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CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS REARING HUMAN THOROUGHBREDS

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of the University of Virginia Health System will continue its' 1999-2000 History of the Health Sciences lecture series on Wednesday, December 1, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Jordan Hall auditorium. Gregory Michael Dorr, doctoral candidate from the history department at the University of Virginia, will present the lecture Rearing Human Thoroughbreds: Eugenics, Public Health and Medical Education at the University of Virginia.

Dorr is a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow and an Honorary Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellow at U.Va.

All lectures are free and open to the public. The next presentation in the History of Health Sciences lecture series will be given on Wednesday, February 9, by Martin S. Pernick, Ph.D., professor of history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

The History of the Health Sciences lecture series is sponsored each year by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Continuing Medical Education Program as an educational service for the University of Virginia Health System and interested citizens in the community.

For more information, please contact Joan Klein at (804) 924-0052 or jre@virginia.edu.

November 19, 1999