Headed by Christian Warren, the Section of the History of Medicine & Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine has been sponsoring a treasure trove of wonderful scholarships, lectures, and events for some years.
Now comes news of a Mini-Lecture Series on Historical Perspectives on Global Health, bringing together two of my very favorite things (history of medicine and population health). The details and registration information are available on the website, but I will post them here as well:
Global Health: Historical Perspectives
As part of our ongoing public lecture series in the history of medicine, this year the Historical Collections and the Section on the History of Medicine and Public health are presenting a three-part lecture series on global health, convened to complement the 9th International Conference on Urban Health to be held at the New York Academy of Medicine this October.
The lectures examine the historical dimension of global health in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Just as older ways of ordering the world's nations have changed dramatically — relying on colonial relations, Cold War hierarchies, or economic distinctions between industrialized and developing "worlds" — so too have core organizing principles around addressing health burdens around the globe. This transition is clear in the recent preference for "Global Health" over "International Health," the latter emphasizing differences, unilateral foreign aid, and medical missionary energy, the former stressing partnership, interdependence and common goals.
All lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures begin at 6:00 p.m.
and are preceded by light refreshments beginning at 5:30 p.m.
For complete details, visit:
http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/historical_collections_events
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Uneven Development of Knowledge about Lead Poisoning: Notes toward a Comparison between the U.S. and Mexico
-Chris Sellers, MD, PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Lilianna Sauter Lecture
The Republic of Therapy: AIDS in West Africa
-Vinh-Kim Nguyen, MD, MSc, PhD, Universite de Montreal
-Commentary by Jeffrey O'Malley, Director of the HIV/AIDS Group in the United Nations Development Programme
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Global Health and the Politics of Cooptation
-Anne-Emanuelle Birn, ScD, University of Toronto
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Watch for more information about our other 2010-2011 lectures. The following speakers are on the calendar for this season:
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The John K. Lattimer Lecture: Death Investigation in America
-Jeffrey M. Jentzen, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture: Vivisection in William Harvey's Century
-Domenico Bertoloni Meli, PhD, Indiana University - Bloomington
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Iago Galdston Lecture: "Dangerous Pregnancies: German Measles (Rubella), Mothers, and Disabilities in Modern America"
-Leslie J. Reagan, PhD, University of Illinois
Monday, May 9, 2011
On the History of Hospital Architecture in New York City
-William J. Higgins, Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLC
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This series received funding from the New York Council for the Humanities.
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this lecture series do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For full descriptions, or to register to attend these talks, visit:
https://www.nyam.org/library/pages/historical_collections_events
For more information about the Historical Collections at the New York Academy of Medicine, please visit our website, http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/historical_collections .
For more information about the public lectures series sponsored by Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health, please call Arlene Shaner in the Rare Book Room at 212-822-7313 or send email to history@nyam.org.
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(h/t H-SCI-MED-TECH)
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