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WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINARS (WIPS)
Unless otherwise stated the WIPS will be held as follows:
Time:
3:00 pm -5:00 pm
Location:
Unless otherwise mentioned, all seminars are in Building 45 (Natcher), National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892. The specific room is listed below.
Format:
Papers are pre-circulated one week before the seminar. The seminar itself will open with a 5-10 minute introduction by the presenter. The remaining time will be devoted to discussion of the paper.
If you would like to participate in the WIPS, please email the organizer David Cantor, Ph.D. at cantord@mail.nih.gov and ask to be added to the mailing list. Please indicate which presentations you will be attending. Papers are only circulated to those attending seminars.
10/06/09
Translational Research: Of What? By Whom? For What Purposes?
Robert Martensen, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
10/20/09
The Politicization of Biomedicine: The NIH in the Post-Shannon Years
Buhm Soon Park, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
10/29/09
A Social Autopsy of the TGN1412 Clinical Trial: Northwick Park, Research Ethics Committees and the Normalisation of Deviance
Adam Hedgecoe, Associate Director, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), Cardiff University
Note: This seminar is on a different day (Thursday) and in different location to other seminars (Building 10, CRC Conference Room 3-1608)
11/03/09
The Institutionalization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the NIH
Eric Boyle, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Conference Room B
11/17/09
The Organized Search for the Oncogene
Doogab Yi, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Room 3AS13A
12/01/09
The Gospel of Simplicity and Nutrition Writers’ Responses to Modern Foodways
Chin Jou, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Conference Room C1/C2
12/15/09
Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis, and Etiological Uncertainty in Twentieth-Century American Medicine
Todd Olszewski, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Conference Room C1/C2
01/12/10
Not Guilty by Reason of Neuroscience: Roper v. Simmons and the Influence of Recent Neuroscientific Discoveries on Jurisprudence
Brian Casey, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Conference Room C1/C2
01/26/10
“Ethics in situ,” Chapter 4 of a book manuscript, Behind Closed Doors: The Genesis and Development of IRBs, forthcoming
Laura Stark, Office of History, National Institutes of Health and Wesleyan University
Building 45, Conference Room B
02/09/10
The Sentimental World Picture: Humanitarianism and the Lost Films of the American Red Cross
Jennifer Horne, Department of Media Studies, The Catholic University of America
Building 45, Conference Room B
02/23/10
Who is the Nanobiologist? Discipline and Disciplinary Identity in the Collaboration of the Nanodrug Characterization
Sharon Ku, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Room 3AS13A
03/09/10
Confronting that Elephant in the Room: Addressing the National Institutes of Health in the History of American Health Research
Sejal Patel, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Room 3AS13A
03/23/10
The Spectacular Failure of Centoxin and How it Changed Corporate Biotechnology and the FDA
Shera A. Moxley, Carnegie Mellon University
Building 45, Room 3AS13A
04/06/10
The “Moment of Recovery” in Twentieth Century American Cancer Campaigns
David Cantor, Office of History, National Institutes of Health
Building 45, Room 3AS13A
04/20/10
Colonialism and Disease Control in Prewar Hong Kong
Ka-che Yip, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Building 45, Conference Room B
05/04/10
"Keeping Well": Using History for Public Health Education in Mid-Twentieth Century America
Graham Mooney, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Building 45, Room 3AS13A
05/18/10
Deaf Futurism, New Realism, and the History of Cochlear Implants
Mara Mills, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania
Building 45, Room 3AS13A
SEMINARS 2008/2009
