texts tend to be works in
progress and are accompanied by warnings such as "not to be cited
without permission of the author."
Russell Johnson
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:14:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Ed_Morman <emorman@nyam.org>
Subject: NYAM History of Medicine Seminar: Sister Kenny and Polio
Politics
To: caduceus list <CADUCEUS-L@list.umaryland.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10002111014320.5126-100000@mail.nyam.org>
The New York metropolitan area History of Medicine Seminar Series will
next convene at the New York Academy of Medicine (1216 Fifth Avenue, at
103rd Street) on Tuesday, February 29, at 6:00 PM. A complimentary supper
will be served, following the colloquium, at 7:30. The paper to be
discussed at is
SISTER KENNY GOES TO WASHINGTON:
AN UNORTHODOX NURSE, POLIO, AND MEDICAL POLITICS IN POSTWAR AMERICA
by Naomi Rogers, of Yale University. Dr. Rogers is the author of DIRT AND
DISEASE: POLIO BEFORE FDR (Rutgers, 1992) and AN ALTERNATIVE PATH: THE
MAKING AND REMAKING OF HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL OF
PENNSYLVANIA (Rutgers, 1998). Her paper is available on the World Wide
Web, from which it can be read, downloaded, or printed out. It is
accessible at:
http://www.nyam.org/history/hist00_1.html
It can also be found through links from the New York Academy of Medicine
home page: http://www.nyam.org.
To minimize photocopy and postage expenses, I ask that anyone who has the
capacity to access this paper through the World Wide Web do so. Anyone
wishing to participate in this seminar, but unable to obtain the paper
through the Web, should let me know as soon as possible. I will have a
copy mailed. You may leave me a message with your mailing address by
email or voicemail (emorman@nyam.org or 212-822-7314). Please note that
we will provide copies of the paper by mail only to people planning to
attend the seminar.
Following the colloquium, a complimentary light supper will be served. If
you plan to stay for supper, please contact me by phone or email before
February 23, so I can tell the caterer how many to plan for. There will
be a limited number of places. If you tell us that you are coming and
then find that your plans have changed, please try to let me know at least
two days in advance.
This seminar series is intended for history faculty and graduate students,
physicians and other health professionals, librarians and archivists, and
anyone else with a scholarly interest in medical history. All are welcome
who have read the paper in advance and are prepared for a critical
discussion. The author will make only a brief presentation before we
proceed to the discussion.
N.B.: The final seminar in the series will be on April 25. Lawrence
Koblenz, M.D., a graduate student in history at Columbia University, will
present on "The Making of Modern Cancer." Dr. Koblenz's paper will be
available on the web in early April.
Please contact me if you need further information.
Ed Morman
Associate Academy Librarian for Historical Collections and Programs
The New York Academy of Medicine
emorman@nyam.org
212-822-7314
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