The National Library of Medicine has announced its 2022 NLM History Talks, a series of eleven, one-hour long presentations centered on projects using and promoting NLM’s historical medical collections.
Projects utilizing these historical medical records are a great way to better understand the current climate of the health sciences and how our education and professional standards have been created.
The talks highlight a broad range of work in fields spanning biomedicine, the social sciences, the humanities and beyond. The NLM has made a commitment to centering the voices and experiences of marginalized and historically ignored communities. These talks are furthering that mission by openly and honestly discussing the issues of past medical collections.
All NLM History Talks are free and can be streamed live through NIH (National Institutes of Health) Videocasting. Questions for the presenter can be sent via email during the live stream. All past NLM History Talks are archived and available for viewing here.
You can also explore interviews with NLM History Talk speakers on NLM’s Circulating Now.
Check out the 2022 NLM History Talks schedule below:
- Thursday February 10, 12 PM MST: What History Reveals: Slavery and the Development of U.S. Gynecology, Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD
- Thursday March 17, 12 PM MST: George Deacon and the Circulation of Homeopathic Therapies in Peru (1880-1915), Patricia Palma, PhD
- Thursday April 28, 12 PM MST: The Measure of Black (Un)Fitness: Legacies of Slavery in the Early Eugenics Movement, Ryan A. Hogarth, PhD
- Thursday May 5, 12 PM MST: A Laboratory of Humanitarianism: Military and Civilian Captivity during the First World War, Matthew Stibbe, PhD
- Thursday June 23, 12 PM MST: Meleau-Ponty, Descartes, and the Meaning of Painting, William D. Adams, PhD
- Thursday July 14, 9 AM MST: Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections, Samuel Thorpe PhD
- Thursday August 11, 12 PM MST: Atlantic Antidote: Race, Gender, and the Birth of the First Vaccine, Farren Yero, PhD
- Thursday September 15, 12 PM MST: Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South, Kylie M. Smith, PhD
- Thursday October 27, 12 PM MST: Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease, John Mathew, PhD
- Thursday November 17, 12 PM MST: What’s in a Web Archive Collection? Summarization and Discovery of Archives Webpages, Michele C. Weigle, PhD