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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