The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia PA 19103
Medical History Programming, Spring 2005
Wednesday, February 23, 6:15 - Wood Institute Mini-Symposium
"Buying, Collecting, and Caring for Rare Medical Books"
Bruce Ramer (Medical antiquarian bookseller, New York City)
Eugene Flamm, MD (Chair of Neurosurgery, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine; Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Michael Ryan, PhD (Associate Director for Special Collection, University
of Pennsylvania Libraries)
Tuesday, March 15, 6:15 - The Mary Scott Newbold Lecture
"What Vietnam Taught Us about Surgery"
Norman M. Rich, MD (Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences)
[Presented in co-operation with the "One Book, One Philadelphia" program
of the Free Library of Philadelphia]
Saturday, April 16
The Section on Medical History Celebrates its Centennial with a
"HISTORY OF MEDICINE DAY"
Morning: Steven J. Peitzman, MD (Medicine, Drexel University; Fellow,
College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Medical History Walking Tour of Old Philadelphia
Afternoon: Works-in-progress sessions organized by the Wood Institute
for the History
(speakers and topics to be announced)
Evening: Jaclyn Duffin, MD, PhD (Hematology, Queens University, Ontario;
President, American Association for the history of Medicine)
"Clio in the Clinic"
Subscription Dinner
Russell Maulitz, MD, PhD (Family Medicine, Drexel University; Fellow,
College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
"100 Years of Medical History in the United States"
Friday, May 20, 10:00AM to 3:00 PM
The Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, the Section on Medical
History, and the Section on Medicine and the Arts present
A Mini-Symposium on the History of Quackery
(speakers to be announced)
The morning program will be followed by a subscription lunch at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a special tour of the exhibit: "Quack,
Quack, Quack: Seller s of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera, and
Books" conducted by William H. Helfand (Curator of the exhibit and
Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia).
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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