Medical History and Bioethics
This is an important time for the Medical History and Bioethics Department as we move to integrate our research and teaching with the ongoing transformation of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine to the School of Medicine and Public Health. Looking toward the future requires both an understanding of our past and insight and analysis of our present. MHB faculty members, drawn from the disciplines of history, medicine, anthropology, law, philosophy, public health, and disability studies, actively pursue questions and research agendas about the social relations of patients and their families, physicians and other care-givers, and policymakers and legislatures.
May 19: Walton Schalick, Dean Robert N. Golden, Postmaster
The United States Postal Service will be unveiling a new stamp honoring "Mary Woodard Lasker" (1900-1994), an ardent advocate of medical research for major diseases including cancer, heart disease, stroke, and AIDS, and founder of the Lasker Foundation on Tuesday, May 19, at 9:30 am in the WIMR atrium. The release of the stamp coincides with a renewed federal commitment to biomedical research, including additional funding for the National Institutes of Health, which Mary Lasker helped build. A short program is planned involving brief comments by the Postmaster, Dean Robert N. Golden, and SMPH historian Dr. Walt Schalick.
May 20: Susan Lederer
CHSTM, University of Manchester: "Banking on the Body: American Commerce in Flesh and Blood in the 20th Century"
May 26: Susan Lederer
CHSTM, University of Manchester: "Duck and Cover: Medical Preparedness for Atomic Attack in Cold War America"
May 29: Walton Schalick
Grand Rounds, 12p - 1p, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Medical College of Wisconsin, "Putting PM&R in Perspective: Policy, Ethics and History in Pediatric Rehabilitation" Froedtert West, 1st Floor at the Dean Roe Auditorium
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March 3: Alexandra Stern
Colloquium: "The Entangled History of Eugenics, Medical Genetics and Genetic Counseling."
Brown Bag: "Justice and Profound Cognitive Disability," at 12:15 in room 1490 MSC
March 24: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Colloquium: "Vernacular Science: The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 and Early American Scientific Imagination."
March 31: Jane Maienschein
Colloquium: "Regenerative Medicine and Society: Translation, Transplantation, and Stem Cells in Historical Context"
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