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Past Events:Making the Suicidal Object: Sympathy and Surveillance in the American AsylumDepartment of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, present: Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine“Making the Suicidal Object: Sympathy and Surveillance in the American Asylum”Kathleen Brian, M.A., Ph.D.: Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University The third in a series of four lectures given as the 2014 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine. The Colloquium offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical perspective on their fields to discuss informally historical studies in progress. November 20, 2014 Ballard Auditorium, fifth floor Free and open to the public. For further information contact David G. Satin, M.D., Colloquium Director, phone/fax 617-332-0032, e-mail david_satin@hms.harvard.edu Date: 2014-11-20 Death and Diversity in Civil War MedicineThe Center for the History of Medicine and the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership present: Death and Diversity in Civil War MedicineMargaret Humphreys, Ph.D.: Professor of Medicine and History, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine, Duke University, and current President of the American Association for the History of Medicine This talk explores the reasons for the widely divergent death rates from disease among white Union troops, white Confederate troops, and black Union troops in the American Civil War. November 18, 2014 Registration is required. To register, click here. Date: 2014-11-18 21st Century War: the Continuum of Pain and Other SequelaeThe 39th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture: “21st Century War: the Continuum of Pain and Other Sequelae” will be presented by: Chester ‘Trip’ Buckenmaier III, M.D.: Program Director, Defense and Veteran Center for Integrative Pain Management, US Army and To register for the lecture only (free), or for more information email BostonMedLibr@gmail.com with your full name, email address, and phone number.
Date: 2014-10-30 The Birth of the PillJoin us as New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Eig discusses his new book, The Birth of the Pill. Eig tells the stories of four people who played a key role in the creation of the birth-control pill: Margaret Sanger, Katharine McCormick, Gregory Pincus, and John Rock. Date: 2014-10-21 Anatomy and Its Legacies: Artistic, Ethical, ScientificA symposium on the complex history of anatomical study presented by Christina J. Hodge, Michele E. Morgan, Naomi Slipp and Sabine Hildebrandt.
Date: 2014-10-15 Jewish Medical Resistance in the HolocaustThe second in a series of four lectures given as the 2014 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine. The Colloquium offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical perspective on their fields to discuss informally historical studies in progress. Date: 2014-10-14 Romania's Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for RecoveryNotable Books Series at the Countway Library of Medicine Speaker - Charles A. Nelson III, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics & Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, HMS Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children's Hospital Dr. Nelson will talk on the subject of his book. Following the lecture there will be a book signing and reception in the Lahey Room, 5th floor Topic: “The implications of early experience for children's brain development, behavior, and psychological functioning have long absorbed caregivers, researchers, and clinicians. The 1989 fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in 700 overcrowded, impoverished institutions across Romania, and prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of institutionalization on children's well-being. Romania's Abandoned Children, the authoritative account of this landmark study, documents the devastating toll paid by children who are deprived of responsive care, social interaction, stimulation, and psychological comfort”. Date: 2014-09-16 Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care10th J. Worth Estes History of Medicine Lecture Speaker: David S. Jones, MD, PhD, Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University Lecture Topic: Every day, all over America, people visit their doctors with chest pain and other symptoms of coronary artery disease. Each year over a million of them choose to undergo bypass surgery or angioplasty. Are these decisions good ones? Even though modern medicine has committed itself to an ideal of evidence-based medicine, with its clinical trials, meta-analyses, and practice guidelines, the answer is not always clear. By looking closely at the history of these procedures, it is possible to understand some of the reasons why this is the case. One problem is that clinical trial data has never monopolized medical decisions. Doctors and patients also pay attention to how treatments work, and if an intervention directly addresses the perceived cause of a disease -- as often happens with surgery -- then doctors assume that it will work. The challenge here is figuring out whether or not our understanding of the causes of disease is correct. The history of thinking about heart attacks shows how complicated this can be. Another problem is that clinical research generally often under-estimates the risk of medical interventions. It is easier to study the desired outcomes of an intervention than its expected or unexpected complications. As a result, doctors often end up with more thorough knowledge of a procedure’s efficacy than of its risks, an asymmetry that introduces a bias in favor of medical intervention. Sponsored by the Boston Medical Library Date: 2014-05-28 Kick-off Reception - Books for Haiti
Speaker: Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Haiti), PIH Send a check to made out to Partners in Health (memo- Library) and bring it to Countway - Betsy Eggleston (Rm. 239) or Julie Whelan (Rm. 244) Date: 2014-02-19 Adventures at the Intersection of Medical Journalism & Public Health38th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture - Speaker: Lawrence Altman, MD, Medical Journalist/Columnist, The New York Times; Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York University Dr. Altman is one of the few medical doctors who worked as a full-time daily newspaper reporter. He has been a member of The New York Times science news staff since 1969. In addition to reporting, he writes “The Doctor’s World” column in Science Times. Dr. Altman currently is a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where he was the advertising manager and treasurer of The Lampoon magazine, and received his medical degree from Tufts University of School of Medicine. Please RSVP to Roz Vogel at rvogel@hms.harvard.edu or call 617-432-4807 Date: 2013-10-23 Health Information Lunchtime Lecture SeriesAndrea Farkas Patenaude, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, HMS talked about her book Prophylactic Mastectomy: Insights from Women Who Chose to Reduce Their Risk. Dr. Patenaude was among the first researchers to study the psychological impacts of genetic testing on patients and their families. Her book describes the stories of 21 women choosing to undergo prophylactic mastectomy to significantly reduce their very high hereditary risk of getting breast cancer. As the use of genetic testing in medicine increases, so, too, does the number of women facing similar dilemmas.
Date: 2013-09-10 Natural Medicines: Researching the Literature on Herbs and Dietary SupplementsLearn how you can find evidence-based information on medicinal herbs and dietary supplements. This class includes recommended sources of information and search tips, identifying toxicities and interactions, and a brief look at safety and regulatory issues. Registration is not required Date: 2013-09-09 When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary TestsCountway Library's Health Information Lunchtime Lecture Series: The speakers were Leana Wen, MD, & Joshua Kosowsky, MD, BWH/MGH Emergency Medicine. They spoke on the subject of their newly published book - When Doctors Don't Listen. "The skyrocketing cost of health care is in the news every day: $2.7 trillion spent on health care, 18 cents of every dollar, with up to a third of medical costs wasted. But the problem goes much deeper than cost. More than 100,000 Americans die from medical error every year, with the majority of error attributed to mistakes in diagnosis. Every day, patients are going undiagnosed or misdiagnosed despite doctors' increasing reliance on tests, a large number of which are probably unnecessary. Patients feel increasingly out of control and out of touch with their own health. Well-intended doctors try their best, but they, too, are trapped in a dysfunctional system, which, at least on the surface, appears to reward "cookbook medicine," which regards all individuals as alike, and punish good judgment. How can we move past this stalemate? We believe that patients hold the key - by taking control of their health care". This lecture was followed by a book signing and reception. Books were be sold by Simmons College Bookstore Date: 2013-05-23 The FDA and the Remaking of Modern Clinical ResearchJ. Worth Estes History of Medicine Lecture: This year's speaker was Daniel Carpenter, Ph.D., Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies, HU. Dr. Carpenter is the author of Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA (Princeton 2010) and received the 2011 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. His lecture touched upon “how the FDA cultivated a reputation for competence and vigilance throughout the last century, and how this organizational image has enabled the agency to regulate an industry as powerful as American pharmaceuticals while resisting efforts to curb its own authority. He explains how the FDA's reputation and power have played out among committees in Congress, and with drug companies, advocacy groups, the media, research hospitals and universities, and governments in Europe and India. He shows how FDA regulatory power has influenced the way that business, medicine, and science are conducted in the United States and worldwide. Along the way, Carpenter offers new insights into the therapeutic revolution of the 1940s and 1950s; the 1980s AIDS crisis; the advent of oral contraceptives and cancer chemotherapy; the rise of antiregulatory conservatism; and the FDA's waning influence in drug regulation today”. The lecture was sponsored by the Boston Medical Library in the Countway Library of Medicine Date: 2013-05-13 Writing a History of Cancer: An EpilogueThe 37th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture Speaker: Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and an oncologist at the Columbia University Medical Center. After studying immunology at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, he received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He did an oncology fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and was an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. His scientific work addresses the links between normal stem cells and cancer cells.
Date: 2012-10-11 Health Information Lunchtime Lecture Series: Dr. Lisa Wong, author of Scales to Scalpels.Dr. Lisa Wong, Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics and the President of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra spoke about her newly released book, Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine, written with Robert Viagas. The book examines the intersection between music and medicine and the influences of those two arts upon one another. Date: 2012-04-26 Your Medical MindThe Health Information Lunchtime Lecture Series (HILLS) presents: Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You. by: Jerome Groupman, M.D. and Pamela Hartzband, M.D.
Date: 2011-12-09 Alfalfa to Ivy
The Notable Books Series at the Countway Library was pleased to present – Joseph B. Martin, MD, PhD, The Edward R. & Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology at HMS, HU Distinguished Service Professor; Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, HMS, who spoke on the subject of his newly released memoir “Alfalfa to Ivy”. " The last forty years have seen seismic changes in the functions and missions of medical research, medicine, and medical schools in the US. There is no book that describes this range of cosmic changes more clearly or dramatically than Joe Martin’s excellent memoir: Alfalfa to Ivy. Martin describes the revolution in American medicine first, from a bottom-up view as a participant; but, perhaps even more important, Martin can describe these changes from a top-down view since he has been the leader of academic medicine during this period. In this book we learn about the evolution of modern medicine from one of the people who participated in shaping it and who did so with the attempt not to lose sight of the patient, the physician, and the science that drives it all”. - Dr. Eric Kandel, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology & Medicine
Date: 2011-11-30 Bringing Health Information to Life36th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture - This year's speaker was David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS; Mongan Institute for Health Policy, MGH. Dr. Blumenthal served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Obama from 2009-2011. Date: 2011-10-25 Deadly Medicine in the Nazi Era: What Turned Physician Healers into Killers?
Patricia Heberer, Ph.D., Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Director, Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association speakers "Nazi Germany has been described as a “biocracy” whose medical profession justified the killing of millions of “undesirable” individuals through appeals to racist ideology and eugenics. Within this framework, healers and caretakers became killers, and medical research devolved into inhumane and unethical medical experimentation. An important impetus to develop codes of medical ethics in the 20th century was the international reaction to the profound involvement of the German medical community in the Holocaust and other crimes committed in the name of the Third Reich". This talk explored the historical context and legacy of Nazi medicine and the role of the German medical community as planners and implementers of eugenic policies, such as compulsory sterilization and “euthanasia”— the murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities during the Holocaust. The discussion considered the way many German physicians became involved in the criminal actions of the Nazi regime and how their involvement has profoundly affected medical ethics today.
Date: 2011-05-18 Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
The Notable Books Series at the Countway Library presents: Augustus A. White III, MD, Ellen & Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. His talk on: Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care” is the title of his newly released book. Introduction by co-author Dr. David Chanoff. “Dr. Jerome Groopman, author of How Doctors Think says: - "As vital to medicine as mapping the rhythm of the heart and the firing of the nerves is an understanding of the diversity of the human family. Dr. White takes us on a marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul". Date: 2011-05-17 Genetic Determinism Then and Now: Confronting the Legacy of EugenicsThe Harvard Medical School and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum present the Ackerman Symposium on Medicine and Culture,Genetic Determinism Then and Now: Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics: Date: 2011-04-27 The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized MedicineThe Genetics in Medicine Lecture Series at the Countway Library presents: Kevin Davies, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Bio-IT World, founding editor of Nature Genetics spoke on the subject of his new book: The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine. -- “2011 marks not only the tenth anniversary of the first draft of the human genome but also the year that researchers coined the catchphrase “the $1,000 genome.” Remarkably, thanks to astonishing progress in the development of “next-generation” sequencing technologies that are outstripping Moore’s Law, that goal is almost a reality. Companies are already sequencing and annotating complete human genomes for less than $10,000. In addition to a growing number of celebrity genomes, encouraging examples of clinical whole-genome sequencing, particularly in pediatrics and oncology, have been published. The problem ahead is not so much the cost of sequencing but what some are calling “the $1-million interpretation.” Davies will discuss the latest progress and prospects in next-generation sequencing technologies with a focus on their clinical and diagnostic applications, as well as issues surrounding the delivery of that information to the public”.
The lecture was followed by a reception and book signing (books to be sold by the Harvard Coop at the event). For more information email: Roz Vogel at rvogel@hms.harvard.edu or call 617-432-4807. This lecture is jointly sponsored by the Countway Library of Medicine & The Partners Health Care Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine
Date: 2011-03-23 Open Access in Biomedical Leadership: The Time is NowThe 2011 Visiting Lecture on Women and Leadership presented by Barbara Alving, M.D., Director of the National Center for Research Resources at the National Insitutes of Health will speak about open access and leadership. Date: 2011-03-03 Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry BrazeltonThe Notable Books Series of the Countway Library of Medicine - Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton A lecture by Barry Lester, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University and Joshua Sparrow, MD, Director of Special Initiatives, Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Children's Hospital, Boston; Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Remarks by T. Berry Brazelton, world-renowned authority on pediatrics, child development and parent-child relationships; professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, HMS; T. Berry Brazelton, Founder, Brazelton Touchpoints Center.
The lecturers will speak on the subject of their newly released book that celebrates the work and influence of T. Berry Brazelton by bringing together contributions from researchers and clinicians whose own pioneering work has been inspired by Brazelton's foundations in the field of child development
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Countway Library of Medicine, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA A book signing and reception will follow the lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Lahey Room, Countway Library
Contact: Roz Vogel Email rvogel@hms.harvard.edu or call 617-432-4807
Date: 2011-01-13 Relaxation Revolution: Enhancing Your Personal Health Through the Science and Genetics of Mind BodyNotable Books Series presents Dr. Herbert Benson, Mind/Body Medical Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS; Director Emeritus, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, MGH. Date: 2010-11-10 Linking the Practice of Medicine to Public Health: The Key to the Success of Health Care ReformThe 35th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture sponsored by the Boston Medical Library in the Countway Library of Medicine. This year's speaker is John Auerbach, MD, Commissioner of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Date: 2010-10-28 Notable Books Series at the Countway Library - Learning Lessons: Medicine, Economics, Public Policye Notable Books Series at the Countway Library of Medicine Presents: Learning Lessons: Medicine, Economics, and Public Policy A lecture by Rashi Fein, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Economics of Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS Dr. Fein discussed the topic of his newly released book: Learning Lessons. He will discuss “the considerations advisers should have in mind as they develop and select policy alternatives, the ways each of us might want to think about making decisions, and the lessons we should remember in order to minimize avoidable errors. In writing about his experiences in government, the classroom, and private life, Fein offers insights that apply to people responsible for decisions in many kinds of institutions, at all levels of responsibility. His perspective, articulated in this book, is easily summarized: there is more to life and to our nation's welfare than economics. We live in a society, not in an economy.”
Date: 2010-04-20 COUNTWAY LIBRARY NOTABLE BOOK LECTUREApril 7, 2010, 5:30 PM Date: 2010-04-07 Interpreting Genome-Scale Data Using ReactomePresented by Lincoln Stein, MD/PhD Director, Informatics and Biological Computing Platform & Senior Principle Investigator Ontario Institute for Cancer Research "Reactome is a hand-curated knowledgebase of human biological processes and pathways that currently covers nearly 5000 genes. Using machine learning techniques, we have enhanced Reactome with high probability functional interactions to increase coverage to nearly half of the genome. This talk will describe how Reactome is built and maintained, and how it can be used to interpret genome-scale data from cancer and other diseases." Date: 2010-03-30 COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINEA talk titled "Foundations of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research and their Legacy for Present Policy" will be presented by Grischa Metlay: Doctoral Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Date: 2009-12-17 Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our LivesThe Notable Books Series at the Countway Library of Medicine Presents: Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
A lecture by Nicholas Christakis, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Health Care Policy, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, HMS Dr. Christakis spoke on the topic of his newly released book: Connected. "He explained why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm - that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives". Date: 2009-12-10 COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINEA talk titled "Vitalism and Wilhelm Reich: From Hippocrates to Holistic Healing" will be presented by Dr. Sebastian Normandin, Ph.D.: Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of International Health, University of Windsor, Ontario Date: 2009-11-19 Universal Health CareCentury of Debate: Historical Perspectives Date: 2009-10-27 Pay for Performance at the Tipping Point: Will it get us where we want to go?34th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture Speaker - Arnold Epstein, M.D. John H. Foster Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, HSPH Date: 2009-10-21 COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINEA talk titled "Check-Up: A History of the Annual Preventive Examination in America and Its Social Context" will be presented by Drs. Stephen A. Martin, M.D., Ed.M.: Department of Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine and Sara L. Dubow, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Williams College Date: 2009-10-15 COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINEA talk titled "The History of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Boston City Hospital and Boston Medical Center" will be presented by Dr. Michael A. Grodin, M.D.: Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health; Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences, Community Medicine, and Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine Date: 2009-09-17 Notable Book Series: "Masters of Sex"Join critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier at the Countway Library of Medicine, Minot Room, for a presentation and signing of his newest release, Masters of Sex, offering an unprecedented look at William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the nation’s top experts on sex; their pioneering studies of intimacy, and the sexual revolution they inspired. View flyer. Date: 2009-05-14 Conceiving the Pill: Modern Contraception in Historical PerspectiveThe Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library of Medicine invites you to attend a symposium to celebrate the opening of the John C. Rock Papers: "Conceiving the Pill: Modern Contraception in Historical Perspective." This program will place the history of contraceptive technology over the past half-century in its social, pharmaceutical and global health contexts. Date: 2009-03-26 Bridging the Valley of Death, Medical Genetics 2.0, & other Tales of Translational Genomics ResearchCBMI Distinguished Lecture Series: “Bridging the Valley of Death, Medical Genetics 2.0, and other Tales of Translational Genomics Research” Dietrich A. Stephan, PhD, Co-founder for Discovery Research, Translational Genomics Research Institute; Chairman and Senior Investigator, Neurogenics Division, TGen; Chairman, NIH Neuroscience Microarray Consortium; Founder and Director, Navigenics, Inc., spoke on February 11, 2009 at the Center for Biomedical Informatics in the Countway Library of Medicine.
Abstract: Holistic molecular scanning of individuals has become a robust strategy to develop new ways to effectively diagnose and treat disease. The ability to elucidate the root pathogenesis of a host of monogenic and complex genetic disorders is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and the high-throughput application of such technologies to monogenic models of common disease as well as complex genetic disease cohorts will be described. The real challenge is not identifying genetic drivers of disease, but rather understanding how to practically chaperone these discoveries into the clinic. For example, whole-genome association studies provide an order of magnitude better refinement of relevant drug targets/networks than traditional strategies at a fraction of the cost. Recent examples have shown a 75% efficacy rate in pre-clinical models for drugs selected based on WGA results and in silico networking exercises alone. Similarly, linking genetic variants to somatic expression profiling network analysis can provide ever increasing accuracy in node identification and directionality of networks for drug discovery efforts. The diagnostic paradigms that we have used for monogenic disease are also evolving for risk variants of moderate effect size as applied to complex genetic disease predisposition testing. If we accept that prevention, focused screening, and reduction of adverse drug effects for complex genetic disease will compress the time of morbidity for an individual, and that across a population this will improve health and health economics, then we have a mandate to aggressively explore an operational schema to deliver robust and accurate risk information to individuals for actionable common diseases as well as provide preventive medicine clinical decision support to the clinical community. Dr. Stephan will discuss his preventive genomic risk delivery infrastructure and the new paradigm for interpretation of this information that his team has developed. In addition, large prospective trials to show clinical efficacy of genetic risk stratification and intervention are ongoing. Finally, efforts at integration of data streams at the point of care to enable the personalized medicine era to take root to improve public health will be presented.
View a video of the lecture here Date: 2009-02-11 Notable Books Series: "A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era"Lecture - Book Signing - Reception Robert Martensen, MD, PhD, Director, Office of History and Museum, NIH, draws on decades of experience with patients and friends to explore the life cycle of serious illness, from diagnosis to end of life. He connects personal stories with reflections upon mortality, and the value of “cutting-edge” technology in caring for the critically ill. Timely questions emerge: To what extent should efforts to extend human life be made? How has the American health-care system affected treatment of the critically ill? And, what are our doctors’ responsibilities to us as patients, and where do those responsibilities end? Martensen demonstrated how we can maintain dignity and resilience in the face of life’s most daunting circumstances. View a video of the lecture here Date: 2009-01-29 Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness Notable Books Series at the Countway Library most recent lecture on 11/17/08 was given by Nobel Peace Prize winner Bernard Lown, M.D., Professor of Cardiology Emeritus, HSPH, and Cofounder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. His lecture focusedon the subject of his newly released book: Prescription for Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear Madness
Date: 2008-11-17 Balancing Culture, Technology and Medicine: The Case of Childbirth in AmericaThe Boston Medical Library's 33rd Annual Joseph Garland Lecture was held on October 23, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. This year's speaker was Eugene R. Declercq, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Child Health, Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education, Boston Univrsity School of Medicine - Flier in PDF Date: 2008-10-23 Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic ScreeningGenetics in Medicine Lecture Series at the Countway Library of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Speaker: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Ph.D., Professor of History and Sociology of Science at University of Pennsylvania. "The secrets locked in our genes are being revealed, and we find ourselves both enthused and frightened about what that portends. We look forward to curing disease by alleviating suffering; but, we also worry about delving too deeply into the double helix. Abuses perpetrated by eugenicists continue to taint our feelings about genetic screening. Dr. Cowan persuasively argues that new forms of screening are both morally right and politically acceptable".
View a flyer here. Date: 2008-09-16 Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine"Overdosed America, provides detailed arguments on the false conclusions reached from research on such topics as the prevention of coronary heart disease and hip fractures. Abramson explains why those conclusions are distorted: the web of interlocking monetary relationships among the pharmaceutical industry, academic research physicians, the Food and Drug Administration, leaders within the National Institutes of Health, and some of the hallowed organizations that promulgate evidence-based medicine—with the nation's prestigious medical journals often serving as unwitting collaborators in the distortions... Moreover, responsibility for the overdosing of America goes far beyond the drug industry, resting equally with the nation's physicians." View a flyer in PDF View a video of the lecture here Date: 2008-06-03 Notable Books Series - "Inhuman Research: Medical Experiments in German Concentration CampsAlfred Pasternak, MD, is Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles CA. He is a world expert on medical issues and the Holocaust having lectured and published extensively on medical issues with respect to the German concentration camps during WWII. Dr. Pasternak, a child survivor of Auschwitz, investigates this relatively little known chapter of Holocaust history by examining the existing records documenting Nazi human medical experiments and the lives of the doctors who conducted them. His talk focused on the transformation of German medicine during the Nazi period, the types of experiments conducted and the ethical evaluation of these events. The lecture took place on May 13, 2008 4:00 p.m., at Countway Library. View a flyer in PDF A video of the lecture is available here. Date: 2008-05-13 Why Women Can't Be Doctors: The Medieval Origins of Women's Marginal Status in MedicineMonica Green, Professor of History, Arizona State University Countway Fellow, 2007-2008 Date: 2008-05-08 Just Health: Meeting Health Needs FairlyNotable Books Series – Lectures at the Countway Library of Medicine: “Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly”. On April 30, 2008, Dr. Norman Daniels, Professor of Population Ethics and Health at Harvard School of Public Health talked about what we owe each other by way of protecting our health through medicine, public health, and broader social determinants; addressed practical issues that affect both developed and developing countries, integrating concerns about justice with an interest in global health. View a flyer. A video of the lecture is available here Date: 2008-04-30 Celebrating Grete L. BibringNovember 15, 2007, 4 to 7 PM. We wcelebrated the life of Harvard Medical School's first woman full professor, Grete L. Bibring. One of the members of the 'second generation' of Freudian scholars, Bibring played a leading role in the integration of psychiatry with general patient care. As a teacher, researcher, clinician, and administrator, Bibring influenced a generation of medical students, psychiatric residents, physicians, social workers, and nurses, internationally. An exhibit of materials from the soon-to-be opened Bibring collection was on display, and a distinguished panel discussed the contributions of Dr. Bibring to psychiatry and medicine. Panel members included: - Sanford Gifford, PhD, Director of Archives at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute - Evelynn Hammonds, PhD, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University - Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D., CEO emeritus of Beth Israel Hospital and CareGroup and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School - Margaret Rossiter, PhD, Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. Link to article in Focus http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2007/113007/bulletin.shtml View Streaming video: View Pictures: Date: 2007-11-15 32nd Annual Joseph Garland LectureThis year's 32nd Annual Joseph Garland Lecture, jointly sponsored by the Boston Medical Library and the Massachusetts Medical Society was entitled ""Healthcare Underwater: The Katrina Experience"" and was presented by Dr. James Aiken, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health at the LSU Health Science Center. Dr. Aiken also serves as Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness to the Medical Center of Louisiana. He has over 20 years experience in healthcare disaster management. The lecture was held on October 24, 2007. A video of the event is available here. Lecture – Book Signing - ReceptionOn May 24, 2007 the Notable Books Series at the Countway Library of Medicine hosted a talk by Arnold S. Relman, MD, Professor Emeritus at HMS; former editor-in-chief of the new England Journal of Medicine. The lecture focused on his newly published book: A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care. View streaming video of this event. For more information see the event flyer or contact Roz Vogel, 617-432-4807 or rvogel@hms.harvard.edu.
Date: 2007-05-24 Linnaeus Lecture May 14 2007Tercentenary Anniversary Celebration of Carl Linnaeus, 1707-1778 - Born in Sweden, he was also known as Carl von Linne or Carolus Linnaeus, and is often called the Father of Taxonomy. Trained as a physician, Linnaeus would garner lasting fame for his work in natural history. His system for naming, ranking and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime, even those opposed to the philosophical and theological roots of his work. For further information on Carl Linnaeus explore http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm, and http://www.linnean.org/.
The symposium program centered on the evolving notions of taxonomy, medical and otherwise, from Linnaeus' time to present. Symposium speakers were: Karen Reeds, PhD, Guest Curator, Linnaeus & America, American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia spoke on Carolus Linnaeus, MD, The Naturalist as Physician Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in medicine and pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine and Director, Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, San Jose, CA spoke on Taxonomizing Diseases: Exploring Genomic Nosologies Using Translational Bioinformatics James Hendler, PhD, Tetherless World Constellation Chair, Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY spoke on Taxonomy, vocabulary and ontology: Linnaeus and the World Wide Web Linnaeus Reeds I of III: View streaming video of this event.
Date: 2007-05-14 7th Annual J. Worth Estes History of Medicine LectThe 7th Annual J. Worth Estes History of Medicine Lecture sponsored by the Boston Medical Library was held on May 10, 2007. This year's speaker was David M. Oshinsky, Ph.D., the Jack S. Blanton Professor of History, University of Texas. Professor Oshinsky is the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner in the history category for his book, Polio: An American Story. His book details America’s obsession with the disease in the 1940's and 1950's. With no known cause and no available cure, polio was a frightening disease that held America in its grips until a vaccine was found. The title of Professor Oshinsky's talk is: "POLIO: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Campaign". The lecture was held on in the Armenise Amphitheatre, Harvard Medical School and was open to the public. View streaming video of this event.
Date: 2007-05-10 Notable Book Series at the CountwayThe Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, by Allan M. Brandt, Ph.D. April 25, 2007 5:00-6:00 pm, Countway Library of Medicine, lecture in the Minot Room; 6:00 - 7:00 pm, book signing/reception in the Lahey Room. The Notable Books Series at the Countway Library of Medicine presents Allan Brandt, Ph.D., Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, HMS and Professor of the History of Science, FAS, who will talk about his newly published book "The Cigarette Century". "This is the story of how greed and self-interest perverted industry, science and politics to create and prolong an enormous man-made epidemic. It is a fascinating piece of American history, prodigious in its research and a pleasure to read. Like all good hsitory books, it has resonance today...." by Tracy Kidder For more information see the event flyer or contact Roz Vogel, 617-432-4807 or rvogel@hms.harvard.edu
Date: 2007-04-25 Genetics in Medicine Lecture SeriesD.T. Max, essayist and journalist, will talk about his recent book "The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery". Named "one of the five best non-fiction books of 2006" (Salon.com), D.T. Max tells the story of prions, ordinary proteins that sometimes go wrong. The lecture will be held on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. in the Minot Room, 5th floor of Countway Library followed by a book signing and reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Lahey Room. Please contact Roz Vogel at rvogel@hms.harvard.edu or 617-432-4807 for more information.
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