SEMINARS 2008/2009
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINARS (WIPS)
05/05/09
Fitness Begins in the High Chair: The President’s Council on Youth Fitness and Cold War Exercise Promotion
Shelly McKenzie, George Washington University
04/21/09
Human Rights and the Professionalization of Public Health
Sokhieng Au, Johns Hopkins University
03/10/09
“A Record of Historical Fact” Transsexuality, Retrospective Diagnosis, and the Ethics of History or Joking in the Archive with Carolyn Steedman
Dan O’Connor, Johns Hopkins University
12/16/08
The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910
Oliver Gaycken, Temple University
12/09/08
Behind Closed Doors
Laura Stark, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
11/18/08
Who Owns What? Private Ownership and the Public Interest in the Recombinant DNA Technology in the 1970s
Doogab Yi, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
11/04/08
Mapping and Remapping the Boundaries Between Orthodox and Unorthodox Medicine
Eric W. Boyle, Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health
10/28/08
Travelling Facts about Crowded Rats: Rodent Experimentation and the Human Sciences
Edmund Ramsden, University of Exeter
10/21/08
Introduction to Cholesterol: A Scientific, Medical, and Social History, 1908-1962
Todd M. Olszewski, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
09/30/08
Solving the Puzzle of Russian Tick-Borne Encephalitis: Science, Discovery, and History in the Soviet Far East, 1932-1958 and Beyond
Lisa K. Walker, Independent Scholar