Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:33:19 -0400
From: Edward Morman <[log in to unmask]>
The Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of The College
of Physicians of Philadelphia
and
The American Philosophical Society, The Library Company of Philadelphia,
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, The National Library of
Medicine, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University
of Pennsylvania, and the Section on Medical History of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia
present a
Conference on Health and Medicine
in the Era of Lewis and Clark
November 4-6, 2004
This conference will be an element of the regional and national
commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Lewis and Clark
expedition. The keynote lecture, "In the Service of Science: Thomas
Jefferson in the Nation's Capital" will be delivered by Barbara Oberg,
editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, and Professor of History at
Princeton University. Session topics include: theory (medical and
otherwise), materia medica, gender and Lewis & Clark, Enlightenment
medicine, health care without doctors, race and republicanism, mapping
bodies, and urban public health.
A banquet the opening night will honor Whitfield Bell, author of The
Colonial Physician and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: A
Bicentennial History, and Librarian and Executive Director emeritus of
the American Philosophical Society. The conference program will include
a complimentary preview tour of the National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
Exhibition at the Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences.
This conference will be of interest to historians, physicians and the
general public and will result in a volume of collected papers to be
published by the American Philosophical Society.
For a complete program and registration information, please go to
www.collphyphil.org/L&CConf.htm
Edward T. Morman, MSLS, PhD
College Librarian and Director,
Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103
215.563.3737 x265
215.569.0356 [fax]
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