Forwarded from Caduceus. Mus-HM link members may be particularly interested
in the research by Rene Burmeister and Erin McLeary:
> The Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the
> College of Physicians of Philadelphia each year offers fellowships for
> conducting research in the College's Library and/or Mütter Museum. These
> short-term grants are awarded to scholars engaged in projects requiring
> personal use of the historical collections of the library and/or museum
> during the spring/summer/fall of each year. The Wood Institute was
> established in 1976 to share with the scholarly community the rich
> resources of the library and the museum and to encourage the study of
> develoments in health care using these resources.
>
> Founded in 1787, the College of Physicians is the oldest honorary medical
> academy in the United States. An organization of distinguished health
> care professionals and historians of medicine, the College encourages the
> study and appreciation of medicine in the broader historical and social
> context in response to current health care, public, and professional
> issues. The Library of the College of Physicians is one of the largest
> history of medicine collections in the world.
>
> The College of Physicians is pleased to announce the following 1999
> Francis C. Wood Institute Fellows and their research topics:
>
> 1999 FRANCIS C. WOOD INSTITUTE SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES
> College of Physicians of Philadelphia
>
> James D. Alsop, Ph.D., McMaster University, "Anglo-American Maritime and
> Colonial Medicine."
>
> M. Rene Burmeister, M.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
> "For the Profession or the Public? Medical Museums and Artificial
> Anatomy."
>
> Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S., SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, "The
> Evolution of Attitudes of American Physicians Toward Their Women Patients
> in the Nineteenth Century."
>
> Christine Kleinegger, Ph.D., New York State Museum, Study of Sleep from a
> Historical Perspective.
>
> Erin McLeary, M.A., University of Pennsylvania, "'Organize, Classify,
> Arrange, and Display': The Medical Museum in American Culture,
> 1859-1951."
>
> David Serlin, M.A., New York University, History of Organotherapy and Its
> Relationship to the History of Endocrinology.
>
> Ann Starr, M.A., Her Studio - Wellesley, MA, The Body's Interior as
> Visualized Through Medicine and Individual Fantasy.
>
> Lana Thompson, B.A., Medical & Scientific Word Services, "Down the Tubes:
> Images of Women in Printed Medical Illustrations of the Hand-Press Era."
>
> George Weisz, Ph.D., McGill University, "Rethinking Medical Specialization
> in Comparative Perspective, 1800-1960."
>
> Ann Hopkins Wilson, Plymouth Meeting, PA, Visual Hallucinations as
> Portrayed in Artworks.
>
Marjorie M. Smink
Director of the Library
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-563-3737, x265
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