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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE,
History of Medicine Division Seminar - Women's History Month Program
Monday, March 31, 2008, 2-3:30pm
Lister Hill Auditorium, Bldg 38A, NLM;
Bethesda, MD
"Reading the Written Body: Our Bodies, Ourselves."
Susan Wells, PhD, Temple University
All are Welcome
Movements of the sixties were affected by the new technologies of the
decade that made publication cheaper, easier, and more participatory.
These technologies fostered new practices of publication: collaboration,
work by amateurs, and new graphic techniques established a vernacular
style of the counterculture, especially in underground and alternative
newspapers. Combine this with the lack of reliable, understandable, and
easily available information on women's reproductive health, and the
result was the publication of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a ground-breaking
book that remains in print today.
Note: The next history of medicine seminar will be on Wednesday, April
16, 2008 from 4-5:30pm in the Lister Hill Visitor's Center NLM's Bldg
38A. In a special program co-sponsored by the Office of NIH History
and the Washington Society for the History of Medicine, Dr. Guenter B.
Risse will speak on "Bridging The East-West Divide: Genesis Of A Chinese
Hospital In San Francisco."
Sign language interpretation is provided. Individuals with disabilities
who need reasonable accommodation to participate may contact Stephen
Greenberg at (301-435-4995), e-mail greenbes@mail.nih.gov, or the
Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).
Due to current security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised
to consult the NIH Visitors and Security website:
http://www.nih.gov/about/visitorsecurity.htm
Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD
Coordinator of Public Services
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
301-435-4995
greenbes@mail.nih.gov