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CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY PRESENTS HISTORY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES LECTURE SERIESThe Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of the University of Virginia Health System will kickoff its' 1999-2000 History of the Health Sciences lecture series on Wednesday, October 27, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Jordan Hall auditorium. Susan E. Lederer, assistant professor in the history of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, will present the first lecture Making Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Medical Science.Lederer was the visiting curator for the exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, at the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health in 1997. Lederer has written a book entitled Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War. Lederer will also present a lecture with James Hunter Groninger, a U.Va. medical student, entitled Frankenstein Revisited, at the U.Va. School of Medicine Medical Center Hour on Wednesday, October 27, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Jordan Hall auditorium. 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, December 1, by Gregory Michael Dorr, doctoral candidate from the history department at the University of Virginia. 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. October 13, 1999 |