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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 [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%