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Caroline Hannaway has worked as Historical Consultant and Editor for Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum projects on a broad spectrum of topics since 1992. Oral histories of leading NIH scientists and administrators have been one of her areas of focus. Among her research interests are the history of disease, the history of AIDS and its effects on scientific research, and the history of cochlear implants. Dr. Hannaway was previously Director of the Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. At the NIH, she has also worked for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Hannaway has been a historical consultant for other federal agencies, including the Public Health Service, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Her editorial experience includes editorship of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and she is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., History of Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1974

B.A.(Hon.), History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne,1965

Selected work experience

1992-present: Historical Consultant, Office of NIH History, Bethesda, Maryland

1990-1992: Director, Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1983-1990: Editor, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

1983-1990: Assistant Professor, Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Selected publications

Caroline Hannaway, ed., Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics,2008.

Caroline Hannaway, Victoria A. Harden, and John Parascandola, eds., AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Issues, 1995

Caroline Hannaway and Ann LaBerge, eds., Constructing Paris Medicine, 1998

Ingrid Farreras, Caroline Hannaway, and Victoria A. Harden, eds., Mind, Brain, Body and Behavior: Foundations of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research at the National Institutes of Health, 2004

 
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