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From Our Partners: ‘The Fourth Estate in Medicine’: The History of the Medical Journal and the Medical Profession in the United States, 1797-Present’

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This Thursday, check out the fourth (and final) lecture of the Fall 2020 Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine:

‘The Fourth Estate in Medicine’: The History of the Medical Journal and the Medical Profession in the United States, 1797-Present’ with speaker Scott H. Podolsky, M.D., Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Podolsky is a historian of 19th- and 20th-century therapeutics and medical evolution, with a focus on the history of antibiotics, the evolving authority of the controlled clinical trial, and relationships among physicians, medical journals, the pharmaceutical industry, and governmental agencies.

It is from 4:00-5:30 on Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94358234620?pwd=M2pIOEh5ajc3dVczUXoyRThPdjdwUT09. No registration required.

The MHL On….

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…turkey! The disambiguation gets a leetle ambiguated here, since the search doesn’t know if you’re talking about Turkey (the country), turkey (the bird), some other geographical feature including the word ‘turkey,’ or a colloquial use of ‘turkey,’ such as ‘talk turkey.’ You’ll also notice we have some texts in Turkish which is very awesome and gives yet another layer of results to the whole set.

Thank You!

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We would like to thank all our great speakers who showed up last Friday to make our first conference great! It was wonderful to hear about so many projects making amazing use of our resources; we can’t wait to hear how every one develops in the future.

Thank you also to everyone who showed up to participate and ask questions — it wouldn’t have been the same day without you.

If you missed the live conference, don’t worry: we’re working on editing and captioning the recording to get it up on YouTube as soon as possible. Watch this space!

Thursday!

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You have until Thursday to grab your free ticket for our 10th anniversary conference.

The conference runs from 11 to 5 (EST) and you can check out the full program with links to all the abstracts below!

11:00am-12:00pmWelcome and Keynote 

  • Welcome: Emily R. Novak Gustainis, President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University
  • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jaipreet Virdi, Assistant Professor for the Department of History at the University of Delaware
    Digitized Disability Histories

12:00pm-1:00pm

Presentations

Moderator: Robin Naughton, Vice-President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Assistant Professor, Web and Digital Services Librarian, Queens College, CUNY

1:00-2:30Break

1:15pm-2:15Lunch and Learn
Moderator: Polina Ilieva, Board Member, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; AUL for Archives and Special Collections, University Archivist, UC San Francisco

2.30pm – 3.30pm
Presentations

Moderator: Beth Lander, Secretary/Treasurer, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Managing Director, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)

3:30-3:45Break

3.45pm – 4.45pm
Presentations

Moderator: Melissa Grafe, Board Member, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Ph.D, Head of the Medical Historical Library, John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical Historical, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University

4:45pm-5:00pm

Closing

  • Closing: Robin Naughton, Vice-President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc.; Assistant Professor, Web and Digital Services Librarian, Queens College, CUNY